NEW: Chechnya’s longtime ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, has often promoted polygamy in the conservative Islamic republic. With @wwwproektmedia, we reveal that he practices what he preaches. Kadyrov has a second wife — and she’s worth millions. 1/
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In 2006, when Fatima Khazuyeva was 14 years old, she took second place in an unusual Chechen beauty contest — and Kadyrov was in attendance. Multiple sources have confirmed that she is now his second wife. 2/ 
Chechnya is one of Russia's poorest regions. But Khazuyeva owns three Moscow apartments worth $5 million. She also has a large mansion in central Grozny, right by Kadyrov’s working residence. And her mother owns a for-profit rehabilitation center built near her home village. 3/
That center was built by a charitable foundation named after Kadyrov’s father. The organization is meant to help the needy — but its income is also used to fulfill Kadyrov’s whims. That includes mosques, lavish gifts, and a hippodrome that houses the Chechen leader's horses. 4/
Perhaps that helps explain why just the known properties belonging to Khazuyeva, as well as Kadyrov’s first wife, are worth more than twice the total salary he has declared since 2008. 5/
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