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30 years since start of First Chechen War, Kadyrov's Chechnya remains one of the most brutal places on Earth. Russian troops launched a brutal & eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. 30 years later & 2-wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's oppressive regime. After losing 1st & winning 2nd Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its hold over the region, home to 1.5m people, with help of Kadyrov's father, Akhmat, & loyalist forces under his command. The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality & silencing critics of both Kadyrov's & Putin's regimes.

Like Syria, Kadyrov family has successfully muster a private army authorities of 70,000 Chechen fighters loyal to the warlord with Chechen militants & police have been abducting, torturing & murdering activists, members of the LGBTQ+ community & those suspected of disloyalty to regime. In exchange for maintaining peace in Chechnya, he has given free rein beyond borders of his tiny republic, reportedly carrying out extrajudicial killings in Grozny, Moscow & Berlin, trauma of Chechen War in early 2000s still looms over Kremlin," Vadim Dubnov, a Caucasus expert at Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace, told Kyiv Independent, "Last thing Moscow needs now is instability in North Caucasus, particularly in Chechnya."
https://kyivindependent.com/30-years-sin...-on-earth/

Like Syria, Kadyrov family has successfully muster a private army authorities of 70,000 Chechen fighters loyal to the warlord with Chechen militants & police have been abducting, torturing & murdering activists, members of the LGBTQ+ community & those suspected of disloyalty to regime. In exchange for maintaining peace in Chechnya, he has given free rein beyond borders of his tiny republic, reportedly carrying out extrajudicial killings in Grozny, Moscow & Berlin, trauma of Chechen War in early 2000s still looms over Kremlin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War