After Chechnya Georgia and Ukraine are the new targets

Writing about the announced end of Russia's military operations in Chechnya in the daily Corriere della Sera, André Glucksmann fears Moscow could now set its sights on new targets: "Power [in Chechnya] is in the hands of the police force … and the intelligence services, which are jointly controlled by Russians and Chechnyans and are subordinate to Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, who has no qualms about having his political opponents murdered. … Europe is witnessing the strengthening of the borders of an increasingly authoritarian state that is controlled by ex-KGB agents. This is relevant not only for Chechnya and Russia … . We [Europeans] are helpless in the face of the anti-democratic repression of the media in Russia, the increasingly vertical takeover of power by [Prime Minister] Vladimir Putin and now in the face of an even more dangerous action: freed of its worries about Chechnya the Kremlin now has more energy and time to extend its power beyond its borders: above all in Georgia and in Ukraine."

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