It may have something to do with Chechnya being a shithole. Rest of it is a result of corruption. Being corrupt was a pretty obvious and cool thing back in the USSR, if you were poor and someone higher up wasnt your drinkingbuddy there was no possible way to get anything. Its still in their blood. And it kills the countries efficency hard. I like to occasionally listen to older people who talk about the USSR rule. Town halls filled with cigarsmoke, pretty much the whole cities administration being utterly shitfaced drunk in the middle of the day, some fat bastards just sleeping in their offices etc etc. And that kinda was in every town, even deep in the Motherland.