Ukraine’s radical nationalist organization, UNA-UNSO, will propose creating a Ukraine-Chechnya friendship society to foster links with the rebellious republic, leader of the UNA-UNSO and Verkhovna Rada deputy Andry Shkil announced. "Chechnya will soon become an independent state, and Ukraine must develop cooperation with it," he said. He said that the society’s main objective is to strengthen friendship between the Ukrainian and Chechen peoples. UNA-UNSO has also began work on setting up a Ukrainian-Chechen information center. The center will include a Ukrainian version of the kavkaz.org website, Shkil reiterated. Another Ukrainian site will host positive information on Chechnya. "The war in Chechnya is receiving too much ink. We are out to show the positives," he stressed.
hmm most of it is radical aspirations to guide attention to themselves. If you read history about cossacks you will notice this sort of thing going in a cycle and tendencies that repeat themselves. Ergo cossacks on the eastern side were much less hostile to russia and toward the later years stoped looking at it as an enemy and an ideological schism split ukraine along the dniepr.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, visiting Germany, has agreed on the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union in settling the Chechen conflict. After talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the city of Hamburg, Putin said Moscow had carefully analyzed Germany’s proposals on its participation in settling the conflict. “We accept these proposals,” he said. - Russia Journal