NEWSLINK: “Kremlin Stringing Kadyrov Along on Oil” – Russian and Eurasian Politics/Gordon Hahn

“Chechen President and strongman Ramzan Kadyrov recently may have finally won long-sought concessions from Moscow in oil related industries, something he has been fighting to attain from RosNeft since he came to power in the once war-torn North Caucasus republic in early 2008. In November 2009, Kadyrov and Sergei Bogdanchikov, then head of RosNeft, Russia’s state oil giant, wrested from oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovskii after his arrest in 2003, agreed RosNeft would build a refinery along with its Chechen affiliate ‘ChechenNeftKhimProm’ or ChNKhP (https://regnum.ru/news/1236098.html). However, RosNeft repeatedly failed to come through on beginning construction, and economically this might have made sense as most of the investment would have come from Moscow. …”