[
US
/ˈtʃɛtʃniə/
]
NOUN
- an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic
How To Use Chechnya In A Sentence
- These tenacious guerrillas come from Chechnya, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and they use classical guerrilla hit-and-run tactics.
- No intelligent, nice young man in Chechnya would marry a nonvirgin girl," says Yusupova. Women of Al Qaeda
- Similarly, Chechnya's population grew apace after the arrival of corn from the New World.
- And on the Human Rights front, from Chechnya up, there is no positive notes to be found in Russia which has definitely retrograded on that matter since the Yeltsine years. 07/30/2006 - 08/06/2006
- Something which has started in Chechnya during the first war was already pointing in the direction of fanatic fundamentalist, global Islamist resistance.
- Since the beginning of the year Moscow has officially granted Chechnya $ 65m, a third of the sum initially planned.
- The Travel Channel will debut a new travel series about the world's hot spots, traveling to such dangerous locales as Afghanistan and Chechnya.
- Chechnya had started out in 1990 quite similar to other Muslim regions such as Tatarstan or Kabardino-Balkaria. The Return
- The Chechnyan had panicked when I told him he was going to call The lifter, cancel the job and meet him here to pay the remainder of his fee. Edge
- The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history.
