The Vatican's centuries-old secrecy over the way it handles its money will no longer be an excuse to avoid its obligations under international and Italian criminal law to combat money-laundering operations by third parties, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
And, though Mr Kadyrov's killing gives Mr Putin an excuse to bring Chechnya back under direct Kremlin control, as some Russian politicians have been demanding, this would not be an attractive option given that all attempts to impose Moscow's will on the unruly Chechens have failed.