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The Chechen Republic (IPA: /ˈʧɛʧɨn rɪˈpʌblɨk/; Russian: Чече́нская Респу́блика, Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (/ˈʧɛʧniːə/; Russian: Чечня́; Chechen: Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), sometimes referre to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District. It borders Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west.

Trivia about chechnya

  • Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, "who slew the Russian swine", opens in this present-day Russian republic
  • In December 1994 Russia sent troops into this breakaway republic to quell an independence movement
  • In April of 1996, Russian rockets killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, this breakaway republic's leader
  • In December 1994 Russia sent 40,000 troops into this breakaway republic
  • Grozny is the capital city of this region that has waged a struggle for independence since the mid-1990s
  • On Sept. 1, 2004 terrorists from this breakaway republic took more than a thousand hostages at a school in Beslan
  • After arranging a truce with this republic, Aleksandr Lebed was fired by Boris Yeltsin as security chief
  • 1994:Yeltsin orders Russian troops into this rebellious republic
  • Da! As separatists fighting a rebel war in this Russian region, we've often fought in its capital, Grozny
  • This Muslim republic where much fighting has taken place contains Russia's southernmost point
  • In 1994 Boris Yeltsin had his Russian forces invade this breakaway republic
  • Murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya's book "A Small Corner of Hell" is about Russia's war in this region

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