The Second Chechen War: Peripheral Issues [Online-Abo]

The “Chechen question” was perhaps the biggest domestic political construction site that Vladimir Putin found himself in when he was appointed head of government by President Boris Yeltsin in September 1999 – with the prospect of replacing the unpopular Yeltsin in office a few months later.¹

Because the “Chechen issue”, so to speak, is the enemy of the “parade of sovereignties” initiated by Yeltsin himself when…