[cynwoody]

The Economist is one of the more moronic old media journals still putting out a dead-tree edition.

Have they not heard of Beslan?

Where were they when the Moscow theater thing happened in 2003? I remember being thrilled to read how the Chechen women were executed point-blank while anesthetized by the Fentanyl the KGB pumped in prior to raiding.

[annalex]

Have they not heard of Beslan?

The article is about the Tartars, and the peaceful coexistence that had existed in Tatarstan, not about the Chechens. They are about 800 miles apart.