Word: chechenization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Even if they have their own difficulties with Washington, of course, China and India may also have many reasons to keep Russia at arm's length. And dabbling in Iran and Iraq also has the potential to blow up in the face of a Russian leader whose Chechen enemies have a far greater emotional claim on the good offices of Islamic countries. Still, Moscow has unleashed a flurry of moves on the geopolitical chessboard. And whoever ends up calling the shots in the White House will have his work cut out for him. Washington's geopolitical free ride...
This approach has usually worked. Putin has also quite often denied knowledge of an embarrassing event or subtly hinted that it was the responsibility of subordinates. He did this in February, when Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there...
...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...
...require visitors to register with the police. Russia's Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal authority, has repeatedly held that these rules violate the rights granted by the Russian constitution. But constitutional debate in Russia is shaped more often by shrapnel than by legal doctrine. Putin's anti-Chechen rhetoric often seems a calculated reminder that a country at war should hardly hope for enlargement of civil rights...
...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...