[Cronos]

I dunno, Chechnya was invaded by the Russian Empire. Perhaps if they got out of there earlier the slamic dimension may not have entered in. Right now, the Russians are foreigners rulign over Chechnya. This isn't any different from the Russians ruling over the Baltic states. The Chechens aren't Russian.

[RussianConservative]

Do you know why Russian annex Chechnya and then to Khiva? Because since 1700s Chechyns slave raid russian colonists to far north, all land north of Tarek (still now Chechnya, thanks to STalin redraw of map for allied Chechins who help him destroy Tarek Cossaks) and for thousand years slave raid to Georgia, Ossessia, Abhazia (all Orthodox land) and sell to Khiva....till 1830's Russia do punitive counter raid to punish...by 1820s decision made, enough is enough...only by annex, burning of forests, building forts and road will issue solve...and did...but then Khiva hire Azerbajanies and Turks and start all over again.

[david_the_positive]

I dunno, Chechnya was invaded by the Russian Empire. Perhaps if they got out of there earlier the slamic dimension may not have entered in. Right now, the Russians are foreigners rulign over Chechnya. This isn't any different from the Russians ruling over the Baltic states. The Chechens aren't Russian.

Dear Chronos.

i try to observe rather than raspond, but your chechen story seems to echo so many bad memories that i want to stop on it for a minute.

Do you know the saying: "if you goto a zoo and see a cage labeled tiger and you see an elephant in it - do not believe your eyes"

In Chechnya many people lived through a war, and got to test the idea that a "chechen government" is better than "russian occupation".

Our media, in my opinion went to Chechnya with a preconceived story, as opposed to a see and tell approach.

There was a Russian Duma study that said that in Grozny rallies, where supporters dropped notes into a basket were later called nationwide elections.
Is this true?
Gosduma, a mouthpiece like US congress, said it was. If reporters were in Chechnya to do more than put a Grozny postal stamp on their london/ny/moscow story perhaps they would of checked it and reported to us whether its true or not.

If you believe the reporters covering chechnyan story you may of missed that chechen forces were fighting on both sides of the conflict. Let alone that there was a civil war before Russian soldiers went in Christmas Day 1994.

Chechen militants were mutilating Russian prisoners of war, of which there is video and photo proof. Did it get any coverage? What about the stories of "Russian ethnic cleansing." The latter stories went to press without any sort of checks apparently, as those that were checked were found to be hoaxes or too ambiguous to tell.

I encourage you to refer me to a well documented story of russian cleansing.