But the old powers' strength is waning.

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But Mr Putin needs to start, if only because it is hard to see how new powers for Russia's troops and law-enforcement agencies will succeed in ending the war in Chechnya, where any supposed limits on their old powers in the past were anyway ignored.

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This spat will not be the last, and the combatants in future tussles will include old offline powers.

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