The Chechens met the Russians in urban combat in Grozny and soon Chechen snipers took a toll on Russian forces. |
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Chechen hijackers commandeered a Russian passenger jet to Turkey in protest. |
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On Oct.23, 2002, Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and held hostages for three days. |
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He also implied the Russian Government of Vladimir Putin should now capitulate to Chechen demands for independence. |
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We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes. |
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Dudayev became the avatar of Chechen independence, and was elected president in October 1991 amid warnings and sabre-rattling by Moscow. |
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While the Chechen resistance remains unvanquished, its political position is weak. |
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Chechen tribesmen figure prominently in the works of some major Russian 19th century writers. |
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The US government-funded station Radio Liberty beams programmes in the Chechen and Russian languages into the republic. |
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Part religious ritual, part dance, this is the zikr, a touchstone of Chechen culture. |
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The number of languages listed for Jordan is eight, including Adyghe, Armenian, Chechen, Arabic, and four Arabic dialects. |
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He is not partisan and dealt equally with the callousness of the Chechen fighters and that of the Russians. |
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They used the Chechen language to talk with each other, but they spoke Russian to us. |
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The Chechen language is unique to the Caucasus region, and not related to any languages outside of this region. |
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Chechen rebels used ethnic Russian civilians as human shields during the brutal war in Chechnya. |
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Putin's paradox can, harrowingly enough, be tellingly illustrated by the Chechen tragedy. |
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The Chechen leadership replied it refuses to send troops to assist in quelling the rebellion in Dagestan. |
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Whoever grasps the poisoned chalice of Chechen power will need the support of Mr Kadyrov and his militia, as well as that of the Kremlin. |
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Chechen fighters launched a vast counterattack in the northern suburbs of Grozny and took back part of the Khankala district. |
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The fsb would have been particularly interested in Tamerlan because of his Chechen heritage. |
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Was Russia hoping the U. S. would ease off in turn on the Chechen question? |
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They believe there was one Korean, one Russian national, the rest were made up of Ingush, one or two northern Ossetians, and the remainder were Chechen. |
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Yet four years into the second Chechen war, victory still eludes Russia, and there are signs that the upheaval is spilling into Ingushetia and Dagestan. |
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At the end of October 1999, Chechen militants kidnapped the French press photographer Brice Fleutiaux. |
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Who except God alone will be able to fully plumb the depths of the suffering of the Chechen civilian population? |
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Outside, again, tensions have not been this high in the Chechen capital for years. |
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Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov insisted he did not order Chechen fighters to go to Ukraine. |
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On Tuesday morning rebels claimed over 100 casualties, some of them reportedly were Chechen recruits. |
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And Chechen fighters from the self-styled Vostok battalion arrived in central Donetsk today for a rally. |
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An NYPD official says an AP reporter called to ask where people of Chechen descent might congregate in New York City. |
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Authorities were also right to insist that expelling the Chechen residents, as some local Russians and Kalmyks had demanded, was not a possible solution to the conflict. |
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I am shocked to learn the news about the high number of the civilian casualty in the bombardment of the street market in the Chechen capital. |
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In July 2000, he was commissioned to participate in the second military operation in the Chechen Republic. |
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Chechen warlord Shami Basayev, who has since been killed, claimed responsibility for the storming of the school. |
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Russia is a state that kills journalists every day and that exterminated a fourth of the Chechen population. |
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Things did turn sour, though, when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater. |
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Chechen rebels hit back in 1995 by attacking the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk. |
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It is a fact obvious to us all that the loathsome acts of terrorism committed by Chechen separatists have to be condemned. |
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With Russian troops and Chechen militiamen roaming, there are few petty crimes. |
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So I feel it all the more that Russia is totally overreacting in its use of military force in the Chechen conflict. |
