Al qaeda Quote by Aslan Maskhadov

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

— Dennis Prager

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

— Vladimir Putin

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

— Aasif Mandvi

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

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

Chechnya was part of that whole wave of entities of the Soviet Union that had a very separate sense of identity, of political and…

— Fiona Hill

Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.

— Stephen Kinzer

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

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

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

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat…

— Aslan Maskhadov