Journalists investigating horrible atrocities against Chechen civilians were taken out by professional killers, who remain unpunished.
The Chechen link has given Putin a prize that he will exploit to the last drop.
Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings, news media were quick to point out their Chechen background.
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When Russia crushed the Chechen rebellion, the fulcrum of Islamist rebellion moved to Dagestan.
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According to Chechen traditions, after divorce children are raised by the husband and in-laws.
Did it start with Chechen nationalism and somehow migrate to a pan-Islamist jihad cause?
Deniyev was a presidential candidate in the 1997 Chechen elections won by rebel commander Aslan Maskhadov.
The move could undermine the prospect of peace talks between Moscow and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.
Though a leading pro-Russian Chechen says he is brokering peace, his claim sounds self-serving.
The Ukrainian security services say they have arrested a handful of suspected Chechen guerrilla fighters.
Both sides take a cut of the flourishing trade in petrol illegally refined from Chechen oil.
Mr Kadyrov survived several assassination attempts by Chechen rebels before Sunday's bomb hit its target.
He was a Chechen fighter who fell out with Ramzan Kadyrov, a Kremlin ally.
The other two suspects of Chechen origin will be kept in custody while police continue investigations.
Several Russians, including the foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, have accused them of secretly helping Chechen terrorists.
Though Grozny was not important in itself, it was the symbol of Chechen resistance.
In any event, a hard core of Chechen militants is likely to fight on.
Chechen rebels, which include some pretty nasty characters, may well have been the culprits.
Everyone in the republic had memories of Stalin's deportation of the entire Chechen people in 1944.
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Young Chechen men are the Russian army's favourite target for arrest, torture and disappearance.
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And the Chechen rebels now know that Moscow is wide open to suicide attacks.
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Three bombs in southern Russia , blamed on Chechen rebels, killed a score of civilians.
Ms Estemirova had worked for the prize-winning campaign group Memorial since the second Chechen War in 1999.
Could he have received some kind of bomb-training from Chechen militants who are experienced in making explosives?
One shows Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a onetime government official who later masterminded terrorist attacks against Russia.
Mr. Tsarnaev "liked it here, " his father, Anzor Tsarnaev, a Chechen, said in an interview in Makhachkala.
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Once the identities of the men became known, with their possible ethnic Chechen background, the focus shifted.
The two Chechen men arrested Wednesday were on a bus traveling to France when police detained them.
Last month Beitar Jerusalem signed two Chechen players, breaking a tradition of not signing Arabs or Muslims.
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