Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's Chechnya region, has accused Russian lawmakers from neighbouring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a "blood feud", the state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims Russian lawmakers plotted his assassination over a corporate merger. The conflict stems from Wildberries' merger with Russ Group, termed an 'asset grab' by Kadyrov.

The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused three Russian deputies of plotting his assassination and has threatened them with 'blood feud.' In Chechen culture, this means killing the enemy or a male member of their family,

According to the reports, Kadyrov first brought up a conflict involving the online marketplace Wildberries. In that dispute, Kerimov sided with the company’s founder, Tatyana Kim, while Kadyrov took the side of her now ex-husband,