Chechnya’s gay purge tyrant – who said COVID-19 patients ‘should be executed’ – mounts pathetic defence after ‘hospitalisation’

Homophobic Chechen tyrant Ramzan Kadyrov made his first public appearance since rumours emerged that he had been hospitalised with coronavirus. The autocratic leader, who orchestrated the region’s brutal ‘gay purge’, was reported to have earned the title of the first Russian official to fall seriously ill...