Economy Quote by Fiona Hill

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

— Vladislav Surkov

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

— Stephen Kinzer

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

— Vladimir Putin

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how…

— Aslan Maskhadov

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

— Aasif Mandvi

The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried…

— Peter Bergen

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

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

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States and the…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I am a son of the Chechen people. I am no different from anyone else.

— Ramzan Kadyrov