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Related ethnic groups Other Nakh peoples ( Ingush , Bats , Orstkhoys ) The Chechens ( / ˈ tʃ ɛ tʃ ɛ n z , tʃ ə ˈ tʃ ɛ n z / CHETCH -enz, chə- CHENZ ; [ 20 ] Chechen : Нохчий , Noxçiy , Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy ), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks , [ 21 ] are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh ...
Chechen people - People from Chechnya or people of Chechen ethnicity. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ...
As of early 2008, approximately 10,000 Chechens live in Germany. [9] In Poland, almost 3,600 Chechens have applied for refugee status in the first eight months of 2007 alone and over 6,000 in the next four months. [17] [18] As of 2008, the Chechens are the greatest group (90% in 2007 [18]) of refugees arriving in Poland, on the eastern border ...
The Chechen diaspora (Chechen: Нохчийн диаспора, romanized: Noxçiyn diaspora) is a term used to collectively describe the communities of Chechen people who live outside of Chechnya; this includes Chechens who live in other parts of Russia.
Following the First Chechen War of 1994–1996 with Russia, Chechnya gained de facto independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, although de jure it remained a part of Russia. 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 ...
Movsar Barayev, militia leader during the Second Chechen War, who led seizure of Moscow theater that led to deaths of 170 people; Shamil Basayev, militant Islamist and participant of the Chechen resistance movement; Dzhokhar Dudayev, Soviet Air Force general and Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Germany" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The group later moved into extortion as capitalism penetrated the Soviet economy, and at this point Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev, at the time a university student and part of an underground student movement dedicated to Chechen independence, was brought in as an enforcer. The more ideological Noukhayev imposed an additional condition on businesses ...