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 […]
Russia’s Chechnya Problem
Succession there could destabilize the Caucasus.
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