Russian airport comes under terrorist attack

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Kasz216 said:

disolitude said:

superchunk said:

While I don't agree with this bombing in any way... I have to say I wish Russia would just leave Chechnya.

At this point, this ship has sailed...and I am not sure it would be the best thing for anyone to begin with.

Russia controls (and always has) all the public services like medicine and hospitals, police, transportation, education. Russia leaving the province alone would be like throwing a region back in to the stone age. Not to mention that they are investing a lot of money and resources in to the region due to the oil pipeline...

Would they really be back in the stone age... you know, considering the pipeline you later mentioned. Contiuned use of that would net the new country quite a bit of money to build infrastructure.

The pipeline connecting the black and caspian sea doesn't go through Chechenya but is in Dagestan which is in the neighbourhood. As it stands, they are getting a lot of Russian investments as they are trying to keep the people pacified. The whole town of Grozny has been apparently completely rebuilt. However if they separate, Chechenya wouldn't see a dime from the pipeline... It would only destabilize the region further which is the last thing that Russia wants.