[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Again, I said he has interesting insight into Putin since his country FOUGHT Putin!

You didn't answer my question.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

I did answer your question. I felt Zakayev had unique insights. THAT IS ALL!

I do not know enough about Zakayev to either support nor condemn him.

HOWEVER, may give insight:

Chechen rebellion

“The Chechen insurgency has evolved since the 1990s when Zakayev and other now-dead leaders sought to establish an independent state. The current generation of fighters are NO LONGER BATTLING FOR INDEPENDENCE but want to establish a Taliban-style islamist emirate across Russia’s northern caucasus. [I do not support Islamic caliphate, do you?]

The surviving separatist Chechen exiles from the 1990s have been dubbed “CONSTITUTIONALISTS” to distinguish them FROM the RADICAL Islamist “military resistance” which now dominates the insurgent hierarchy.

The most powerful people currently inside Chechnya, however, are the armed followers of Kadyrov, many of whom have been absorbed into the republic’s security and military structures. They are known as ‘Kadyrovtsy’ and including many former rebels, they are accused of numerous human rights abuses.”