Word: chechenization
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...sense of the pressure and fear that have tightened their grip on Moscow. The city is still traumatized by the apartment-house bombings that killed 226 last September and a pair of bombings in other cities that killed 81. At the time, Russian officials pinned those attacks on Chechen separatists--and used the explosions as justification for a bloody war that is still under way. But no one responsible for the Moscow bombings was ever caught. The latest attack may also go unsolved. Police arrested a couple of men shortly after the bombs went off but then quickly released them...
...believes the Chechen war is a quagmire. Berezovsky may have backed Putin to the hilt in using his media outlets to spin the war as a vote-winner for candidate Putin, but he now believes Putin is pursuing a disastrous course by seeking to impose Moscow's rule on the Chechens. The tycoon now insists negotiation is the only solution, and that it's pointless to have Moscow talking to its own handpicked Chenchen puppets - negotiations have to be with those who are fighting...
...Moscow Chechen chief Kadyrov listens as Russian President Putin says...
...blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms aim to transform Russia, notes the country's greatest historian, Vasili Klyuchevsky, but they end up being transformed by Russia. Putin can cut Berezovsky down to size. He can jail oligarchs, scare governors and level Chechen villages. But actually transforming Russia will take more than just political will and cunning. It will also require the kind of good fortune and luck that no modern Russian leader has yet possessed...
...would-be President. But Putin coolly exploited the greatest opportunity he was ever handed. He says he expected his decision to go to war in Chechnya, made virtually that August day, would ruin his political career. But his cold-blooded prosecution of the war to stamp out Chechen "terrorism" and bring the recalcitrant republic back under Russian control struck a chord among the country's dispirited electorate...