Chechnya Quotes

• You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Russia, Over You, Criticise

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Peace, Political, Want

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mother, Father, Decision

  "Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies". news.bbc.co.uk. April 23, 2007.

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• The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  People, Political, Determined

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• Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Federation, Parcel

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• It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Army, Fighting, Russia

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• A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Vaccines, Long, Als

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

  Aslan Maskhadov

  Love, Peace, War

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• Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Ideas, World, Territory

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

  Vladimir Putin

  Looks, Natural, Disaster

  Address to the Residents of the Chechen Republic, en.kremlin.ru. March 16, 2003.

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• We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Strong, Law, Police

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• 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 I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Russia, Police

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• One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Views, Years, Organization

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• Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Military, Troops

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• Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Country, Criminals, World

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• 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 objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

  Vladimir Putin

  Today, Problem, Century

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• International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

  Vladimir Putin

  Real, Struggle, Mad

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• Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

  Dennis Prager

  Pressure, Cookers, Islamists

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• We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

  Anthony Marra

  Rhetorical, Subjects, Lightheartedness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Might, Narnia, Wells

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• I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

  Vladimir Putin

  Corruption

  "Vladimir Putin mocks Moscow's 'condom-wearing' protesters" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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