... the conflict in Chechnya. "When war broke out that winter, the Russian army was expected to put a quick end to this people's rag-tag revolt. Instead, Chechen fighters gave the Russians a horrific mauling from the first day, worse many said than the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Russian response - bombing Grozny, a city of 400,000 people, to the ground, and then doing the same thing to village after village - was sick beyond comprehension". (Sebastian.2006, P.135) Russia is a country of great ethnic diversity, consisting of more than one hundred ethno-linguistic groups. Chechnya is just one of Russia's 21 ethnically defined republics, but it is "only here that one of the most ghastly conflicts in the recent times has flared up" (Sakwa, 2003, p.59). What are the reasons that provoked Chechnya to seek secession, while other areas remain relatively stable and within the existing constitutional order? ...

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