September 18, 2023

What’s new in the world of barbarians?

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According to the New York Post, citimg reports, a top Chechen warlord has been having some health problems:

Days before ruthless Chechnyan warlord and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov was reportedly hospitalized in a coma, he was accused of burying his personal doctor alive in retaliation for trying to poison him.

The Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, which claims to have inside information on Russian security forces, said on Sept. 10 that sources alleged Elkhan Suleymanov, former deputy prime minister of Chechnya and Kadyrov’s personal physician, had been targeted by the man called “Putin’s attack dog.”

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“There is talk that [Suleymanov] was killed and buried alive in the ground,” the channel, which was cited by Ukrainian media and Ukraine’s internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko, Newsweek reported.

Suleymanov’s death has not been confirmed, but the reports said he has not been since October 2022, when he was dismissed from his post as deputy prime minister. 

Which has a whiff of Stalin’s anti-Semitic “doctor’s plot” shortly before his death, where, wild with paranoia, the vozhd accused his own doctors of trying to kill him and his lieutenants from 1948-1953.

Bad things happen to doctors when the boss comes from the Caucasus.

It’s weird stuff, though, given that Kadyrov is or was only 49 and like any self-respecting oligarch of the Russian empire, had an estimated worth of $100 million. Kadyrov came to power as the top Chechen warlord in the wake of Russia’s second Chechen war around 2002. He let Putin coopt him, became a very rich and powerful man in those parts, was able to spend billions to rebuild the destroyed Chechen homeland, and not surprisingly, was Putin’s fiercest loyalist as well as his “attack dog.”

He also had an army. Like the late Wagner Group mercenary chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose plane was blown out of the sky last month, Kadyrov has been a linchpin for czar of czars Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine, supplying tens of thousands of brutal troops from the Chechen front to maul the Ukrainians. Prigozhin ran the convict side of the war, dispatching an army of thugs from the post-Soviet remnants of the GULag Archipelago, to do Putin’s dirty work in Ukraine, often going where Russian troops couldn’t. They’ve taken tremendous casualties. Prigozhin challenged Putin’s military leaders in June, humiliating Putin, and got rubbed out for it after he was supposedly forgiven for calling it all off. There’s no forgiveness with a mafiya boss, or an angry czar, so what happened, happened.