# Ramzan Kadyrov Head of the Chechen Republic since 2007, ruling as a personalist warlord with a paramilitary force loyal to himself and a direct patronage relationship to [[Vladimir Putin]] rather than to the federal bureaucracy. He is under U.S. sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act and has been repeatedly documented by human-rights organizations for torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings. Kadyrov's circle is one of the clearest illustrations of who profits from [[Russian Deprivatization]]. After Danone's Russian unit was placed under state "temporary management" by decree in July 2023, it was run by **Yakub Zakriev**, Kadyrov's nephew and a former Chechen agriculture minister; the business was sold in May 2024 at roughly a 56% discount to its market value, costing Danone about €1.2 billion. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[Russian Deprivatization Timeline]]. Expand with the Kadyrovtsy, the Ukraine war deployments, and the succession question.