Chechnya is Russia's festering wound

Fifteen years after the war in Chechnya began the daily Postimees reminds readers that the problems have by no means been solved: "Chechnya remains a festering wound for Russia. One which it has grown more or less used to over the years, but which time after time makes itself felt. Each time the horror begins to fade a fresh attack revives it. Back then the Russian president at the time Boris Yeltsin sent tanks to Grozny to restore law and order. ... To this day the question of whether this bloody conflict could have been avoided hangs in the air.  But no matter how you interpret the past: that fateful decision of 15 years ago has supplied a series of tragic headlines, like [the musical theatre production] Nord-Ost, the explosions in apartment blocks, the attacks on the Moscow subway and the school in Beslan."

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