Disaster Quote by Fiona Hill

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

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something…

— Yoweri Museveni

We've been talking about the Syrian refugee crisis a lot, in the news in the U.K. and possibly the U.S., but it isn't the…

— Nadine Shah

Putin's treatment of Chechnya became a cautionary tale of what would happen to rebels and terrorists - and indeed to entire groups of people…

— Fiona Hill

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

Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression,…

— Marco Rubio

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

— Michael Leiter

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

— Vladimir Putin

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

— Noam Chomsky

We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between…

— Poul Hartling

The capital city of Grozny in Chechnya was reduced completely to rubble, and Putin thought this was worthwhile because it kept the state together.

— Fiona Hill