Chechen leader tells soldiers to fire on Russian troops in region

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Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has told his security forces to open fire on Russian federal troops if they operate in the region without his approval.

He told his troops they could shoot at unauthorised soldiers from other regions after the killing of a man in the Chechen capital, Grozny, by security forces from a neighbouring region.

Kadyrov said: "I would like to officially state: open fire if someone from Moscow or Stavropol, it doesn't matter, appears on your turf without your knowledge. We have to be reckoned with."

The man was killed on Sunday in a special operation by federal forces stationed in Chechnya and law enforcement officials from Stavropol, Russian media reported.

Kadyrov, a former militant, has won huge concessions from Moscow to rule Chechnya as he pleases, essentially turning it into his own fiefdom, where dissent is not tolerated and elements of Islamic law are in place.


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The unwritten deal is that Kadyrov promises the nominal loyalty to Moscow of Chechnya, a region Russia fought two bitter wars to bring under its control, and is given a free hand there in return. Many Russian politicians privately express worries about the amount of power he has built up and the potential threat his armed divisions could one day pose.

His private army came under the spotlight last month when a Chechen police officer was arrested as one of the main suspects in the murder of the Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, in February.

Kadyrov praised the suspect, Zaur Dadaev, as a brave soldier and a deeply religious man.

He has always denied allegations of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings, but the deaths of his opponents have raised questions. In 2009, Dubai police issued an arrest warrant for Kadyrov's cousin Adam Delimkhanov, who is a member of the Russian parliament and widely seen as Kadyrov's right-hand man. Delimkhanov was wanted in connection with the murder of the Chechen commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai. Yamadayev's brother Ruslan was shot dead in Moscow a year earlier.

Delimkhanov continues to sit as a Russian MP, and the Sever battalion, in which the Nemtsov murder suspect Dadayev served, is controlled by his brother.
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