Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.