Moscow has waged two wars against separatists in the predominantly Moslem region since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The region is now ruled by Kadyrov, a former rebel fighter now loyal to President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...Civil rights activists accuse Kadyrov of arbitrary arrests of dissidents.
Kadyrov said on his Instagram account that a group directed by a Chechen-born myrmidon based in Syria had been targeted.
| That'd be ISIS, I assume. |