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...Bill Clinton took care to point out, it's the good guys who have been winning lately in Russia, the Middle East and other areas far more vital to American interests than Haiti. Nonetheless, the Haitian's anguished question had a point. Some extremely bad guys in his poverty-stricken Caribbean nation had just won a round in a showdown with the world's lone superpower. Not necessarily the decisive round; at week's end Haiti's military leaders were backing off a bit from their early defiance. But if the showdown goes the wrong way, other bad guys around...
...When Vladimir Putin was appointed Russian prime minister in 1999, Chechnya was a de facto independent region where Russia had already fought one bloody war. One of Putin's first moves, before he became President, was to launch the Second Chechen War. Kadyrov's father, Akhmad, was installed by Moscow as part of its new strategy of "Chechenization" of the conflict: turning power over to local rebels-turned-allies...
...number of abuses has fallen in the past few years, but Lokshina notes that Kadyrov's security forces continue to commit "serious human rights violations." "Kadyrov plays by his own rules," says Lokshina. "Under his rule, Chechnya became an enclave outside Russia's legal framework where the Kremlin didn't interfere...
...therefore a full-scale customs operation. This will not only attract investment, but also, experts say, allow Kadyrov to export and import capital and travel as he pleases, giving him more independence from Moscow. "Ramzan [Kadyrov] knows he can make a lot of money with Chechnya as part of Russia," says Malashenko. "But he wants it to be special, like a foreign country within Russia's borders...
...pictures of portraits of Russia...