About the causes and consequences of the general crisis experienced by Chechnya in the last decade. The formation of a secret society. The ideological content of the Chechen Troubles. Analysis of the situation: facts and events that were not widely publicized, which were known only to a narrow circle of people. The opinion of the author, who knows his subject: “they knock out a wedge with a wedge and like is treated with like. If we proceed from this folk wisdom, then the opposition of such a secret force as the FSB to the Ichkerian secret society system looks quite logical.”