Eight years of Putin in the Russian Presidency: A balance

It was independently from there that Russia initiated intelligence activities to identify, track and eliminate the main controllers of the separatists and terrorists in the Caucasus, and also had success in this: In March of 2005, Russian special troops killed the proclaimed Chechen separatist president, Aslan Maskhadov, in June of 2006 killed the proclaimed successor, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev and, in the following month, the most bloodthirsty of the terrorist leaders, responsible one for the worst attacks - Shamil Basayev. Today Chechnya is almost totally rebuilt (6, since it recognized the commissioner of human rights of the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg), and is relatively stable and more peace-loving than it would have been thought possible to imagine a few years ago. Last year, more than 600 guerrillas not wrapped up in terrorist activities surrendered their arms and (7) were granted amnesty. However, there are still skirmishes between rebels and security forces, while the situation in the nearby republics of the Ingushetia and Dagestan got worse last year, with the increase of attacks against security forces and the population of ethnic Russians. Also there are denunciations of abuses of power, torture and seizures of part of the security forces, principally the regional). The situation of the Northern Caucasus, though it has improved, is still far from being satisfactory.

Pravda.ru forum. The place where truth hurts