In the video, Kadyrov exercises with “other guys who like to do sports” and shows off his fighting skills, jokingly sparring with his mentor Umar Daudov, while a song that ends with the words “God grant that you may live forever” plays in the background.
The new video clip appeared shortly after the “Novaya Gazeta” article about the fact that since September of last year, the administration of the President of Russia has started developing scenarios to replace R. Kadyrov if he dies due to a progressive illness. According to the newspaper, in 2019 he was diagnosed with complications of pancreatitis – pancreatic necrosis and pancreatic ascites. The vast majority of such cases end in death.
It is not the first time that the Chechen leader has tried to deny rumors about his illness by creating stories that emphasize his supposedly excellent physical condition.
When it emerged that his plane had flown to Moscow three times in September and that cars with Chechen number plates had been spotted outside the Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Presidential Administration in Moscow, he released a video shot in Grozny in which he said he had “completed the 11km walking limit” and wished “everyone , who are unable to distinguish truth from lies on the Internet, take a walk in the fresh air” and “get a handle on their thoughts”.
Last week, on April 18, Kadyrov published a 30-second video of himself lifting a stone. “Keeping fit,” he wrote then.
Instead of allaying doubts about Kadyrov’s health, the new video drew mockery online on Tuesday. “Kadyrov made everyone laugh again with new photos and a video taken in the gym, where he sweats lifting 7 and 14 kilogram weights. What is this video for and why did Ramzan think there are so many idiots around?” the rights group wrote gulagu.net.
It is noted that any amateur athlete (let alone professionals) will only need to watch the video for a minute to understand the level of physical fitness of R. Kadyrov.
“He’s just a badass. This means that he either doesn’t actually work out and hit the gym for the first time in 10 years, or he’s seriously ill. In any case, it is obvious that the idea to shoot the video failed, and its authors presented R. Kadyrov as a clown and a physically weak person,” he emphasized. gulagu.net.
