Re: Chronology of Russian-Chechen relations -- part two

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Doss wrote:

> Hey, I did manage to find something in English on the Chechen economy in
> 2002 by Mikahil Delyagin. (Delyagin is a left-wing quasi-Keynesian
> economist who looks kind of like a chipmunk.)

With Delyagin prefacing his article with the following hawkish rant, I
would tend to take what he says later on with a grain of salt:

"A war is going on in Russia. It is going on not only in the Caucasus
but also in Moscow. The most terrible thing in the current war is not
the impotence of the military and the militia, not the lies, which we
have already grown tired of and not even the coffins, however cynical it
may sound. The most terrible thing is that we pay our murderers
ourselves. Armed with Russian weapons, the Chechen bandits drive Russian
KAMAZ trucks, which run on gasoline produced from Russian oil. They
torture prisoners of war with electric current generated by Russian
electric power stations and heat with Russian gas luxury homes which
they have built on the money from the Russian budget. The most terrible
thing is that with our own hands we are continuing to support up to this
very day the economic base of the Chechen terror."

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