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In 2022, Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ordered 43 diamond-encrusted medals "For Service To The Republic Of Chechnya" at a cost of more than $170,000. Experts say he uses the lavish honors to reward his relatives and allies in Chechnya and to boost his reputation on the national level.
According to Biden, Navalny should be released immediately and
without condition. Mr. Navalny, like all Russian citizens is entitled to his rights under the Russian constitution, Biden said. He s been targeted for exposing corruption and should be released immediately and without condition, Biden said.
Biden also pledged that the US would make Russia pay for its actions. In his speech, he declared his readiness to resist Russia s attempts to damage American democracy and warned that the time when the United States would roll over in the face of Russia s aggressive actions was over. I made it very clear to President Putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russian aggressive actions, interfering with our elections, cyberattacks, poisoning its citizens, are over, Biden said.