Chechnya’s reality of fear and abuse will keep eroding the facade Ramzan Kadyrov has created.
![Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends ceremony to confer the ''City of Military Glory'' title to five Russian towns, at the Kremlin [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/a422e9ee77124a08989f6f0144e9d3ba_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Anton Ryzhov is a lawyer for the NGO Committee Against Torture, based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Chechnya’s reality of fear and abuse will keep eroding the facade Ramzan Kadyrov has created.
![Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends ceremony to confer the ''City of Military Glory'' title to five Russian towns, at the Kremlin [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/a422e9ee77124a08989f6f0144e9d3ba_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)