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The revenge of the Caucasus: Chechenization and the dual state in Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard Sakwa
Richard Sakwa*
Affiliation:
School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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*Email: r.sakwa@kent.ac.uk
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Abstract

Post-communist development in Russia has been characterized by the development of a dual state in which the constitutional order is balanced by the consolidation of an arbitrary prerogative state. This horizontal dualism has taken root in Russia's regions; and this is accompanied by the establishment of a form of vertical dualism in relations between the regions and the center. Attempts to overcome this form of segmented regionalism under president Vladimir Putin have been undermined by the development of Chechenization, which represents not only the repudiation of dualism in this republic, but threatens to undermine the precarious balance between the constitutional and prerogative states at the federal level as well. Chechenization has its opponents in Moscow as well and its fate is defined by the struggle between the factions at the center. The process of “separatism without secession” is a highly ambiguous one and reflects broader developments in the Russian state as president Dmitry Medvedev seeks to strengthen the constitutional pillar of the dual state.

Keywords

Chechnyadual stateChechenizationsegmented regionalismkadyrovJihad
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 38 , Issue 5 , September 2010 , pp. 601 - 622
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Copyright © 2010 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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