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Why couldn’t Chechnya break away like the other republics after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991?

April 26, 2017away break chechnya collapsed couldn’t republics soviet union

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Why couldn’t Chechnya break away like the other republics after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991?

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Chechnya was not a Soviet republic like Armenia or the Baltic states. During the Soviet era, Chechnya was designated a semi-autonomous district within Russia’s borders. After the rapid break-up of the USSR, the newly emerged Russian Federation hardened its borders in a bid to maintain territorial integrity and to retain a major oil refining center and pipelines, several of which run through Chechnya.