The Chechen Domino 🇷🇺: Russia's Achilles Heel.
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Chechnya is Russia’s achilles heel. In 1991, the comparatively small mountainous constituent republic, situated in the far South of what is now the Russian federation, broke away from the Soviet Union and the then Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, and after beating back Russian forces in the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996, would become defacto independent until the year 2000.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prospect of Chechen independence was disastrous for Russian geostrategists. Were Chechnya to gain independence from the Russian federation, it could trigger a domino effect of other nominally Russian republics with their own distinct cultural and ethnic identities declaring independence from the Russia.
After the second Chechen war, Russia would put an end to this domino threat, retaking control of Chechnya and keeping the conflict under wraps ever since.
However, despite relative stability in the North Caucasus in recent years, and particularly in the context of events in Ukraine, were an adversarial state to stir up trouble in Chechnya, it could cause Russia real problems.
