Some Russian observers suggested this week that the latest accusations by Isa Yamadaev against Chechen President, Ramzan Kadyrov, may be part of a larger ongoing power struggle between two Russian intelligence agencies –the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the General Staff’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).
On April 20, the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets published an open letter from Isa Yamadaev claiming he had video evidence that Kadyrov was behind the murder of two of his brothers –Sulim Yamadaev, the former commander of the Russian military’s Vostok battalion, who was shot in Dubai in March 2009, and Ruslan Yamadaev, the former State Duma Deputy shot to death in Moscow in September 2008. Isa Yamadaev also claimed that Kadyrov was behind an attempt on his life in July of last year (EDM, ...
Chechnya has returned to haunt Russia. Forty deaths
by suicide bombs on the Moscow subway confirm that outsourcing rule in
the restive republic is a failed policy. But no other plan is in sight;
these are not likely to be the last innocent lives lost.
The ease with which terrorists detonated their bombs in the heart of
the Russian capital - under the very headquarters of the Federal
Security Service at the Lubyanka station and near the world famous
Gorky Park - raised serious questions, not just about the ability of
Russian security forces to defend citizens, but more fundamentally over
the entire Russian policy towards the North Caucasus, begun under
Vladimir Putin and carried on by his successor as Russian president,
Dmitry Medvedev.
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