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When I met human rights activist Oyub Titiev two years ago in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, I was investigating the propaganda tools used by the strongman leader of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, to promote his regime and to cover up widespread rights violations in the region. Titiev declined to be interviewed on the topic, […]
