... Ramzan Kadyrov human rights corruption torture Grozny European Court Human Rights Chechen War Islamists Aslan Byutukayev Russia 266 Kadyrov is engineering public identity through forced Islamization, manipulat- ing culture for political ends, and marginalizing the Russian constitution...

...Nabi Abdullaev The Chechen conflict is not so much about who will govern Chechnya. It is about whether Chechnya will be governed at all. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Russia Chechnya Vladimir Putin Jokhar Dudayev Aslan...

... opposition can defeat a weak semi-democratic kleptocracy. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze Russia Mikhail Saakashvili Zurab Zhvania Nino Burjanadze Ajara Aslan Abashidze Rustavi National Movement...

... of the University of California Russia Chechnya Vladimir Putin Colin Powell terrorism Aslan Maskhadov Budennovsk United States Boris Yeltsin George Bush 313 As long as President Putin insists on framing the war in Chechnya as a strug- gle with international terrorism . . . and as long...