President Putin congratulates Akhmat Kadyrov on the Chechen constitutional referendum (Moscow, 27 March 2003)
Vladimir Putin, in a dark suit, leans across a green-and-gold desk in his office and gestures while taking notes; Akhmat Kadyrov, in a dark jacket, sits opposite with his hands clasped. The tell is the head of state's public vouching, in the accompanying Kremlin text, that the referendum result 'proved that the population trusted the authorities'.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- March 27, 2003
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Event
- Second Chechen War
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- President of Russia (kremlin.ru), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, licence stated on the site)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0.
Text on the object
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