Guess you guys didn't get the memo, the Russians are busy fighting in
Chechnya.
All their internal strife is from messing around in that country, when an apartment building blows up in Moscow, the first group they go chasing after is the Chechnyans
Very fucked up war to say the least, the Russians aren't members of the politically correct way of bombing, read up on fuel air bombs, really nasty shit.
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/chech0215b.htm