Weighing Chechnya's Presidential Contenders

After nine years in office, popular Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has decided that he is finished. In a Feb. 27 interview with NTV television, he declared that he will leave his post in April at the end of his current term, saying that he has reached his limits and that his time is past. He also made it clear that, despite rumors, he will not be taking a position in the federal government but will retire from public life to focus on his family and his religious studies....