Attention Quote by Fiona Hill

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

— Aasif Mandvi

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

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

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

— Dennis Prager

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

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

Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and…

— Fiona Hill

The refugee problem is definitely a disaster for the entire region. Putin - the refugee problem in Chechnya was largely contained inside of Russia…

— Fiona Hill

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

— Ramzan Kadyrov

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

We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif