Word: kadyrovtsi
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...allegiance to the Russians in 1999, came to power last October in an election the human-rights organization Moscow Helsinki Group described as "fraudulent." His installation was crucial to Putin's "Chechenization" policy; Kadyrov would take the pressure off Russian troops by using his private army, known as the Kadyrovtsi, to hunt down the rebels. But Kadyrov had enemies of his own, from committed separatists who regarded him as a Kremlin stooge to some Russian security and military officials wary of his growing autonomy. One of those foes killed him on May 9 by placing a bomb inside a concrete...
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