The Putin of Chechnya’s Flair for Instagram – The New Yorker

The feed is a cross between a Presidential news service and a Hollywood film studio; his posts can be bureaucratic, theatrical, or seemingly playful. A photo of Chechen ministers meeting to discuss health-care services lives alongside a trailer for a supposedly forthcoming action movie, in which Kadyrov shoots a machine gun into the air. A shot of Kadyrov playing in a pile of autumn leaves calls on his followers to post similar photos with the hashtag #ЗолотаяОсень, or “GoldenFall.”