Posted on 04/04/2018 8:31:34 AM PDT by BeadCounter
Ramzan Kadyrov ruled Chechnya for eight years without Russian president Vladimir Putin publicly rebuking him, until December 2014, when armed insurgents killed 24 in central Grozny. A few days later, the Chechen authorities applied a collective punishment (an approach they favour), destroying the homes of the rebels’ families.
On live television, Putin stressed that ‘everyone in Russia must observe the law.’ As a sign that this was more than a momentary irritation, he then cast doubt on the renewal of Kadyrov’s mandate as head of the republic in March 2016. Kadyrov said he was thinking of resigning, but according to Alexey Malashenko, a Russian expert on Islam and the North Caucasus, ‘this was a bluff, a way of reminding the Kremlin that he could not be replaced and that peace in Chechnya depended on him.’ Kadyrov stayed on after Putin made a great show of pleading with him to accept the job, though asking him to cooperate more closely with the federal authorities, including the police and FSB.
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