Chechnya is dominated by the personality cult around Akhmat Kadyrov, the first president of the Russian federal subject following its reintegration during the Second Chechen War. His 2004 assasination saw the republic fall to Ramzan, his son. Quickly building up a mythologized image of his father, Ramzan placed Akhmat’s likeness on state flags, while coining the regime’s barely unofficial slogan «Akhmat Sila!» (Akhmat is strength!) to accompany its idea of following «Akhmat’s path» (a supposed ideological guideline), and the renaming of many organizations after his father.
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