Chechen–Russian conflict
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The Chechen–Russian conflict was the centuries-long ethnic and political conflict, often armed, between the Russian, Soviet and Imperial Russian governments and various Chechen forces. The recent phas
Chechen artillerymen in 1885
Statue of Aleksey Yermolov in Grozny with one of his quotes in reference to Chechens: "There is no people more vile and insidious under the sun." The statue was reinstated in 1949, four years after the Chechens were ethnically cleansed from their homeland, and it stood until 1989. In modern times Yermolov has been accused of genocide.
A Chechen fighter with a Borz submachine gun, 1995
Akhmad Kadyrov (right), formerly a leading separatist mufti, had switched sides in 2000
Sheikh Mansur
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Sheikh Mansur was a Chechen military commander and Islamic leader who led a resistance movement against Russian expansion into the Caucasus from 1785 until his capture in 1791. Sheikh Mansur is consid
A modern imagined depiction of Sheikh Mansur
