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In Moscow's Shadows 102: The Wolf that Only Howls: the Chechens in Ukraine

In Moscow's Shadows

English - June 04, 2023 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB
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A spat between Wagner's Prigozhin and Chechnya's Kadyrov provides a good opportunity to look at the role of the Chechens in the Ukraine War - or, rather, just how small a role they are playing. Why is that? Because the war is a microcosm of the Putin system in so many ways, and in that system Kadyrov has managed to create a comfortable place in which he loudly performs loyalty while actually exploiting Moscow as far as he can.

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