Chechnya is an eight predominantly Muslim nation of the Republic of the spread of the north face of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea - which contains some of Europe's highest mountain -. The area is a patchwork of independent nation, speak different dialects, have a history of intense hostility between each other, which is eclipsed only by their historical tensions with Russia.
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Chain center covers an area of ??approximately 6,600 square miles in about 1.2 million Chechen Republic, is a fierce mountain people who to speak Noxchi Mott, most of their neighbors is difficult to understand the language - but it is one of the three languages along the Russian and English, young Tsarnaev claim is fluent in his VKontakte page.
It is how to become part of Russia?
Caucasus region was conquered Tsarist Russian Army spent three decades of guerrilla fighters to overcome the resistance. Russian general Mikhail Yermolov, who use scorched-earth tactics, hostage-taking, and deliberately bloody massacre of civilians, and finally won the long war, the nature of cruelty and perfidy, brilliantly captured Russian writer column husband Tolstoy in his last novel, El-Hadji Murat, crushed the Chechen rebels.
Chechnya every time Russia's grip weakened, especially in the chaos since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union at the outbreak of the uprising of 1941. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was angered Chechnya infidelity, in 1944, he ordered the entire Chechen nation - 50 million people - were deported to Central Asia during World War II. An estimated 150,000 Chechens died in the winter march.
Chechens were allowed to return home after Stalin's death, but they declare independence, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russian troops invaded in 1994, but quit after two years of failed futility of war, it is estimated that more than 80,000 civilian casualties.
However, Chechnya won its independence, failed to establish a viable state. Basayev and Khattab Jordan, born ahead of the pack, such as to embrace Islamic ideology and revolution for export to neighboring republics. Under the leadership of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, now again in the 1999 invasion.
How Chechnya and terrorism?
For leaders in Russia's second assault on the Chechen issue, most of the first wave of independence of the Republic, who had believed in secular nationalism, either killed or defected to Russia. Islamic militants seeking to establish a full-Caucasus "base" organization "caliphate," took over the movement and the Middle East Islamic terrorist networks, such as found tactical inspiration, as well as material support from. Islamist insurgency has spread to neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Led by Chechen terrorists have repeatedly attacked the Russian hinterland, especially large-scale hostage-taking in the center of Moscow theater in 2002 caused the death of 130 people and a terrible school siege in Beslan, North Ossetia, resulting in the death of 330 people, half of them Children. ? double suicide bombing terrorists "Black Widow" - Russian security forces killed rebel's wife - 40 people were killed, 2010 Moscow metro attacks and other suicide bomb attack killed 35 people were killed and more next year in Moscow airport Mojieduowo.
What the Chechen like today?
Kremlin declared victory in Chechnya in 2009, the army pulled out, and under the control of leaving the Republic of the pro-Moscow strongman Ramzan Kadyrov. According to Mr. Kadyrov, Chechnya has a stunning economic rebirth, mainly funded by Moscow subsidies.
Russian human rights monitors alleged laws of the Republic has become a black hole, round opponent of Kadyrov official death squads, the key reporters sometimes open the bullet-ridden dead on the roadside. Ignoring the Russian Constitution, critics say Kadyrov has also imposed Islamic law in the Republic, and to punish those that contradict.
However, Kadyrov can rightfully request - he often visiting celebrities - Chechnya is actually in the volatile North Caucasus region, these days most secure place.
Chechnya suspected of involvement in the bombings in Boston will affect US-Russian relations?
Since the start of the second Chechen war, Putin has been trying to convince the Russian war in Chechnya is a chapter of the global war against terrorism, and the United States should stop criticizing Russia's brutal repression there and teamed up with U.S. leaders in Moscow.
This argument has been awarded a movement in Washington, Moscow, to quell Chechen often terrible results make it difficult to see things the way Putin's little traction. Despite repeated rumors about Chechnya to participate in anti-American terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda and the Taliban, almost no conclusive evidence has turned up.
 



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