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The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (/ ɪ tʃ ˈ k ɛr i ə / itch-KERR-ee-ə; Chechen: Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, romanized: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; Russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия, romanized: Chechenskaya Respublika Ichkeriya; abbreviated as "CHRI" or "CRI"), known simply as Ichkeria, and ...
The latter proclaimed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which declared independence, while the former sided with Russia. Following the First Chechen War of 1994–1996 with Russia, Chechnya gained de facto independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, although de jure it remained a part of Russia.
Passed. 18 October 2022. Status: Unknown. The resolution on recognition of the state sovereignty of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was a bill proposed by Oleksiy Honcharenko and Musa Mahomedov [1] in which the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, would have voted on the recognition of Chechnya 's independence, in response to Russia's ...
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A lack of archaeological data makes it difficult to be specific about the early history of the ethnic groups that occupy Chechnya. Caucasian speakers have inhabited the northeastern Caucasus since about 6000 B.C.E., according to both archaeological and linguistic evidence. The Nakh clans, the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush, lived in the mount...
Government system
On March 23, 2003, a new Chechen constitution, that was passed in a referendum, granted the Chechen Republic a significant degree of autonomy, but still tied it firmly to the Russian Federation and Moscow's rule as a secular, autonomous republic. According to that constitution, the president, who heads executive power, is elected by direct vote to a term of four years and can serve two terms in succession. The bicameral legislature comprises the Council of the Republic, consisting of 21 deput...
Former separatist elected president
The former separatist religious leader (mufti) Akhmad Kadyrov was elected president with 83 percent of the vote in an unmonitored election on October 5, 2003. Incidents of ballot stuffing and voter intimidation by Russian soldiers and the exclusion of separatist parties from the polls were subsequently reported by the OSCE monitors. After Kadyrov's assassination in 2004, Sergey Abramov was appointed to the position of acting prime minister. However, since 2005 Ramzan Kadyrov (son of Akhmad Ka...
Separatist government
There is a separatist Ichkeria government recognized only by Georgia, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The president was Aslan Maskhadov, the Foreign Minister was Ilyas Akhmadov, who was the spokesman for Maskhadov. Aslan Maskhadov had been elected in an internationally monitored election in 1997 for four years, prolonged one additional year in 2001. Maskhadov was unable to participate in the 2003 presidential election, since separatist parties were banned, and he faced accusations...
Traditionally, Chechens were sheep farmers, with men living a seminomadic life accompanying the herds through mountain pastures. Grain agriculture was the mainstay in the lowlands. High mountain villages traded livestock and eggs for grain in lowland bazaars. Theft of horsesand other robbery provided extra cash. Maize has been the staple grain sinc...
Population
The population of Chechnya was 1,268,989, according to the 2010 Russian Census. The birth rate was 25.41 per 1000 in 2004. Chechnya has one of the youngest populations in the generally aging Russian Federation, and in the early 1990s, it was among the few regions experiencing natural population growth.
Ethnicity
There are nearly 60 distinct ethnic groups living in the Caucasus region, and 50 languages. The 2002 Russian Census showed Chechens at 1,031,647 make up 93.5 percent of the republic's population. Other groups include Russians (40,645, or 3.7 percent), Kumyks (8883, or 0.8 percent), Ingush (2,914 or 0.3 percent), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5 percent of the total population. However, since 2008, some observers believe that all ethnic Russians have left Chechny...
Religion
Before the adoption of Islam, Chechens partook in numerous rituals, many of them pertaining to farming. These included rain rites, a celebration that occurred on the first day of plowing, as well as the Day of the Thunderer Sela, and the Day of the Goddess Tusholi. The country converted to the Sunni Muslim religion between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries under the Ottoman Empire. Each clan is led by a spiritual mystic. Some adhere to a Sufi mystic branch of Sunni Islam called Murid...
A Chechen village
Single-storey houses with a flat roof, constructed with rock, wood, clay, and straw, are the most common type of buildings in mountainous Chechnya. Several buildings - the living quarters, a tower, and the outhouses - made up a family holding. Villages were well protected, close to pastures, water, and arable land. They look like haphazard agglomerations of buildings, lacking straight streets, and were built without plans, on the bank of a river or along a road. A mountain village had 20 to 2...
Music
The pondur is the oldest Chechen musical instrument, comprising of three strings and a wooden casing. Being similar to the Russian balalaika, the difference lies in the casing: the pondur is rather long, is made of one solid block of wood and has a soft, rustling voice. The reed-pipe is played on a summer solstice marking the day of Pkh'armat, a legendary figure who brought fire to the Chechens via burning embers on a reed stalk, which was said to have burnt small holes in the reed, thus form...
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The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria ( / ɪtʃˈkɛriə /; Chechen: Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, romanized: Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; Russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия; shortened to " ChRI " or " CRI ") was a country that declared independence from Russia and controlled most of the former Checheno ...
Jul 18, 2022 · Pitted against superior numbers, ordnance and airpower, Chechnya fought a bloody two-year guerrilla war and emerged as the autonomous Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. From then on, autonomy was its to lose. THe CHechen Situation.
Jul 18, 2006 · A former Soviet air force officer, he was named president of the nascent group in 1991, and officially declared the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria independent from Russia.
