Normal people do not try to plot the course of their upcoming flights and calculate the proximity to the largest country in the world which happens to border 14 other countries.
I consider myself a fairly normal person. On a recent flight from Istanbul to Taipei, I checked the flight path to make sure it wasn't flying over any "suspect" countries.
The airline would need to be deliberately avoiding them: the great-arc circle between those two passes directly over Grozny. Smart call to double-check that.
