Zaindi Choltaev

Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political analyst, served in the 1990s as deputy foreign minister and Chairman of the Administration in the Provisional State Council of Chechnya's separatist government. He spent the academic year 2002 to 2003 in Washington as the visiting Galina Starovoitova Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

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AFTER THE TRAGEDY

10.13.2004 Zaindi Choltaev

Since the tragic events in Beslan, much has changed in Russia. At first there was shock. The authorities seemed disoriented; instead of working effectively to...

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SURKOV AND THE SEARCH FOR ENEMIES

10.06.2004 Zaindi Choltaev

An interview with Vladislav Surkov, President Putin's deputy chief of staff, published by Komsomolskaya pravda on October 1 provides a glimpse of the dark new...

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The Failure Of “chechenization”

08.04.2004 Zaindi Choltaev

The explosion in Grozny on May 9, 2004 threw the Russian leadership into disarray. The death of Akhmad Kadyrov, as well as the drastic deterioration...

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ON THE EVE OF ELECTIONS IN CHECHNYA: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

10.09.2003 Zaindi Choltaev

By Zaindi Choltaev We left Sunzhensky district early in the morning, heading for Grozny from the west of Chechnya. After the turn to Assinovskaya, still...

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