“I deeply regret attending this event,” Swank said in a written message to The Associated Press on Thursday|The celebrities as well as dozens of Russian politicians and pop stars showed up to congratulate and lavish Kadyrov with praise from a stage arranged between a gigantic mosque and a newly built business center}

(CBS/AP) MOSCOW – Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank said she “deeply regrets” visiting a concert held on the birthday of Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who is accused of torture, abductions and killings by human rights groups.

The 37-year-old actress said that she was unaware of the disappearances, house torchings and 루비게임주소 extra-judicial killings reportedly orchestrated by Kadyrov in the southern Russian republic.

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