Humorous video about Kadyrov gains almost one million views per day

A video entitled "Chief Assistant" was posted by video blogger Danila Poperechny on the YouTube on January 14. By 4:00 p.m. on January 15, it gained 921,745 pageviews and more than 111,000 likes against 3000 dislikes.

The video starts with indication reading: "The video is not aimed at insulting someone's feelings or inciting anything. It is purely of humorous nature and should not be perceived in any other way, since it is designed as such. The video uses foul language and shows weapons; therefore, remove children from the screens."

In the video, a man with a reddish beard, dressed in camouflage and a black waistcoat, arrives in the Grandfather Frost's residence in Veliky Ustyug. The man speaks with an accent and introduces himself as Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov.

Ramzan Kadyrov offers Grandfather Frost to become his assistant for good deeds, protect the residence for money and open a burger restaurant there.

Users of the YouTube have suggested that the video will be disliked by the authorities of Chechnya and the blogger will be forced to apologize.

"Prepare you apologies," wrote user Andrei Lazovsky.

"Danila, hold on.) We make bets on how quickly a video with an apology will appear.)," another user Ilya Zaitsev remarked in his turn.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.