Zakayev was a theater actor in the Soviet Union before he joined the first Chechen war of independence. Ilyas Akhmadov. The separatist foreign minister under Maskhadov, Akhmadov now lives in the ...

“History repeats itself. We won the First Chechen War. They took their time, rebuilt their army while dividing us, and eventually, they won. They will try the same with Ukraine. You can’t ...

I distinctly recall being six or seven years old when I first heard ... more than 100,000 Chechen and Ingush deaths during the deportation. In 2004, during the raging war in Chechnya, the European ...