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Russian federal control was restored in the Second Chechen War of 1999–2009, with Chechen politics being dominated by the former Ichkerian mufti Akhmad Kadyrov, and later his son Ramzan Kadyrov. The republic covers an area of 17,300 square kilometres (6,700 square miles), with a population of over 1.5 million residents as of 2021. [4]
There are also small Christian and atheist minorities, although their numbers are unknown in Chechnya; in Kazakhstan, they are roughly 3% and 2% of the Chechen population respectively. [110] A Chechen man prays during the Battle of Grozny. The flame in the background is from a gas line hit by shrapnel. (January 1995)
The First Chechen War began in December 1994, when Russian troops were sent to Chechnya to fight the separatist forces. [51] During the Battle of Grozny (1994–95), the city's population dropped from 400,000 to 140,000. [52]
Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023. ... (2023) China: 11,684,177 ...
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov vowed support. But when a “partial mobilization” was announced two weeks ago, Kadyrov defied the Kremlin, saying Chechen ...
Historian William Flemming released calculations giving a minimum of 132,000 Chechens and Ingush who died between 1944 and 1950. In comparison, their number of births in that period was only 47,000. Thus, the Chechen and ingush population fell from 478,479 in 1944 to 452,737 in 1948. [35] From 1939 to 1959, the Chechen population grew by 2.5%.
They demanded an end to the Second Chechen War. They killed some of the hostages and then Russian special forces stormed the building. 2002 Grozny truck bombing: December 27, 2002 Grozny, Chechnya 86 The truck bombing of the Chechen parliament kills 83 people. 2003 Znamenskoye suicide bombing: May 12, 2003 Znamenskoye, Nadterechny District ...
According to this view of the ethnic situation in Ichkeria, the primary cause of Russian emigration was the extensive bombing of Grozny (where four out of five, or nearly 200,000 Russians in Chechnya lived before the war) by the Russian military during the First Chechen War. [41]