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[18] [24] On 27 October 1991, Dudayev was elected president of the Chechen Republic. [18] [25] Dudayev, in his new position as president, issued a unilateral declaration of independence on 1 November 1991. [26] [27] Initially, his stated objective was for Checheno-Ingushetia to become a union republic within Russia. [28]
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov [b] (born 5 October 1976) is a Russian politician and current Head of the Chechen Republic.He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen independence movement, through his father who was the separatist-appointed mufti of Chechnya.
He became president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria after a referendum in October 1991, and unilaterally declared the republic's independence from the Soviet Union. In the First Chechen War (1994–1996), Dudayev organized a successful resistance against Russian forces before he was assassinated by a Russian airstrike.
There is a theory that the real reason why Chechens and Ingush were deported was the desire of Russia to attack Turkey, an anti-communist country, as Chechens and Ingush could impede such plans. [22] In 2004, the European Parliament recognized the deportation of Chechens and Ingush as an act of genocide. [35]
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The name "Chechens" is an exoethnonym that entered the Georgian and Western European ethnonymic tradition through the Russian language in the 18th century. [31] From the middle of the 19th century to the first few years of the Soviet state, some researchers united all Chechens and Ingush under the name "Chechens".
The Chechen genocide [12] refers to the mass casualties suffered by the Chechen people since the beginning of the Chechen–Russian conflict in the 18th century. [13] [14] The term has no legal effect, [15] although the European Parliament recognized the 1944 forced deportation of the Chechens, which killed around a third of the total Chechen population, as an act of genocide in 2004. [16]
Chechens from various European countries and Turkey traveled to Ukraine to support the country, forming two battalions named after national heroes of Chechnya. One of the battalions was named after Dzhokhar Dudayev , the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.