Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31…

I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute…

— Barack Obama

In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And…

— Vladimir Putin

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who…

— Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized…

— Akhmad Kadyrov

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not…

— Akhmad Kadyrov

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could…

— Akhmad Kadyrov

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to…

— Stephen Kinzer

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to…

— Boris Yeltsin

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya

— Boris Yeltsin

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

— Anderson Cooper

For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over time came…

— Fiona Hill

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give them no…

— Roméo Dallaire

People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman and elsewhere…

— Fiona Hill

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

— Vladimir Putin