The legacy of this war is how some governments claim to care about human rights. When it doesn't fit them any help the human rights of ordinary people. Also since non-Chechen population in Chechnya quickly disappeared (was slaughtered, enslaved, or fled), Chechen criminal mobs with full support of the Russian democratic government widened their activity on the other territories of the Russia. Now hostages were taken not only near Chechen borders, but also practically on the whole territory of the democratic Russia. What makes it even worse is all of the civilians involved in this war, for example if some of Chechen bandits occasionally fell in the hands of the Russian law enforcement forces he usually was quickly exchanged to hostages held in Chechnya. Sometimes, when specially brutal and wild Chechen bandit was occasionally arrested in Russia then high rank Russian official was taken hostage during specially organised operation. He was further exchanged to criminal in question. By the way, already when Chechnya became in fact independent from Russia, more then half of the Chechen population fled to “hated imperialistic Russia”. Chechnya itself become safe heaven for drugs production and trafficking, printing of the faked money. Chechen territory was used by criminals (not only Chechens) as an escape from justice. The war was doing opposite of what Russia was fighting for. Every attempt to organise resistance to Chechens was treated by Ministry of Truth, human rights activists as manifestations of Russian Nazism and imperialistic legacy. Many interesting subjects can be traced in Checheno-Democratic Russian relationship. For example, Berezovsky, the author of the famous phrase “Russia will pay ANY price to Chechnya”, in the process of pacification of Chechnya tried to legalise Chechens terrorist mobs and to include them to regular Russian Army as an independent units. The aim was to obtain independent guard, loyal only to the Kremlin family, for support of Jewish oligarchs by the Russian Army was questionable, to put it mildly. Only special features of the Chechens national character made this project impossible. This shows how much a country will do to get what the want. They don't care about human rights if it stops them from getting what they want.