A Perfect Counterinsurgency? Making Sense of Moscow’s Policy of ChechenisationFootnote

This study was carried out in the framework of the Program P17 ‘Sciences on Society, Politics, and Media’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

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