"You can write whatever you want, but don't touch America's dogs!"
Another day, another Instagram scandal, starring Ramzan Kadyrov, the thuggish leader of Chechnya, who loves to use the social network to do all sorts of things: praise Vladimir Putin, praise himself, and — lately — threaten his critics.
Late on Sunday, Kadyrov posted a video showing two Russian opposition politicians — Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Russian prime minister, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was mysteriously poisoned last year — with a crosshair superimposed upon them.
The caption read: "Kasyanov has come to Strasbourg for money for the Russian opposition. He who doesn't understand, will understand!"
The post was doubly creepy considering it comes close to the one year anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the co-chair of Kasyanov's party Parnas. Nemtsov was gunned down outside the Kremlin on Feb. 27 last year. An officer in Kadyrov's security forces has been charged with the murder.
The post caused an uproar. Putin's spokesman was even brought into the fray and told journalists on Monday: "We don't follow Kadyrov's Instagram, so I don't have anything more to say on this question."
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Then, suddenly, the video was gone. An Instagram representative told the Russian newspaper Vedomosti that they had removed it for violating the network's terms of service. Many were happy, but one man was pissed — loyal Instagram user, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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