Rumors about the critical state of Ramzan Kadyrov’s health and the organization of the succession in Grozny intensify after the Chechen president did not attend Vladimir Putin’s speech to the nation on February 21 and after a few days later, on March 3 , the Russian president received his 17-year-old son, Akhmad (who bears the same name as his grandfather, the pro-independence activist who later joined the Russians) in the Kremlin accompanied by the Kremlin’s climate adviser, Ruslan Edelgeriyev. Many have associated the episode with when in 2004 Putin received, shortly after the assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov, Ramzan Kadyrov. Last September, nephew Akhmad Kadyrov was appointed assistant to the Chechen president and then president of the Chechen section of Putin’s organization ‘Movement of the First’.
According to Bild, Kadyrov father is suffering from a serious kidney problem. A nephrologist would have been sent from Abu Dhabi to treat him. Another theory reported by the blogs speaks of a poisoning of Kadyrov, in the wake of a tradition for the truth inaugurated in Chechnya well before that against Aleksei Navalny. But on March 13 Kadyrov had flown to Moscow to meet with Putin to silence the rumours. “I’m sorry to disappoint those who toy with the hope that I’m incurably sick,” he said at the time.
A few years ago, sources from Kadyrov’s circle told Novaya Gazeta about the president’s ailment with a 30 percent mortality rate. Since last June, there has been a rapid worsening of the disease. Which according to the sources of the Russian newspaper can lead to excruciating pain, which prevents sleep and cannot be treated even with the strongest painkillers, and malfunctioning of the kidneys and lungs. Kadyrov’s activity has noticeably decreased. Just last June, Kadyrov’s three sons, Akhmad, Adam and Zelimkan, began attending government meetings and visits to the republic, reported by local media, and were also sent to war zones in Ukraine.