Europe’s Most Violent, Instagram-Obsessed Leader

This is the Chechen Republic’s Instagram tyrant, Ramzan Kadyrov. For more than a decade, he has murdered his rivals, tortured his critics and terrorized the country’s population with a heavily armed militia he calls the ‘Kadyrovtsy’. More recently, he has waged a brutal genocide on LGBTQ people living in Chechen Republic in Southern Russia. This is Dogs of War, a show about the world’s most dangerous conflicts and the people driving them presented by Sahar Zand. Check out the VICE World News playlist for global reporting you won’t find elsewhere: Watch more from this series: The Rise of Brazil’s Biggest Prison Gang Gangs and God: India’s Warrior Priest Subscribe to VICE News here: Check out VICE News for more: