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Violence may evolve but not end in Russia's Chechnya

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RUSSIA

Kadyrov said he helped plan the operation in which Byutukayev and his five remaining followers died. It may be premature to declare an end to violence: attacks on security forces…

Raising its Balkan profile will cost Russia little

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BALKANS

Russia's contacts with Balkans political parties.

Russia trials new governance model for Dagestan

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RUSSIA

Vasilyev said he was appointing a new chief prosecutor and high-court judges, as people were crying out for justice. Through him, Moscow is strengthening its direct control of…

Kremlin will speed up assimilating non-Russian Tatars

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RUSSIA

Tatarstan, a leading proponent of autonomy, is being targeted in a drive for centralisation and cultural/linguistic homogenisation aimed at consolidating a Russian-speaking state…

Athens-Moscow upgrade need not worry West

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GREECE

The outcome corresponds neither to the hopes of those who believed in a radical upgrading of relations between Russia and Greece, nor to the fears of those who had speculated that…

Moscow considers stripping Tatarstan of special status

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RUSSIA

The Kremlin is saying nothing, but seems unlikely to approve an extension and has not initiated the legislation needed for this. Ending the treaty will annul Tatarstan's claim to…

Nemtsov's death heralds darker era in Russia

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RUSSIA

Nemtsov was killed on February 27 by several shots fired from a passing car, on Moscow's Bolshoi Mosvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin. He had been due to take part in the…

South-east Asia outbreaks bring risk and opportunity

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

In recent months, the region has received jabs manufactured in China, India and Russia -- the key practitioners of ‘vaccine diplomacy’ -- as well as shots made in the West…

Russia will meddle in troubled Balkan waters

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BALKANS

Disturbances in the newest NATO member state stems from religious and political affiliation rather than any doctrinal split, pitting pro-Western Montenegrin nationalists and…

Russia devises bespoke solutions to Caucasus crises

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RUSSIA

New leadership in Ingushetia.