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Delimkhanov was wanted in connection with the murder of the Chechen commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai. |
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Every Chechen inhabitant, like every national of the Chechen Republic, is a full-fledged citizen of the Russian Federation. |
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That was also the man who pulled off the raid on Budyonnovsk, which turned the first Chechen war around. |
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The Russian Federation saw it as a useful precedent in its fight against Chechen rebels. |
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Several of these organizations have joined together to form a Monitoring Mission in Chechnya and recently began to work in the Chechen Republic. |
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First, we have the traditional Chechen desire for national freedom, which has animated most of their wars. |
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The fighting skill, courage and esprit de corps among the Chechen fighters, who were defending their homeland, contrasted with that of the average Russian soldier. |
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The two Chechen wars, fought in 1994-96 and 1999-2000, were almost unparalleled in their barbarity in the postwar era. |
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In 2009, Dubai police said a Russian politician ordered the killing of Sulim Yamadayev, another Chechen rebel. |
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She had a thick Chechen accent but she articulated each word clearly. |
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To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people. |
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His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio. |
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Chechen and other Caucasian tribes mounted a prolonged resistance to Russian conquest beginning in the early nineteenth century under Imam Shamil. |
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Until 1991, Chechnya had two official languages, Chechen and Russian. |
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The European Council on 10 and 11 December in Helsinki strongly condemned the intense bombardments of Chechen cities, the threat levelled at the residents of Grozny and the ultimatum set by the Russian military commanders. |
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The conclusions to be drawn from the above-mentioned cases are depressingly clear: For nearly a decade now, people in the Chechen Republic have lived in constant fear. |
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It is equally incredible that the entire Chechen population can be taken hostage by a former KGB man who is acting as if the Bolsheviks and Communists were still in power, as a KGB agent, in other words. |
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According to the Sunday Times, the presumed killer was Uvais Akhmadov, a Chechen war lord who, at the last moment, decided to withdraw from the plot and who sold the piece to people around Badri Patarkatsishvili. |
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The Russian Federation Ministry for Reconstruction in the Chechen Republic has established a mechanism for the provision of construction as a part of a compensation for a lost property. |
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Although the Chechens were eventually allowed to return home, Chechen social development was set back at least a generation. |
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That killing has reportedly sparked a power struggle between the FSB and the security forces of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, one of whose men is accused of the shooting. |
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And indeed, what does freedom mean for the Chechen people? |
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What this means in practice is that the human rights of the Chechen people should not be sacrificed at the altar of the war on terror, necessary though that war may be. |
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In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation in force the Chechen Republic is one of the eighty-nine constituent entities of the Federation. |
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The siege was said to have been financed by al-Qaida and masterminded by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, Russian security sources claimed. |
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As is usual these days, Kadyrov was wearing an olive-green overshirt, a form of traditional Chechen dress that he has made popular among his retinue and has required male public employees to wear to the office on Fridays. |
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By the end of the 1990s due to the criminal activities of the Chechen authorities the Republic's economy was all but totally destroyed and the means of production pilfered. |
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Wars: Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Six-Day War, Portuguese Colonial War, the South African Border War, Northern Ireland Troubles, Rhodesian Bush War, Falklands War, Gulf War, Both Chechen Wars, Balkan Wars. |
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The swift ad interim replacement of the President of the Chechen Republic and the inclusion into higher governmental posts of family members of the deceased top leaders kept the situation under control. |
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Surkov, who is on the U.S. sanctions list, is of Chechen ethnicity. |
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In 2012 Chechen authorities reported turnout at 99.55 percent. |
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In Jordan, an unlikely alliance of the local Chechen community, ministry officials and women's groups all came together around one issue: saving the Al-Azraq oasis. |
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The recent attempt by the Russian Army to suppress Chechen separatism is a dramatic reminder that the Russian Federation itself is full of ethnic groups that bitterly reject Moscow's right to rule them. |
