More like Hawaii that was taken in a bloody exterminating war against Muslim tribes (the Circassians), full of the worst Muslim fanatics on earth (the expat Chechens have a reputation in Afghanistan Pakistan and Syria). Chechnya is no vacation spot. It was an extremely unwilling part of the Russian empire since the days Tolstoy Pushkin and Lermontov wrote about it.
No more unwilling than Sitting Bull
So you have any problems with any other nations colonialism or just Russia’s? What country you from?