From Jackie O to Sam Cam, fashion has proven itself to be a useful tool for making governments popular. The Chechnyan government seems to have adopted this strategy in hiring a catwalk model to help promote a more light-hearted image of the war-torn country, better known for controlling its subjects through murder and torture. Canadian model Chrystal Callahan writes a state blog called Grozny Gossip and hosts her own chat show Highlights of the Week with Chrystal Callahan, on state-controlled television. Features on fashion, beauty and frothy topics are mixed in with tributes to Chechnya’s president Kadyrov. Callahan’s latest blogpost advises citizens in a typically airhead way, to stop being nasty to each other and listen to Rhianna instead.


Thanks to Paula Bjork for this story.


References:
Radio Free Europe

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