Large, Big Brother-like pictures of Chechnya's stocky 32-year-old leader hang everywhere, along with signs of praise and thanks. But as RFE/RL correspondent Gregory Feifer discovered during an August 2009 visit to interview Ramzan Kadyrov, there are signs of a deep fear beneath the veneer of devoted optimism.
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