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VIDEO. Our special correspondent in Grozny was able to speak briefly with the Chechen president, who has pledged allegiance to Putin and rules his “republic” with an iron fist.
From our special correspondent in Chechnya, Anne Nivat
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AT Grozny, capital of Chechnya, like in twenty-four other cities of Russia, this year, the military parade celebrating the victory of May 9, 1945 against Nazism has been canceled for security reasons. However, if there is a place in the Russian Federation where the risk of an attack seems unlikely, it is this Caucasian republic of just over a million inhabitants, twice the size of Corsica and chaired with an iron fist since 2007 by Ramzan Kadyrov, hero of Russia and authoritarian guarantor of order and stability in its territory since the end of the bloody second Russian-Chechen campaign (1999-2009). Proof of the immense confidence rediscovered between Moscow and Grozny, alongside Timur Ivanov, Russian Deputy Minister of Defense who came…