ramzan kadyrov is on the us sanctions list. was still happy to invite us to his palace. mr kadyrov was a former chechen rebel who switched to the kremlin side, and he rules chechnya like a personalfiefdom. your critics say that you used mo salah for political propaganda, for self—promotion. did you? translation: everyone has played here, even maradona, but we never use this kind of thing for politics. 0ur enemies are paid to write things like that. i didn't invite mo salah or the egyptian team. they chose us themselves. of course, politicians all over the world love photo opportunities with stars. but what made this one controversial, what makes the egyptian team's presence in chechnya controversial, is the reputation of ramzan kadyrov as one of the most powerful and most feared men in russia. driving around grozny, you can see that chechnya under ramzan kadyrov has risen from the ashes, from the rubble of two wars. but at what cost? human rights groups say he has created a climate of fear. they accuse his security forces of arb

ramzan kadyrov is on the us sanctions list. he was still happy to invite us to his palace. mr kadyrov was a former chechen rebel who switched to the kremlin side and he rules chechnya like his own personalfiefdom. your critics say that you used mo salah for political propaganda, for self—promotion. did you? translation: everyone has played here, even maradona. but we never use this kind of thing for politics. 0ur enemies are paid to write things like that. i didn't invite mo salah or the egyptian team. they chose us themselves. of course, politicians all over the world love photo opportunities with stars. but what made this one controversial, what makes the egyptian team's presence in chechnya controversial, is the reputation of ramzan kadyrov as one of the most powerful and most feared men in russia. driving around grozny, you can see that chechnya under ramzan kadyrov has risen from the ashes, from the rubble of two wars. but at what cost? human rights groups say he has created a climate of fear. they accuse his security forc

rosny isn't hosting any world cup matches but chechen leader ramzan kadyrov took matters into his own hands and invited the egyptian national team to base itself in the city a move that drew widespread condemnation. cuddyer off notorious for ruling chechnya with an iron fist couldn't care less and he gladly capitalized on the opportunity to pose with egypt star player mohamed salah who as cardia ross guest had little choice but to apply. oh robert. cut the year off likes to surround himself with international celebrities and present himself as a sports patron thirty year old church a new to it and his friends adore sala who's a striker for f.c. liverpool to them he's a demigod. or they've only ever seen him on t.v. . so they're going to remember this encounter all their life because those. in the volatile region sport plays an important role for ordinary chechens often it's the only option available for making a career and going abroad one or two others we're really happy to host the egyptian national team. they are our brothers. will turn out to be this world cup star player. russian

rights groups and the fact that the team auster then attend a banquet hosted by chechen leader ramzan kadyrov has really been great with a lot of concern by most salary in particular the fact that then use this banquet to grant citizenship to mossad really hasn't gone down well he's reportedly furious at being used as a political symbol in what's supposed to be a celebration of football this summer so whether or not he actually does retire from egyptian football remains to be saying but it's a very embarrassing situation for the egyptians really a terrible situation actually a little good another exciting match coming up to spain and portugal spain and portugal are both in action today spain take on morocco in the games all at the same time so they can be notion of collusion and people knowing what they have to do to knock each other out was keep in the at the same time not to say spain against morocco if they win they should top group be elsewhere literally run who nobody expects to get very far between when they have the opportunity to also go through if they can be portugal tough ask who k