Moscow's Tactics In Chechnya Draw On Stalinist Legacy
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posted by circassiankama on April, 2009 as CHECHNYA
April 13, 2009
Moscow's Tactics In Chechnya Draw On Stalinist Legacy
by Aslan Doukaev
Josef Stalin is dead, but there are some places where you would be
forgiven for doubting it. Consider, for example, Chechnya, one of
Russia's most unstable republics.
The
press releases which flood out from the spin center of Ramzan Kadyrov,
the region's Moscow-backed strongman, are so steeped in Bolshevik
hyperbole that at times, halfway through some particularly egregious
passage, you almost expect the mustachioed specter of Stalin to appear
and sternly wag its finger at you.
Then again, the Soviet
dictator, were he to come back from whichever circle of hell he is in
now, would have a hard time competing for the limelight with Chechnya's
young and adulation-hungry leader.
Since he became the de facto
leader of Chechnya five years ago, Kadyrov has been busily promoting
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Russia Announces Formal End Of 'Counterterror' Operation In Chechnya
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posted by circassiankama on as CHECHNYA
April 16, 2009
Russia Announces Formal End Of 'Counterterror' Operation In Chechnya
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's April 16 decree formally ending the
counterterror operation in Chechnya is being touted as a major
propaganda victory for Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, and
possibly even as heralding the republic's de facto independence from
the Russian Federation. In fact, however, it will change very little on
the ground.
For
the past several years, the Russian military has played little part in
the desultory low-level fighting. The Chechen resistance still operates
in the southern districts of the republic, taking and then
relinquishing temporary control of individual villages, but its primary
target is not the Russian troops but the pro-Moscow units loyal to
Kadyrov.
In line with Medvedev's decree, up to 20,000 of the
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RFE/RL: Three Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya
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posted by eagle on as CHECHNYA
Three Russian Soldiers Killed In Chechnya
April 22, 2009 GROZNY -- Three Russian soldiers have been shot to death in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Military officials stationed in Chechnya told RFE/RL that a Russian military truck was attacked by a group of Chechen rebels on April 21 near the village of Bamut, about 40 kilometers southwest of Grozny.
A sergeant and two privates were killed.
The incident took place four days after Russia officially announced the end of its "antiterrorist" operations in Chechnya.
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Window On Eurasia: Another Victory For Kadyrov—No Chechens To Be Drafted This Year
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posted by eagle on as CHECHNYA
Paul Goble
Charlottesville, April 21 – Thirteen years to the day that Russian forces killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechnya’s first president, Ramzan Kadyrov, that republic’s current one, has gained yet another concession from Moscow: The Russian military will not take Chechens this year into Russia’s uniformed service despite increasing the number to be drafted elsewhere.
That announcement in Grozny comes on the heels of Moscow’s declaration of the end of the counter-terrorism operation there, an act that has prompted some to talk about another “victory of Chechnya over Russia,” others to point to the continuing activity of anti-Russian militants there, and still others to argue that Moscow is making a third Chechen war “inevitable.”
But the most serious immediate consequence is likely to be a new outburst of anger by groups like the Russian Soldiers Mothers Committee who are ...
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Prague Watchdog: What Changes Await Chechnya? (Weekly Review)
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posted by eagle on as CHECHNYA
What changes await Chechnya? (weekly review)By Vadim Borshchev, special to Prague Watchdog
Well, of course some things will change a little. For example, there will be an increase in Chechnya’s budget allocations for imported goods. This may have the effect of reducing the cost of these products, but one somehow doesn’t have much faith that this will happen. Common sense suggests that even if prices do fall, they will do so only slightly, and not noticeably. It’s more likely that the additional revenues from customs and international flights will be used to patch up the holes in the budget that have already appeared since the decision for federal funding for Chechnya to be cut by 30 percent. And that is only for starters. Yet the requirements will not change – they will actually grow. The image of the great builder such as mankind has ... |
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