| The Chechens met the Russians in urban combat in Grozny and soon Chechen snipers took a toll on Russian forces. |
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| The letter appears to contradict Russian claims that the Chechens made no proper demands to end the standoff. |
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| The British Foreign Office met with a representative of the Chechens in January. |
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| Yeltsin had made repeated overtures to the Chechens to preserve Russia's territorial integrity. |
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| Over the next 50 years, hundreds of thousands of Chechens and Circassians were relocated to various parts of the czarist empire. |
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| Ingushetia's Bela Camp, which houses up to 3,500 displaced Chechens, is closed by the Ingush authorities. |
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| The Kremlin's claim that negotiations are infeasible will be justified, and Chechens who seek alternatives to war will be silenced. |
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| Among the resisters were the Circassians in the west and the Chechens and Dagestanis in the east, all Muslims. |
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| Officially, 93,000 Kalmyks, 68,000 Karachai people, 500,000 Chechens, 340,000 Balkars and 180,000 Tartars were deported. |
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| There are Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens and local tribesmen among the captives. |
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| Most were Uzbeks, but there were also Afghans, Chechens, Uighurs from China and a small number of Arabs. |
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| Finally, at the end of the 1970s, Chechens were allowed to return to their motherland. |
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| The measure affected Afghans, Somalis and Chechens facing return to regions beset by civil wars or with no functioning government. |
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| The military has announced the detention of more than 100 people including Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and ethnic Uighurs from western China. |
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| Those who speak non-Turkic languages include Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Circassians, Georgians, Laz, Arabs, Rom, Ossetes, Albanians, and Chechens. |
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| The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history. |
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| The Chechens therefore have retained many traditional customs and practices. |
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| Some national elites, especially the Chechens, Azeris and Georgians, accuse the country of fomenting the conflicts and of destabilizing the region. |
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| In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev decreed that the Chechens could return to their ancestral homelands. |
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| And the long-suffering Chechens who remain in their homeland have seen it return to the Russian fold. |
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| An indigenous nation of mountain herdsmen and farmers with their own language and clan-based society, the Chechens have lived in the Caucasus for thousands of years. |
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| I'll have to check and see if we've had any talk with Chechens recently. |
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| No matter how many Chechens may be slaughtered, we content ourselves with a polite wag of the finger, shrug our shoulders, then concede that massacre is an internal matter. |
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| Initial reports claimed that the hostage-takers included Chechens, residents of the neighboring province of Ingushetia, Arabs, Kazakhs and Slavs. |
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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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| 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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| In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Chechens felt themselves to be a part of the Soviet Union, because they had been born, grown up, lived, been educated and worked in that state. |
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| Two Chechens, Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov, were seized in Ciudad Real, 125 miles south of Madrid, as they tried to take a bus to France last week. |
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