Prof. Mark Galeotti (NYU) has an interesting piece in The Moscow News about the recent revenge killings of expatriate Chechens living in Turkey, raising troubling questions over the extra-territorial activity of state security services (and naturally, Russia is not alone in this).

Last month, three Chechens living in Istanbul were leaving Friday prayers. Suddenly a man in a parked car opened fire on them eleven times with a silenced pistol, killing all three.

Part of a Kremlin campaign to eliminate terrorists living and working abroad? After all, one of the three was Berg-haj Musayev, Amir Khamzat. A leader in Istanbul’s Chechen community, Musayev was a close associate of rebel leader Doku Umarov and responsible for raising funds for him. (…)

Prof. Mark Galeotti (NYU) has an interesting piece in The Moscow News about the recent revenge killings of expatriate Chechens living in Turkey, raising troubling questions over the extra-territorial activity of state security services (and naturally, Russia is not alone in this).

Last month, three Chechens living in Istanbul were leaving Friday prayers. Suddenly a man in a parked car opened fire on them eleven times with a silenced pistol, killing all three.

Part of a Kremlin campaign to eliminate terrorists living and working abroad? After all, one of the three was Berg-haj Musayev, Amir Khamzat. A leader in Istanbul’s Chechen community, Musayev was a close associate of rebel leader Doku Umarov and responsible for raising funds for him. (…)