Depardieu, Instagram and Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘adorable side’

... similar. It is interesting to note that even when these articles appear in more ‘serious’ newspapers such as The Guardian or The Daily Telegraph, their purpose does not seem to be to communicate any new or ‘real’ knowledge about Chechnya or Kadyrov, as, perhaps, an article on the French President Francois Hollande might. Instead, they are written as pieces whose primary function is to amuse and engage the reader, with some contextualising information describing Kadyrov as a ‘despot’,...