Chechnya... For many years in a row, newspapers, radio and television have been bringing to us bloody horror: the corpses of soldiers and officers, burnt infantry fighting vehicles, settlements ruled by the militants of “President Maskhadov”. This did not start yesterday. But the tsarist government coped with the violent Caucasus. Post-Soviet - no. Insane steps of the military leadership, mediocre steps of the political leadership, absence (for independent reasons) of special events of the FSB, which would ensure (potentially) any actions of the military. There is no end to this. The Chechen wheel, like Moloch, devours people, and who can stop it? And when? A. Mikhailov’s book is about this.