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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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
Ramzan Kadyrov is sensitive to people criticising Chechnya from abroad, says Michael Dennis, an expert on Chechen politics at the University of Texas.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
But Aishat Baimuradova is the first known Chechen woman to have died in suspicious circumstances, not long after fleeing Russia.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
Chechen officials have consistently denied these allegations, complaining of fabrications aimed at discrediting the region.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
His clothing was not rich, but he wore it with that peculiar Cossack foppishness which consists in imitating the Chechen brave.
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
Other volunteers come from the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as from ethnic minorities that have large populations in Russia: Chechens, Tatars and Turkic-speaking groups.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
According to Bosnian media, the Chechens arrived in Bosnia from Turkey and Serbia, the only two countries in Europe with direct flights from Russia during the war.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Chechens, an ethnic group originating in Chechnya, in the south-west of Russia, are mostly Muslim.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2022
Even the impoverished, much-detested and powerless Muslims of the northern Caucasus - Chechens, Circassians and Dagestanis - have benefited from this newfound awareness of their electoral power.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin
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