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It considers that the presence and activities of non-governmental organizations are put at risk by the precarious security situation, thus aggravating the suffering of the Chechen people. |
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A year ago, Natalia Estemirova of the Russian Human Rights Centre Memorial was abducted outside her home in Grozny in the Chechen Republic and killed. |
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On it a young beardless man speaks Chechen and Arabic with a soft accent. |
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Sadly, the Chechen terror gangs attract many young Chechens who are otherwise afraid that they will be picked up, abused, tortured and maybe even shot by Russian troops who are completely out of control. |
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Attention quickly focussed on the alleged triggerman: a decorated thirty-three-year-old Chechen officer named Zaur Dadaev, a former deputy commander of Sever. |
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In the Caucasus, the Ottomans were able to stand ground with the help of Chechen Muslims led by Imam Shamil. |
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Putin suppressed the Chechen insurgency although sporadic violence still occurs throughout the Northern Caucasus. |
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The Chechen separatist movement of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria lacks any international recognition. |
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Examples of clans are found in Chechen, Chinese, Irish, Japanese, Polish, Scottish, Tlingit, and Somali societies. |
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In 1991, Chechnya declared independence and was named the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. |
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Shamil Basayev, a leader of the Chechen guerrilla opposition, took responsibility for the attack. |
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In 1943, almost all the Chechen, Ingush, Karachai, Kalmyk, and Balkar peoples were deported to Siberia. |
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While it might be possible to defeat the remaining Chechen fighters in the mountains over the next few months10, an extended guerrilla war seems very likely. |
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A toast-master versified in both Georgian and Chechen. |
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In so doing, let us also recognise that Chechen leaders are not the most salubrious of types and do not represent a democratic constitutional state. |
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Khattab used Chechnya to set up training camps, and he attracted the support of some prominent Chechen field commanders, such as Shamil Basayev, who, you will recall, led the Chechen forces in the Abkhaz wars. |
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As for the progress of neutralisation of Chechen terrorists in Moscow, it not only shows the ignominy of terrorism, but also the total contempt of the Russian authorities for their own citizens. |
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At the same time, I would ask you to express our abhorrence at Chechen methods and to press for a political solution to this hopeless conflict in the light of the right of self-determination, which all people have. |
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Their essays challenge the image of noble Chechen warriors fighting for freedom from the imperialist Russian bear. |
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I should like to pay tribute to his courage, but also to his clear-sightedness, because, even in his initial statements, he drew a clear distinction between his kidnappers and the Chechen people as a whole. |
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The Chechen fighters who were some of the most well-trained terrorists had entered Saida town in Eastern Reef Daraa and hid in a cottage. |
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Astonishingly, the self-confessed perpetrator of this crime, Shamil Basayev, was appointed deputy prime minister of the so-called Chechen government-in-exile on 25 August. |
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The economic and human cost of the conflict in the Chechen Republic continues to be intolerably high for the people of the Republic and for the people of Russia. |
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In conclusion, the discussion identified a disassociation of the people in Chechnya from all forms of violence, whether from the Russian forces or from the Chechen fighters. |
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Secondly, in Russian Daghestan we have once again seen the brutal action of Chechen guerrillas who beheaded the border guard commander and took hostages including local hospital workers. |
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Moscow immediately claimed that the murderous schoolhouse siege was the work of Chechen radicals aligned with al-Qaeda. |
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The second Chechen war, which started in 1999 and still fizzles on now, made that mountainous sliver of territory in the northern Caucasus the most dangerous place on the planet for a journalist. |
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According to many Chechens, Putin is not engaged in an anti-terrorist campaign but in a colonial war and a campaign of terror and genocide of the Chechen people. |
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The brutal bombing of the Chechen capital Grosny and the killing of many thousands of Chechen people have made extremists of what were probably once rational people. |
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Among the rebels who managed to escape Grozny last week was Chechen field commander Mr Shamil Basayev, who lost his right foot as he crossed a minefield. |
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The ceremony was also overshadowed by a major Chechen rebel offensive, leaving thousands of soldiers besieged in Grozny, capital of the rebel republic. |
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From the time Chechen separatists declared independence in the early 1990s, an intermittent guerrilla war has been fought between the rebel groups and the Russian military. |
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