[iva]

I guess that's why putin against it. He is afraid of chechens will have a hope & the'll keep on terrorize russian citizens

[Tailgunner Joe]

He's not against it. He wants to use the precedent of Kosovo to repeat the crime carried out against the Serbs against the Georgians and Moldovans as well.

By encouraging the forces of Balkanization and separatism to seep across the fromer Soviet space, he is inviting the collpase of his own nation.