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Chechnya leader proposes Grozny as host city

"We are completing a sports complex in Grozny which is up to international standards... Naturally, we will offer our city for other matches," Ramzan Kadyrov, the Moscow-backed leader said on the official site chechnya.gov.ru.

A decade after Moscow drove separatists from power in the second of two wars, peace in Muslim Chechnya is shaky at best.

Russia, which on Thursday won the rights to host the world's biggest sporting event, is however unlikely to bring any matches to the North Caucasus, which includes Chechnya.

President Dmitry Medvedev last year said the region was Russia's biggest domestic political problem.