Sentence examples for Chechen from inspiring English sources

"I knew Zaur as a genuine Russian patriot," the Chechen leader wrote on his Instagram page on Sunday evening, confirming that Dadayev had served in one of his battalions.

Whoever grasps the poisoned chalice of Chechen power will need the support of Mr Kadyrov and his militia, as well as that of the Kremlin.

A toast-master versified in both Georgian and Chechen.

(Mohamad Ajub, 22, a farmer from Ghazni province) "My house was confiscated by a Chechen jihadi after the advance of the Islamic State through Riqa".

In Russia itself, I'm more likely to be considered a Chechen terrorist or a Hasidic Jew (both comments made by my grandmothers, concerned I might be beaten up or arrested).

Delimkhanov was wanted in connection with the murder of the Chechen commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai.

That killing has reportedly sparked a power struggle between the FSB and the security forces of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, one of whose men is accused of the shooting.

Zaur Dadayev, a Chechen, was one of five men to appear in a Moscow courtroom on Sunday, all from Russia's north Caucasus region.

Extraordinary footage filmed late last year shows Ramzan Kadyrov addressing a stadium in Grozny filled with thousands of armed Chechen police and special forces members dressed in camouflage standing to attention around the stadium.

Russian news agencies said a 30-year-old man who was a suspect in the Nemtsov murder had blown himself up with a grenade when police tried to detain him in Grozny, the Chechen capital – an event liable to raise suspicions.

(This is on top of several thousand Chechen fighters under Chechnya's president Ramzan Kadyrov, who swear personal loyalty to Mr Putin).