I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

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

— Vladimir Putin

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own…

— Vladimir Putin

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

— Vladimir Putin

International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their…

— Vladimir Putin

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

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

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

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

— Scott Anderson

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

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

“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

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

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

— Boris Yeltsin