How To Use Chechen In A Sentence
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“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror.
The Return
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The Kremlin's claim that negotiations are infeasible will be justified, and Chechens who seek alternatives to war will be silenced.
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News reports also cited Russian officials as pledging that elections for a new Chechen president would take place within four months, as called for in the republic's constitution.
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A Chechenlanguage theater and national Vaikakhk dance troupe began work.
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His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio.
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For the past three years he has been locked in an unwinnable war against the Chechens and has opposed their demands for autonomy by deploying large numbers of troops against them.
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He will have authority over the Kremlin-appointed Chechen administrator, Akhmed Kadyrov.
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She had a thick Chechen accent but she articulated each word clearly.
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The device killed Ismailov and his Chechen driver instantly.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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If Russian soldiers abduct and murder a Chechen in Grozny, that is not counted as terrorism, if Chechens do the same in Moscow, it is.
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The decay of the military, resulting from decreased funding and the spread of corruption (both of which Yeltsin abetted: he had no interest in maintaining or strengthening an institution that was at best lukewarm toward his rule), was popularly perceived to have led to Russia's humiliating defeat during the first Chechen war, in 1994-1996.
Russia Is Finished
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Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action.
The Return
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There are Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens and local tribesmen among the captives.
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While the Chechen resistance remains unvanquished, its political position is weak.
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Dudayev became the avatar of Chechen independence, and was elected president in October 1991 amid warnings and sabre-rattling by Moscow.
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An indigenous nation of mountain herdsmen and farmers with their own language and clan-based society, the Chechens have lived in the Caucasus for thousands of years.
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Chechen hijackers commandeered a Russian passenger jet to Turkey in protest.
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That first Chechen war ended in humiliating defeat for the Russian forces in 1996.
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No matter how many Chechens may be slaughtered, we content ourselves with a polite wag of the finger, shrug our shoulders, then concede that massacre is an internal matter.
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When a small bald man, famed for his insane drive and frightening monomania in pursuit of his goals, was found floating dead in the Baltic, Chechen separatists were quick to claim responsibility, not realising that, instead of Russia's latterday tsar, they'd taken the life of one of snooker's favourite sons.
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Surkov, who handles political operations and relations with the Duma, is half Chechen but second to none in his hard line on Chechnya issues.
The Accidental Autocrat
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Their rationale for that demand, as explained by the union's chairman, Magomed Shamilov, to Caucasus Knot, was the proposal Bastrykin floated last week at a meeting of top prosecutor's office staff that Medvedev attended, to create a database containing the fingerprints of the entire North Caucasus population. condemned that proposal as discriminatory; Chechen Republic human rights ombudsman Nurdi Nukhadjiyev termed it anticonstitutional and a violation of citizens 'rights.
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A Russian man, an evacuee from the Chechen Capital Grozny, reaches out for a final pat of his dog, Jan. 21, 1995.
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The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history.
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Three simultaneous hostage crises involving Chechen rebels added to a sense of unease.
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He also implied the Russian Government of Vladimir Putin should now capitulate to Chechen demands for independence.
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Chechen tribesmen figure prominently in the works of some major Russian 19th century writers.
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To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people.
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Besides an embittered intelligentsia, anti-Chechen barriers in higher education and industry, along with the high birth rate, generated a large “subproletariat” of underemployed, rural young men, dependent on migratory work.
The Return
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Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action.
The Return
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“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror.
The Return
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During the first and second wars, Chechen rebels sought to acquire radioactive and biological materials, plotted to hijack a nuclear submarine and cased military nuclear installations.
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The Russians now appear ready to capture more territory from the Chechens.
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We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes.
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Finally, at the end of the 1970s, Chechens were allowed to return to their motherland.
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A Chechen Mujahedeen Terrorist video taped the gruesome execution of 6 Russian soldiers.
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The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history.
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Chechen rebels have branded him a traitor.
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Yeltsin had made repeated overtures to the Chechens to preserve Russia's territorial integrity.
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Dudayev became the avatar of Chechen independence, and was elected president in October 1991 amid warnings and sabre-rattling by Moscow.
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Yet four years into the second Chechen war, victory still eludes Russia, and there are signs that the upheaval is spilling into Ingushetia and Dagestan.
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Despite restarting hostilities, the Russians proved unprepared when a Chechen offensive in August, led by Basayev, swept back and retook Grozny.
The Return
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The fragile peace has not dispelled old RussianChechen suspicions.
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But if someone is saying that Kremlin oppresses poor Chechens, I think that it is too soft against them.
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On Oct.23, 2002, Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and held hostages for three days.
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According to Johanna Nichols “The Origin of the Chechen and Ingush: A Study in Alpine Linguistic and Ethnic Geography,” Anthropological Linguistics 46, no. 2 2004: 129–155, at 131, the term includes the Chechen, Ingush, Melxii, Kisti, and Arshtxoi.
The Return
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The Russians now appear ready to capture more territory from the Chechens.
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The Russians now appear ready to capture more territory from the Chechens.
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Things did turn sour, though, when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater.
