Ramzan Kadyrov’s seven statements of resignation
In May 2025, the leader of Chechnya stated that he asked to be released from the post. However, on the other day, Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that he was misunderstood. Over the past ten years, the leader of Chechnya has announced his desire to resign at least seven times and remained in office.
I am asking to be released from my post
“I am asking to be released from office,” this is how Ramzan Kadyrov commented on publications about his possible resignation on May 5, 2025.
He himself notices that he has been sitting too long in his chair
“I myself noticed that I had been sitting too long in my chair. I believe that I fully deserve an indefinite and long vacation,” Ramzan Kadyrov stated on September 3, 2022.
I am ready to leave my post
“If necessary, I am ready to leave my post, suffer, or give my life!” these were the words voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov in 2020.
I believe that it’s my time (to leave)
“It is not that I am tired, that I do not want to serve. But this means I believe that my time to leave the post comes,” Ramzan Kadyrov stated, when speaking about his plans to resign in November 2017.
Ready to guard mosque for the rest of my life
“I am ready to guard the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as a volunteer for the rest of my life,” Ramzan Kadyrov said in July 2017. The leader of Chechnya then also noted that he was ready to resign.
My time has already come
“I believe that the state leaders need to find another person (...) My time has already come. Sometimes a person has a limit,” Ramzan Kadyrov noted in 2016.
I am not clinging to my chair
“I have asked twenty times to be let go. I am not clinging to my chair,” Ramzan Kadyrov said to journalists in April 2015.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 7, 2025 at 08:10 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.