Depardieu, Instagram and Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘adorable side’

... more general presence of an East-West Dichotomy in Western European media, whereby the ‘West’ is portrayed as rational, developed and superior to the irrational, underdeveloped and inferior ‘East’. Depardieu’s visit to Chechnya provided fresh material for such portrayals; several UK media outlets chose to illustrate their pieces on the actor’s visit to Chechnya with the same picture of him in a ‘cossack hat’. In wearing this hat, Depardieu – a Western and supposedly more rational masculine individual – ...