There is no death, and your life is neverending (relative to you of course). This is because you're noticing yourself alive while you're living, and while you are dead you never notice your death.
Leaders? Maybe THE leader? And actually there is the only one leader in Russia - president of Russia. You wonder why local Chechen government is friendly to Russia? Because, you know, Chechnya is a part of Russia. You don't wonder why the NYS local government is friendly to the USA, do you?
"Nordic" means blond people with blue eyes. Not every white looks like that. We call black people "African-American" but there are not only blacks in Africa (Egyptians for instance). So we could call white people "European" and that should mean only white people. By the way Turks are not...