Russia’s Chechnya Problem (opens in new tab)

By Andrew Ryvkin For over a century, Chechnya has been Russia’s most volatile republic. Rumored to be terminally ill, its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, who built Chechnya’s power structure around himself, doesn’t have a clear successor. The problem is that for President Vladimir Putin, a failed transition would threaten one of the central claims of his […] The post appeared first on .