You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.
Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.