January 6, 2009
Chechen PM in sauna sex scandal
His public image as a devout Muslim warrior who frets about the morals of Chechnya's peoplehas been carefully constructed by spin doctors. But Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's pro-Moscow Prime Minister, has become ensnared in an embarrassing sex scandal that has made his loud moral preaching appear rather hollow.
There on the coffee table, next to the beer-box model of a sauna he plans to build, you could see it plain as day. His foot.
Three in court after sauna raid
Three people appeared in court accused of running a brothel in which 19 foreign women were found during a police raid.
