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The Lezginka is the best-known national dance from the Caucasus region, and varieties of it are danced by almost every national group - Georgian, Ossetian, Chechen, Avari, Azeri, etc.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is an avid Lezginka dancer. There are many videos of him performing it on YouTube.
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