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The Kremlin’s Chechen factor
The latest violent chapter in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has rebalanced geopolitical realities in the South Caucasus. Turkey has made significant progress in expanding its role there. Even more disturbingly for the Kremlin, the 2020 war has been associated with a surge in radical political Islam that threatens to spill over into the highly combustive North Caucasus. Russia’s security system there is fragile and costly, as it largely hinges on the rule of a Chechen warlord.
War and peace: How Russia’s domestic and foreign policies interact
If you pay attention to its media, it is easy to believe that Russia is on the warpath – toward cyber war, hybrid war, a second Cold War or even a Third World War. This may even be true in a way, but the real battleground is inside Russia. At ...
