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Extraordinary footage filmed late last year shows Ramzan Kadyrov addressing a stadium in Grozny filled with thousands of armed Chechen police and special forces members dressed in camouflage standing to attention around the stadium.

In January, several hundred thousand people gathered for a march in Grozny "in defence of the prophet Mohammad", to condemn the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

Russian news agencies said a 30-year-old man who was a suspect in the Nemtsov murder had blown himself up with a grenade when police tried to detain him in Grozny, the Chechen capital – an event liable to raise suspicions.

It also bombed the airport at Grozny, the capital, but denied it had plans to invade.See article: Russia's troubled southern rimSerb members pulled out of the Kosovo Transitional Council, which advises the province's UN administration, in protest at the creation of a new civilian "protection corps".

"He helps everyone," says a woman in Grozny, just returned from exile to a refurbished building near Minutka Square, once the site of savage fighting.

A few hours later, their bodies were found in the boot near Grozny, riddled with bullets.

To make things worse, Moscow's envoy to Grozny, Valentin Vlasov, was taken hostage on May Day.Ivan Rybkin, a former negotiator with the Chechens who is influential in the lower house of Russia's parliament, argues that the Kremlin should pay the Chechen statelet the money promised last May and win some leverage over it.

A Grozny doctor says that over half the cattle in the republic have tuberculosis, with ever more children falling ill through drinking bad milk.Poverty, combined with a surplus of guns, has triggered a wave of kidnappings, making the republic a no-go area for foreigners and blocking all aid.

A few hours before Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, was to start his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday, Chechen insurgents launched an attack on Grozny, the Chechen capital.

He will be highly vulnerable: Mr Kadyrov's assassination was only the latest in a series of attacks, among them a car-bomb in December 2002 that destroyed the Chechen government headquarters in Grozny.

This week it boiled up again as the rebels killed several dozen Russian soldiers, including a clutch of top brass, and raided the two main cities, Grozny and Gudermes.