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Putin ally is threat to Russian national security, says Kremlin critic
Source: Reuters
World | Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:10am EST
Putin ally is threat to Russian national security, says Kremlin critic
MOSCOW | BY JACK STUBBS
The hardline leader appointed by President Vladimir Putin to maintain order in the turbulent Chechen region has created his own caliphate that may one day unleash an Islamic State-style jihad against Russia, according to opponents of the Kremlin.
Ilya Yashin, a prominent figure in the People's Freedom Party or PARNAS, said the Kremlin-backed leader of largely Muslim Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, had flouted Russian laws and amassed military power while his fighters carried out terrorist attacks against opponents in Russia and abroad.
"In the last few years, our own local Islamic state has formed on Russian territory," Yashin wrote in a report titled "A Threat to National Security".
He said a separate "Chechen Caliphate" lived by its own traditions and laws while receiving billions of roubles in subsidies from the Russian national budget.
"Not one politician or department is able to guarantee today that the Islamic state created in Chechnya by Kadyrov ... will not over time become a new "Islamic State" ready to declare jihad on Russia," Yashin wrote.
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Putin ally is threat to Russian national security, says Kremlin critic
MOSCOW | BY JACK STUBBS
The hardline leader appointed by President Vladimir Putin to maintain order in the turbulent Chechen region has created his own caliphate that may one day unleash an Islamic State-style jihad against Russia, according to opponents of the Kremlin.
Ilya Yashin, a prominent figure in the People's Freedom Party or PARNAS, said the Kremlin-backed leader of largely Muslim Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, had flouted Russian laws and amassed military power while his fighters carried out terrorist attacks against opponents in Russia and abroad.
"In the last few years, our own local Islamic state has formed on Russian territory," Yashin wrote in a report titled "A Threat to National Security".
He said a separate "Chechen Caliphate" lived by its own traditions and laws while receiving billions of roubles in subsidies from the Russian national budget.
"Not one politician or department is able to guarantee today that the Islamic state created in Chechnya by Kadyrov ... will not over time become a new "Islamic State" ready to declare jihad on Russia," Yashin wrote.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-kadyrov-idUSKCN0VW1GS