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Originally Posted by BourbonMan
Muslim??? Did I miss something? Seriously, did I? From what I have heard and seen, they were RUSSIAN.
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Where’s Chechnya? What’s a Chechen?
Chechnya is in the North Caucasus and is a province (“republic”) of Russia with a population of about 1.3 million people. Its primary inhabitants are Chechens,
a predominantly Muslim population with their own language. Chechnya was the site of two brutal wars in the 1990s, the first of which established de facto Chechen independence from Russia and the second of which essentially crushed it. The conclusion of the second Chechen war was followed by a prolonged insurgency that saw a nationalistic battle take on increasingly Islamist overtones. As a result of the conflict, many Chechens were displaced and now live in nearby regions.