Word: khasbulatov
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...toed the Kremlin hard line. Ingush and Chechens suspected of rebel sympathies started to disappear. The lightning strikes were the response. Until now, the assumption was that the insurgents were Chechens. Aliyev and other locals, though, assert that many were local Ingush. Says former Russian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov: "The war in Ingushetia, hitherto hidden from the public eye, has finally surfaced...
...Kremlin has so far tried to crush the revolt with air strikes and house-to-house sweeps and now, its critics assert, by abducting suspected separatists in the night. These tactics have changed nothing, and the new Chechenization policy probably won't either. What it will provoke, says Ruslan Khasbulatov, former speaker of the Russian parliament and a Chechen, is civil war as the guerrillas turn their guns on Kadyrov's men, Moscow's Chechen proxies...
Various peace plans have been suggested for turning things around in Chechnya. One of the most detailed, put forward by Khasbulatov, speaks of giving Chechnya autonomy "under international supervision" within the Russian Federation. But Putin is opposed to anything that weakens Moscow's writ. And many Chechens believe with equal force that their only hope is independence...