CHECHNYA MAY KEEP DUMA FROM GIVING MORE POWER TO REGIONS.

Dumadeputies may be less willing to devolve powers to Russia’s regionsbecause of Chechnya, a group of legal experts said on Russianradio June 27. They warned that the failure to devolve power fromthe center would only heighten tensions around the country’s peripheryand could produce the very thing Moscow officials want to avoid:another Chechnya somewhere else.

Duma Won’t Change Immunity Provisions.