With the little I know, I still think the best option for Russia would be to just let them have an election again and don't even bother with the region again except for trade. As for Putin, even once he leaves office he'll definitely have someone to do his bidding installed no doubt. Quite a few Russians I've spoken to think that democracy cannot work in Russia, that they need a "strong hand" to guide them.
The only thing I can recall involving Russia and Chechens from my childhood is this disgusting act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
Yep, we need a "strong hand", but after Stalin period we didn't had one

Stalin was very good, we won a huge war, we started spaceship program, we were the most progressive economy etc. etc., don't listen to anybody who is talking shit about him, the repressions, thestarvation and some other crap, there were a lot of bad people in the government in that period and Stalin couldn't remove them in 1 day, he spent around 6-7 years to do it! And the propaganda against Stalin in USSR has begun because of Khrushchev, jealous motherfucker, he was anti-stalinist, he was attributing all the troubles and tribulations of the Soviet Union to Stalin's name! Even today, Stalin is the of the most popular personalities in Russia, but many are doing everything to discredit him. Look what kind of personal items he left after his death:
1. Notebook for records in a cover of gray skin color;
2. Notebook, leather, red;
3. Personal records, notes, compiled on separate sheets of paper and vouchers. Numbered only 67 sheets (sixty-seven)
4. Overall notebook with records cover is red;
5. Smoking pipes - 5. These 4 boxes and specials. devices, and tobacco. In the office of Comrade Stalin: books, desk accessories, gifts are not included in the list.
The master bedroom and dressing room:
6. Tunic white - 2 pieces.
7. Gray tunic, p / day - 2 pcs.;
8. Tunic of dark green - 2 pieces.;
9. Pants - 10;
He was absolutely modest leader of the country
As for terrorism - fuck'em all, for me terrorism has no nationality and i have no problems with the muslims, but whenever the normal peaceful muslims are telling me that there is no such a thing like "holy war" in Quran it's makes me sick, day after day radical muslims are kiling people, and i can't call it "holy war" at all because mostly they are killing other muslims just because some of them are sunni, others are shiites or salafis. Just look at the boston terrorits for example, what they lacked in life? The oThey were so lucky to escape from Chechnya during the war, pulled the lucky ticket and moved to USA, they had a normal life, younger was in college, older was boxing, so why the hell they did that?! Like i heard Obama promised citizenship to all illegal or halflegal people in the USA, so just live ur life and enjoy, but no, it's better to blow up somebody
http://vk.com/id160300242 - this is 2nd terrorist account in the russian social network, last time he was at the website on 19 april 5am moscow time ~ around midnight in Boston, so police were already around their crib at that time lol
I'm going to translate you some posts that were published there by other users
"May allah forgive you. Death to all infidels!" -
http://vk.com/chen_hong - muslim
"Kill them all! I want you to kill them both by day and night! They did not understand the lesson! Embedding of the airplane in their mother For the sake of Allah do it. Alhamdullilyah!"
http://vk.com/soslan_95 - muslim
"Insha Allah! Death to America!"
http://vk.com/id160300242 - muslim
"Infidels got his own! Today Moscow is ours, and soon Boston take Inshallah!!"
http://vk.com/ilham_90 muslim
What the fuck is going on with all of them?
On the other hand, conspiracy theory has begun already, people are talking about this organization -
www.thecraft.com and check this picture
http://cs521611.vk.me/u9610198/doc/6db5c69240f0/file.jpg
@AFL_ITALIA Looking strange, what these army mens are doing there all together?