title: Chechnya's status within the Russian Federation Ramzan Kadyrov's private state and Vladimir Putin's federal "power vertical"
abstract: In the run-up to the Russian presidential elections on 18 March 2018, the Kremlin further tightened the federal 'vertical of power' that Vladimir Putin has developed since 2000. In the North Caucasus, this above all concerns the republic of Dagestan. Moscow intervened with a powerful purge, replacing the entire political leadership. The situation in Chechnya, which has been ruled by Ramzan Kadyrov since 2007, is conspicuously different. From the early 2000s onwards, President Putin conducted a p
journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)