The government in Chechnya is a Republic within the Russian Confederation. Chechnya had and still has very little political autonomy. the current leader is President Ramzan Kadyrov who has been in power since his father died in 2007. He was put in power after his father died.
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Other important figures in Chechen history are Vladmir Putin, who advised and helped the Kadyrov Family, and Dzhokhar Dudayev, who was the first person to officially claim independence after the First Chechen war in 1991.
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