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Chechen man may marry a woman of any nationality but a Chechen woman should marry only a Chechen man.

She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.

The act: The Kazakh-born Yandarbiyev was one of the central figures in the Chechen independence movement's turn toward radical Islamism.

A statement from Chechen President Kadyrov said the remaining people inside the building had been freed in a 20-minute security operation.

Chechnya, 1996 - Chechen rebel fighting along the front line against the Russian army.

And this was but one of many punitive actions taken by Chechen authorities against relatives of alleged rebels.

A Russian man, an evacuee from the Chechen Capital Grozny, reaches out for a final pat of his dog, Jan.

Militia are Chechen based faction, who are more advanced than insurgents but are not like the conventional armies. More info TBA.

Post-Soviet Russia is no different, as the two Chechen wars, with their tens of thousands of dead, have demonstrated.

Half-Russian and half-Chechen as she was, she was caught in the middle.

These are the ones who wanted her silenced. She really was the only Chechen activist to tackle these outrageous cases.

Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the Moscow bombings in the name of Islam.

Ms Estemirova did not speak Chechen fluently.

Before Ms Estemirova died, she was investigating abuses by Chechen security agencies under Mr Kadyrov's de facto control.

Marines of the Black Sea Fleet were ready to take part in Chechen wars, but the Ukrainian government prevented them.

Authorities say two police officers and a government worker were killed in the attack in the Chechen capital, Grozny.

By Chechen war, can also be seen in frailty of military forces in Russia were unable to sustain a decent war.

Mr Markelov had represented a Chechen family, one of whose members was raped and murdered by a Russian officer in 2000.

Like his own political career, the country Mr Putin will bequeath has been formed by its long, coarsening Chechen misadventure.

Kabardino - Balkar Republic Chechen Republic, Dagestan Republic, Ingushetia Republic belong to the Russian North Caucasus Federal District.

If Mariam was indeed a terrorist, she appears to have little in common with Chechen suicide bombers.

The blasts contributed to the eruption of a new Chechen war, which in turn helped to secure Mr Putin's election as president in 2000.

A Chechen man carrying his belongings out from a burning house in Grozny, in an undated photo.

Chechen volunteer plays a piano in one of the Russian-bombed main streets of Grozny, Chechnya, in 1998.

Human Rights Watch has criticised Russia for allowing the Chechen authorities to introduce a compulsory Islamic dress code for women.

A website with ties to Chechen separatists said Monday's deadly metro blasts in Moscow were committed by Chechen militants, CNN reported.

The Chechen insurgents appear only as shadowy, vicious figures, slitting their captives' throats or trading them as slaves.

Tsarni said his brother had little influence over the two boys and that they have shamed what he called "the Chechen ethnicity. "

He later told his security forces virtually every Chechen family has a rebel, which would put the number in the many thousands.

But during the second Chechen War, he switched sides, commanding a unit connected to Russian military intelligence.

Chechen group involved in the Beslan school siege in 2004 took responsibility and its leader promised more attacks.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian Chechen president, considered her an enemy.

Six people were killed when Islamist militants stormed the Chechen parliament building in Grozny.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian Chechen president, considered her an enemy. And she died as one.

It is not a belief apparently held by the Chechen or Russian authorities.

Vladimir Putin's vow to rub out Chechen rebels "in the shithouse" helped to propel him into the presidency.

After visiting Chechnya at bin Laden, the bodyguards in there he was trusted to the Chechen people.

Here, a Chechen soldier poses over a toppled statue of Lenin in October 1991 in Grozny, Chechnya's capital.

His call saved the hostages' lives, and led to talks that ended the first Chechen war.

And the Chechen tragedy helps to explain why Mr Putin's neurotic bluster plays so well among ordinary Russians.

I found out later it's the same Valium gas the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists.

So did the shameful Chechen war of 1994-96, which unleashed the might of the Russian war machine on the small breakaway republic.

More than 300 died, executed in cold blood by the Chechen rebel captors, who killed in the crossfire .

The Tsarnaev brothers came to the United States with their family as refugees from the Chechen conflict with Russia.

As peace was established in Chechnya, Mr. Yamadayev became a rival to the Kremlin-backed Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov.

Chechen rebels' dreams of opening a "Volga front" have withered.

A man fills canisters with water at a dilapidated housing estate in the Chechen capital of Grozny October 8, 2006.

The Chechen language and culture were suppressed.

Around 15, 000 Chechen refugees are still living squalidly in Ingushetia, in train wagons, warehouses and goods containers.

These "black widows" , who featured in Vladimir Putin's 1999-2005 Chechen war, generally acted from motives of personal revenge.

Grachev played a key role in initiating and leading the First Chechen War.

Chechen rebels have clashed with the government in two wars.

A prominent Chechen, Sulim Yamadayev, was reportedly shot dead in Dubai.

Both lived near Boston and are of Chechen origin.

Russia's onslaught on the Chechen city of Grozny in the mid-1990s is reckoned to have killed some 20, 000 civilians.

Everyone in the republic had memories of Stalin's deportation of the entire Chechen people in 1944.

In fact the first Chechen war was over by 1996 and the economy was recovering before Mr Putin came to power.

On August 19, a Mi-26 military transport helicopter was shot down by Chechen rebels with missile. 118 people died while another 29 injured.

A troubling precedent came last year with the killing of a Chechen political figure.

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