Chechens

Chechens (; Chechen: нохчий, noxçiy, Old Chechen: нахчой, naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples originating in the North Caucasus region primarily in Eastern Europe, located between the Black and Caspian Seas. They refer to themselves as Nokhchiy (pronounced [no̞xtʃʼiː]; singular Nokhchi, Nakhchuo or Nakhtche). Chechen and Ingush peoples are collectively known as the Vainakh (which means our people in Chechen) since the 1930s and were known as Nakhchi prior. The majority of Chechens today live in the Chechen Republic, a subdivision of the Russian Federation. Chechens are predominantly …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 October 2022 English

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had …

eliminate ethnic groups like the Kalmyks, Karachai, Chechens, Ingush, and Crimean Tartars by deporting them


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 23 May 2022 English

Amongst the most famous tsars and commissars, several—Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584), Peter the Great (1672–1725), Catherine the Great (1729–1796) and Stalin, the Man of Steel (1879–1953)—dominate the landscape. [...] We …

means: (1) brutally oppress smaller nations (e.g., Chechens, Tatars); (2) trun- cate other states (e.g., Georgia


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2022 English

Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth, …

nomads of various nationalities, ethnic Germans, Chechens, Orthodox priests, former members of the socialist- in their entirety, population groups such as Chechens or Crimean Tatars did not enjoy the luxury of


Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto · 24 August 2021 English

In the context of OONI Probe measurements, we consider a vantage point to be a unique network and country pair, such as the vantage point of “Vodafone in Italy.” iv …

Russia’s shrinking civic space has resulted in Chechens.262 Sean Howell, the co-founder of a rise in pro-democracy


Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto · 24 August 2021 English

In the context of OONI Probe measurements, we consider a vantage point to be a unique network and country pair, such as the vantage point of “Vodafone in Italy.” iv …

Russia’s shrinking civic space has resulted in Chechens.262 Sean Howell, the co-founder of a rise in pro-democracy


RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 19 December 2019 English

In support of Canada’s leading role in the advancement of refugee issues and the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), and informed by its feminist approach to foreign …

Gender relations in a refugee camp: A case of Chechens seeking asylum in the Czech Republic. Journal


RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 19 December 2019 English

In support of Canada’s leading role in the advancement of refugee issues and the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), and informed by its feminist approach to foreign …

Gender relations in a refugee camp: A case of Chechens seeking asylum in the Czech Republic. Journal


desLibris · 19 December 2019 English

At the same time, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report (TRC) of 2015 reiterates how the histories of colonialism are still persistent and need to be addressed in …

Gender relations in a refugee camp: A case of Chechens seeking asylum in the Czech Republic. Journal


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 October 2019 English

When it comes to the history of race, it is not obvious where Russia fits in. Some have made the case that race has had little effect on how people …

groups during the 1930s and 1940s – Cossacks, Chechens, Koreans,and others – constituted a “racial politics


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 March 2018 English

The book explores resettlement policies conducted by Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the South Caucasus in 1817-1953. The author investigates the state-managed population transfers concerning Germans, Russians, Armenians …

Germans, Russians (sectarians, Cossacks), Georgians, Chechens, etc. In the South Caucasus, however, the subjects century and Stal- in’s deportations in the Caucasus (Chechens, Meskhetian Turks), the issue of the resettlement Chechnya and the terrorist attacks committed by Chechens in Russia and the United States shifted the perception appropriately (for example, “Azerbaijanis” or “Chechens”). When it is not possible (here historians deal River. Numerous so- called mountain peoples – Chechens, Ingush, Lezgins, Abkhazians, and Ossetians –


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