I’ve said it before, Chechnya is way down there in Southern Russia, maybe Ossetia is too. Maybe they should just let them go since their such troubled spots. Really, Russia is like the size of 3 United States but those two areas don’t seem too big. I’m sure the ROC is there, so I do realize it is not a simple matter. I’ve been corrected about this before too, people say, then you have an Islamic Republic on your footsteps. That may well be so.
I’ve read things like “Russia’s military will soon be majority Russian”; but really, if some of these areas have majority Muslim populations and that is where a good portion of Russia’s 20,000,000 Muslims are, one could conceivably let it go.
By the way, I think it’s a longstanding tradition over there, to embrace the diversity of religion including the Jewish faith too. They’ve got their strongman, Kadyrov in Chechnya, maybe they figure they can to an extent control things with their own favored rulers in power.