ChChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been suffering from “pancreatic necrosis” for more than 5 years, Novaya Gazeta reported. The publication cited anonymous sources at the presidential hospital in Moscow, where Kadyrov was said to have been treated.
Kadyrov’s deterioration has reportedly prompted the Kremlin to begin work on a succession plan to maintain stability in the North Caucasian republic.
According to Novaya Gazeta, in January 2019, doctors initially diagnosed Kadyrov with acute pancreatic necrosis, a serious condition that can lead to death.
The following month, Kadyrov announced by decree that he had briefly handed over his powers to the speaker of the regional parliament without disclosing his illness. In January 2020, he issued another decree for a similar brief transfer of power.
The publication reported that Kadyrov’s health began to rapidly deteriorate in the spring of 2022, forcing him to miss a number of television appearances and raising suspicions about his periodic absence from public life.
In September 2023, Kadyrov was hospitalized at the elite Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow for about a month with acute lung failure after overdosing on sleeping pills that reportedly helped ease his pain.
Although doctors were able to stabilize his respiratory function at the time, the results of an MRI reportedly led Kadyrov’s family to conclude that he would not be able to make a full recovery.
It was at this time that the Kremlin began developing a succession plan in the event of Kadyrov’s death.
Last fall, unconfirmed reports surfaced on social media that Kadyrov was suffering from kidney problems, prompting him to appear in carefully staged videos in an attempt to dispel the rumours.
Officials have not commented on the Novaya Gazeta report, and its details could not be independently verified.
But there are things that cannot be hidden, namely the dramatic changes in the Chechen’s appearance, behavior and work schedule
Kadyrov is ill and the Kremlin is facing a serious problem – how to most painlessly prepare in the most difficult region of Russia for the change of power that may happen in the near future, the publication summarizes.
In October 2019, Kadyrov disappeared from public view and reports of his deteriorating health due to alleged poisoning appeared on Telegram channels. This was immediately denied on Instagram by Kadyrov’s aide Ahmed Dudayev. He wrote that “Kadyrov is an ordinary person who can also get sick, get bruises, catch the flu and the like.”
In 2019, few people paid attention to the fact that Kadyrov had lost weight, but the sudden weight loss was the first symptom of actively developing pancreatic necrosis.
The disease is painful, difficult to treat and has a high mortality rate.
Since 2019, at least twice a year, Kadyrov undergoes regular, including surgical, procedures at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation. From 2023, the topic became top In the spring of 2022, Kadyrov’s health began to deteriorate sharply, but this topic became “top” in 2023. Even the most inattentive observer could not fail to notice how, as a result of kidney failure and fluid stagnation in the lungs (consequences of the underlying disease), Kadyrov suddenly gained weight, the shape of his abdomen took on all the signs of pancreatogenic ascites, he developed terrible shortness of breath, began to have difficulty speaking, walking slowly, dressing too warmly for the Chechen climate, the publication lists.
At that time, Kadyrov began to disappear from public space at the most inopportune moments.
And in September 2023, he was admitted to intensive care with acute lung failure, which developed as a result of an overdose of the tranquilizer Dormicum. Kadyrov reportedly drank it because he suffered from severe pain, insomnia and increased anxiety. Its excessive use can lead to breathing problems, which necessitated Kadyrov’s hospitalization. He even had to be placed in a medically induced coma.
On September 20, 2023, a video appeared on social networks showing Kadyrov sitting in a hospital room by the bedside of his uncle Magomed. Kadyrov himself in this video does not say anything and barely moves. According to the official version, at that time Kadyrov was in Moscow “on a business trip” and visited his sick uncle. According to the publication, in September of last year, Kadyrov also underwent an MRI of the brain, which showed that the disease had seriously affected him.
Recent footage of the Chechen leader has fueled speculation that the health of the close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has deteriorated, SafeNews wrote.
Rumors about Kadyrov have been circulating for months. He rules the Muslim-majority Russian republic in the Caucasus with an iron fist and has been accused by international organizations of violating human rights. His troops are fighting Russian forces in Ukraine and are fiercely loyal to Putin.
One of the clips, titled “April 1,” shows Kadyrov walking past a construction site at the Palace of Celebrations in Grozny without saying a word. Another short clip shows him giving a brief greeting to the people waiting for him.
Agentstvo notes his reserved demeanor during the evening meal, when everyone applauds loudly and he only lightly taps the table. The agency compared this footage to a similar event in 2021, when he clapped with all his might.
A video of Kadyrov receiving guests from Jordan shows him moving unsteadily, and while visiting the grave of an Islamic theologian, he moves with a cane, the agency said.
In February, for the second year in a row, Kadyrov skipped Putin’s address to Russia’s Federal Assembly, which is attended by senior government officials.
The Russian daily Kommersant reported that Kadyrov had caught a cold.
Source – Novaya Gazeta/Translation: SafeNews
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