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

... treatment of Kadyrov is how it relates to wider discourses around masculinity and is therefore comparable with portrayals of Vladimir Putin and his allies. Kadyrov is treated by the UK media in a similar manner to Putin; although less well known than the Russian President, Kadyrov is also seen as a figure of fun, a foreign despot, a leader of a far-flung republic who shares ludicrous pictures of himself weight-lifting, shooting a gun or interacting with wild animals with his thousands of online followers. As these photographs ...