The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was recently hit with US sanctions over human rights abuses such as his government’s torture and “purge” of gay men. But there’s one thing about the sanctions that seems to particularly bother Kadyrov: Losing his Instagram account.
“The closure of his Instagram account is a matter of Kadyrov’s image, of his prestige,” Oleg Orlov, the founder of a Russian human rights organization called Memorial, told The Guardian.
