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The first Chechen settlers arrived in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. They are a small minority group with a population numbering only several hundred, as of 2013.
Chechnya, [a] officially the Chechen Republic, [b] is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe , between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea .
The government of Chechnya accused him of fleeing to Syria and joining the Islamic State and subsequently issued an arrest warrant for him. [6] To defend himself from such accusations, he took to YouTube to speak publicly and denounce the abuses of Ramzan Kadyrov's regime.
After the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Putin argued that his campaign against Chechnya was no different from the “global war on terror” launched by President George W. Bush, despite ...
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (/ ɪ tʃ ˈ k ɛr i ə / itch-KERR-ee-ə; Chechen: Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, romanized: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; Russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия, romanized: Chechenskaya Respublika Ichkeriya; abbreviated as "ChRI" or "CRI"), known simply as Ichkeria, and also known as Chechnya, is a former de facto ...
While Chechnya, a conservative Muslim-majority republic in the North Caucasus, has remained part of Russia after it waged two brutal wars for independence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has ...
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 peoples native to the North Caucasus. [22]
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.