Secessionist Challenges, Exploited Ny Putin, Almost Certainly Would Be Used By His Successors In Same Way And With Similar Success – OpEd

Vladimir Putin won Russian support by presenting himself as the man who stopped secessionist challenges in Chechnya and elsewhere, Abbas Gallyamov says; and his successors will do the same thing and perhaps in even more radical ways if they are faced with even more such challenges in the future.

The former Putin speechwriter...