President Vladimir Putin made a clandestine visit on Tuesday to the war-ruined capital of Chechnya, whose Kremlin-backed leader was killed by a bomb two days earlier. The secrecy surrounding his morning visit to Grozny, the Chechen capital, underlined the region's tenuous security. Despite a massive troop presence in Grozny, rebels and sympathizers commit frequent attacks in the capital. Putin's trip, which wasn't announced until he had returned to Moscow, came about 48 hours after Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and at least six other people were killed when a bomb tore through a Grozny stadium where dignitaries had gathered for Russia's Victory Day holiday.

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