Earlier this year, the mufti of Dagestan, Said-Muhammad Abubakarov, was assassinated. He had opposed the radicalization of Islam, even though he favored the introduction of the shariah. He just did not want to pick fights with the Russians. For years, Chechen bandits have been at the heart of some of the worst crime syndicates in Russia. The Chechens are a lot like the Albanians.
Blood is everything.
Their world is organized according to kinship. In 1996 Chechnya broke away from Moscow. And it has failed totally as a nation-state. The chief source of income is crime. Chechens regularly steal oil from the pipeline connecting the Caspian and the Black Seas.