Being Quote by Ramzan Kadyrov

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

“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

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

— Vladimir Putin

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a…

— Aslan Maskhadov

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

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

“The Russian action in Chechnya could be likened to the British Army reducing Edinburgh to rubble and expelling a couple of million Scottish people…

— Amjad M. Jaimoukha

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

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

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

— Alexei Navalny

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

— Vladislav Surkov