Russian analysts are beginning to wonder whether Moscow has grown tired of Chechnya’s ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, and wants to replace him. Recent attacks on human rights activists in Chechnya received unusually wide and negative media coverage in Russia, even though years of routine rights violations in the republic, documented by human rights activists, were routinely ignored.
A reporter for the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Yulia Kalinina, says it is extremely hard to receive a proper answer to the simple question “what is going on in Chechnya now?” Chechen officials say all is well in the republic, while ordinary people either keep …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
