Chechnya Quote by Boris Yeltsin Download Open image “You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.” — Boris Yeltsin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chechnya Criticise Criticise Russia Getting over you Over you Right Criticise Russia Russia Chechnya
What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
“if you didn’t get involved in anything controversial—politics, human rights, or anything to do with Chechnya—then you could get on with life and enjoy… — Bill Browder 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 made combat… — Aslan Maskhadov Copy Share Image
Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia. — Ramzan Kadyrov Copy Share Image
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have… — Anne Applebaum 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 enough for… — Aslan Maskhadov 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 state. And… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
“You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.” — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. — Vladimir Putin 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 state. And… — Vladimir Putin 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 and elsewhere… — 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 them no… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
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 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 time came… — Fiona Hill 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
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 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 preparing to… — Boris Yeltsin 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 peoples to… — Stephen Kinzer 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 Chechnya. — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
