One of Dmitry Medvedev’s first important decisions as Russian president was to dismiss Murat Zyazikov, the discredited and ineffective Republic of Ingushetia president, and appoint career military-intelligence officer Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to replace him. That move was greeted locally with exultation: up to 80,000 people (of a population of some 480,000) had signed a petition addressed […]