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.

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