Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long… — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
Putin's treatment of Chechnya became a cautionary tale of what would happen to rebels and terrorists - and indeed to entire groups… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president… — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
“Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
“The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn't change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be… — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
“If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
