No need to go back hundreds of years in this case. As you say troll: Actually, the Chechens had self-rule after the first war (ie in 1999). Then came the bombings of the apartment buildings in Moscow (which some claim Putin did to get elected) and the war started up again.

And the evidence of Russian "security" (the FSB) being involved in those apartment buildings bombing seems pretty strong. In one case "local residents and police caught individuals in an apartment building planting what appeared to be explosives, which the FSB subsequently claimed were bags of sugar that were part of a security "exercise." The Chechens had nothing to gain from those bombings, and everything to k,lose; those Russians who wanted to renew the war had a great deal to gain. And so especially did those who wanted Putin to be elected.