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The Chechens (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ tʃ ɛ n z, tʃ ə ... According to a 2021 Rosstat study Chechnya ranked as the tallest region in Russia for men ... North Caucasian Muslims ...
Jaimoukha argues that while all these cultures probably were made by people included among the genetic ancestors of the Chechens, it was either the Koban or Kharachoi culture that was the first culture made by the cultural and linguistic ancestors of the Chechens (meaning the Chechens first arrived in their homeland 3000–4000 years ago ...
By 1959, Chechens and Ingush already comprised 41% of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. [103] 58.2% of Chechens and 45.3% of Ingushetians returned to their native lands by that year. [105] By 1970, this peaked with 83.0% of all Chechens and 72.1% of all Ingush being registered in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.
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]
The majority of Chechens (approx. 2 million) and Ingush (approx. 1 million people) [80] are Muslim of the Shafi`i school. Kists (about 15,400 people) are mainly Sunni Muslims with a Georgian Orthodox minority, while Bats (approx. 3,000 people) are Christian (Georgian Orthodox). [79] By rite, most Chechens are Qadiris, with a considerable ...
As many Chechens sympathize with Palestinians, there is a significant hostility against Chechens in Israel. In 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly compared Hamas with the Chechens, stating that they are terrorists, in response to Russia and Turkey's quest to not exclude Hamas in the peace process between Israel and Palestine.
Some Chechens were controlled by regional teips, or clans, despite the existence of pro- and anti-Russian political structures. In the 2024 Russian presidential election , which critics called rigged and fraudulent, [ 78 ] Russian President Vladimir Putin won 98.99% of the vote in Chechnya.
According to Kadyrov, men legally marrying more than one wife would be more honest than having many mistresses, and would resolve Russia's demographic problem. [233] In April 2018, he stated that all Muslim men are permitted by Allah to have four wives but discouraged having the marriages officially registered.