Daghestan
Kadyrov causes outrage in Daghestan with comments on Imam Shamil
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has provoked outrage in neighbouring Daghestan by criticising Imam Shamil, the leader of the resistance to the Russian Empire’s 19th-century conquest of the North-east Caucasus. His comments caused an angry reaction in Daghestan, where the speaker of parliament, the muftiate, and many on social media, criticised the comments. The dispute comes on the backdrop of an ongoing territorial dispute between the two Russian republics, with suspicions in Daghe
