Chechen

How To Use Chechen In A Sentence

• Chechen rebels have branded him a traitor. Times, Sunday Times
• Chechen tribesmen figure prominently in the works of some major Russian 19th century writers.
• To recognize this political fact and state it bluntly in no way minimizes the criminal repression carried out by the ruling elite in Russia against the Chechen people.
• Besides an embittered intelligentsia, anti-Chechen barriers in higher education and industry, along with the high birth rate, generated a large “subproletariat” of underemployed, rural young men, dependent on migratory work. The Return
• Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action. The Return
• “Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror. The Return
• During the first and second wars, Chechen rebels sought to acquire radioactive and biological materials, plotted to hijack a nuclear submarine and cased military nuclear installations.
• The Russians now appear ready to capture more territory from the Chechens.
• We race through Urus-Martan, a large central Chechen settlement, and rocky country lanes.
• Finally, at the end of the 1970s, Chechens were allowed to return to their motherland.