Kremlin via Reuters
A day after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov bizarrely published a video of his 15-year-old son beating up a man in police custody to show how “proud” he was of the teen, the Kremlin has preemptively sought to shut down any talk of the scandal.
Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s official spokesperson, told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday, before even being asked about the controversy: “I will not comment on the story with Kadyrov’s son.” When asked to clarify why he was refusing to comment, Peskov said simply, “I don’t want to.”
Kadyrov, on the other hand, was apparently unable to stop talking about the situation. According to media personality Ksenia Sobchak, the Chechen leader video-called her Monday and talked her ear off for 40 minutes, first demanding to know why she’d written about rumors he was dead, and why she had spoken of his son on her Telegram channel.