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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
Chechen people - People from Chechnya or people of Chechen ethnicity. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ...
Chechen diaspora in the United States (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Chechen diaspora" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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 ...