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September 25, 2008 A Blast from the Past By Dmitry Babich Russia Profile |
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The recent murder in the center of Moscow of Ruslan Yamadayev, an influential Chechen warlord turned colonel of the Russian army, marks an important threshold for Chechnya. Yamadayev, 46, was the head of an influential clan seen as one of the very few remaining challenges to the virtually unbound power of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s controversial president.
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