Public humiliation: Chechen leader's simple strategy to control social media

Ramzan Kadyrov is punishing ordinary people who criticise his rule with televised shamings, as well as detentions and abuseAishat Inaeva, a social worker from a small town in Chechnya, did not speak out against the region’s notorious leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. She wouldn’t have dared. Instead, she made a WhatsApp recording, imploring him to look into the plight of ordinary people “pushed below the poverty line” by local officials, a message that went viral among Chechen user