Escaped convict, war hero, media manager, mystic visionary—Khozh-Ahmed Koukhaev is the very modern model of a major Mafia don. Twenty-five years ago in Moscow, he founded an underground movement that became the cradle of the Chenchen liberation movement. Today, amidst the ruins of Grozny, he rides in an armoured Mercedes dressed in expensive Italian suits. A rare portrait of one of the world’s most powerful men—a suave strategist—Noukhaev controls the flow of the planet’s largest oil reserves.