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President Putin meets Akhmad Kadyrov, head, 2000 Russia photograph: Two men sit in armchairs in a wood-panelled room, one

President Putin meets Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the Chechen provisional administration (Sochi, 17 August 2000)

Two men sit in armchairs in a wood-panelled room, one in a white short-sleeved shirt gesturing as he talks, the other in a pale green polo shirt leaning forward and listening. The tell is the informal, open-collar setting, which presents the Kremlin's appointee in Chechnya as a trusted interlocutor of the president, an association of the local administrator with the head of state.

Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

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Date
August 17, 2000
Period
Contemporary
Made by
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru)

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Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
Region
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country
Russia
Medium
Photograph
Issuer type
State
Regime
Putin Government
Leader
Vladimir Putin
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Theme
War and the military
Event
Second Chechen War
Regime
Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin
Leader
Vladimir Putin
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Wikimedia Commons (Presidential Press and Information Office, kremlin.ru), retrieved October 11, 2026
Rights
CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, via Commons)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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