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Chechen leader Kadyrov to deliver speech in Russian parliament

27 October 2010 04:54 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov will address the Russian parliament’s upper house on Wednesday, the Federation Council’s spokesman said, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
Kadyrov will deliver his speech in the parliament as part of Days of the Chechen Republic in the upper house.
The Chechen parliament spokesman, Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov, will also address Russian parliamentarians.
The Kremlin has claimed to have brought stability to Chechnya, which saw two brutal separatist wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, but an audacious militant attack on the Chechen parliament in Grozny earlier this month prompted fears that the Islamist underground had been rejuvenated.
The once war-torn republic has seen relative calm in recent years under Kadyrov, a former militant turned Kremlin ally whom critics have accused of cultivating a personality cult and involvement in human rights abuses.