Chechen
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Chechens,
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Chechen
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a member of a Sunni Muslim people living in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas, closely related to the Ingush.
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the Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen.
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"It was the same with the soldiers of the first and second Chechen wars," he said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Investigators also found a document Ott had allegedly written after the 2019 murder of a Georgian man of Chechen origin in Berlin by an agent sent by Moscow.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
She took part in the negotiations for Nord-Ost, the 2002 hostage crisis at a Moscow theatre, after the Chechen rebels specifically requested her.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Hiba, an Alawite woman in Baniyas, told the BBC that Chechen fighters loyal to the government had attacked her neighbourhood.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
On the low bank, a little to one side, could be seen the flat-roofed clay houses and the funnel-shaped chimneys of a Chechen village.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
His 1999-2009 war in Chechnya, though brutal, was waged within Russia and there was no prospect of outside intervention to help the Chechens.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2023
The ethnic Chechens gathered near the Maljevac border crossing, in northwest Bosnia’s Krajina region include families with children.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
"We are one family with Buryats, Chechens and other representatives of our multinational and multi-confessional country," Ms Zakharova later wrote on Telegram.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2022
"We want to achieve freedom and independence for our peoples," he added, referring to Chechens and other ethnic minorities in the Caucasus region.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2022
Long long ago their Old Believer ancestors fled from Russia and settled beyond the Terek among the Chechens on the Greben, the first range of wooded mountains of Chechnya.
From The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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