Life in Grozny 08/12/2009
 
Radio Free Europe correspondent Gregory Feifer's recent article on the Chechen capital and its leader Ramzan Kadyrov is a must read.

Money quote:
"Shootings and bombings by the handful of separatist rebels remaining in Chechnya have been on the rise since Moscow declared its decade-long counterterrorism operation over earlier this year. But it's the Chechen authorities, not the militants, who are believed to be behind most of the ongoing abductions and killings, and, most recently, the burning of houses belonging to relatives of suspected separatists."
 

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