Warlord offers a goat for Mrs Kenya's hand

How would you define the word "impossible"? Some things are impossible, like cows flying, plutonium disappearing from the earth, or George W. Bush becoming an intellectual. Well, how would you like the idea of You becoming one of Ramzan Kadyrov's wives?

And, since the object of the eager proposal was Mrs Kenya, does it mean that in Kenya – let alone Chechnya – women can take several husbands? Now, that would be some equality...

And, if you marry a Warlord, what does that make you? Warlady?


Warlord offers a goat for Mrs Kenya's hand
(by Adrian Blomfield in Moscow)

Traditionalists maintain that the best way to a girl's heart is to say it with flowers.
But if you are a feared Chechen warlord it could be better to say it with livestock.
That, at least, was the method adopted by President Ramzan Kadyrov
this weekend when he offered to make a visiting African beauty queen
one of his wives and sweetened the proposal by presenting her with two
horses, two chickens and a goat.
If she was taken aback, Caroline Varkaik, Kenya's contender at next month's Mrs World contest in Russia, covered it up well. Looking briefly surprised, she clasped Mr Kadyrov in a bear hug and promised to return in a year.
It was a strange conclusion to a controversial jaunt into lawless Chechnya
— scene of two brutally suppressed rebellions in the past 12 years — by
the participants of the 2007 Mrs World pageant. Touring Russia ahead of
the contest's finals, to be held in the Black Sea resort ofSochi on
March 8, many of the beauty queens on board the charter flight that
took them to the neighbouring and almost lawless province ofIngushetia, were reportedly unaware of their destination.

They were then whisked to Chechnya in a convoy of 15 black Porsches, with armed soldiers positioned every 500 yards along the 30-mile road to protect from rebel attack.
Supposed to be more wholesome than its Miss World counterpart — as well as
parading in the swimsuits contestants also show how quickly they can
change a nappy — the pageant has been mired in scandal of late.
Last year's competition in St Petersburg saw the winning tiara being ripped off a tearful Mrs Costa Rica's head before being handed to Mrs Russia, who was an 18-year-old model married to one of the country's richest men, fuelling allegations of vote rigging.

(Almost the same story in other words, and the first photo here in Kommersant.)