Paul Goble
Staunton, Feb. 14 – That Ramzan Kadyrov is a horrific authoritarian leader isn’t news, but just how bad he may be is suggested by Musa Lomayev who says that life for Chechens under his rule is now so bad that Chechens who fought two wars against Moscow since 1991 would welcome even an ethnic Russian to replace him.
Lomayev, a Chechen human rights activist and prominent blogger, says that “after Ramzan Kadyrov will come not a Chechen or even a Caucasian but an ethnic Russian who will first of all save the Chechen people” from Kadyrov’s repressions and “give them the chance to more or less breathe for a time” (poligonmedia.appspot.com/musa-lomaev/).
At that time, Lomayev continues, “all the crimes which have been committed and are being committed now on the territory of the Chechen Republic will be attributed to Ramzan Kadyrov.” To the extent that is the case, Moscow’s reliance on Kadyrov to keep the situation in hand may prove to be an increasingly bad bet.
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