Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Chechnya Vows Revenge After Biden Picks Personal Fight; 'You Targeted My Mother, Will Now Crush...'" video.

  1. By sanctioning a Chechen warlord?
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  2. LOL, "against an elderly woman". It is Kadyrov who has placed his mother as the head in name only, to avoid sanctions. The real head is Kadyrov himself. RadioFE: All Chechens are required to contribute a percentage of their salary to the Akhmad Kadyrov Regional Public Fund. Chechen officials have rejected that claim as untrue. But the news portal Caucasian Knot has spoken to Chechen teachers, medical personnel, and police officers who confirm that a percentage of their monthly salary is routinely deducted. The Russian Kommersant daily has also researched links between the Akhmad Kadyrov fund and various commercial entities owned by Ramzan Kadyrov's mother, Aymani, or his trusted associates. According to The Family, budget-sector employees in Chechnya are required to forfeit at least 10 percent of their monthly salary, employees of private companies up to one-third, and business owners up to 50 percent of their profits to the fund. The total sum contributed in this way, which is not taxed or audited, is estimated at between 3 billion and 4 billion rubles ($55 million-$73 million) per month. By contrast, Chechnya's official budget revenues for 2015 are declared to be more than 57 billion rubles, including over 20 billion rubles in subsidies from the federal government. The eponymous fund was established in June 2004, some seven weeks after Akhmad Kadyrov's death. Kommersant describes it as "one of the least transparent NGOs" in the Russian Federation. The fund has never been audited and does not comply with the legal requirement that all NGOs receiving over 3 million rubles per year must submit accounts to the federal Justice Ministry. (A Justice Ministry official told Kommersant that the Akhmad Kadyrov fund is exempt from doing so because its accounts are published in the Chechen media -- but they are not.)
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