Moscow fought two recent wars with the region. The first was fought incompetently to a draw under Boris Yeltsin. The second saw Russia prevail with overwhelming force. Vladimir Putin rose to power and popularity on the back of the second Chechen conflict. After blaming multiple apartment bombings in Moscow on Chechen terrorists, Mr. Putin brutally and effectively silenced the Chechen opposition. This beside the fact that the post-KGB forces, FSB operatives, were found wiring another apartment building for implosion and blamed it on a “training exercise.”
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