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Originally Posted by Aryol
aktarian, Chechnya and these countries you sited to have nothing the same.
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Nothing except breaking away from a country which doesn't recognise that move (OK, Kosovo and Chechnya are predominatly muslim but I guess that's not what you are asking for)
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Originally Posted by Aryol
The power in Chechnya in 90s was captured by a set (less than 10.000 iirc, i.e. less than 1% of all population of Chechnya) of armed rebels, and they didn't ask peaceful people, how they want to live, independently, or as a part of Russia.
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Except that he won a referendum about his position after advocating independance.
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Originally Posted by Aryol
Then Russian forces overthrow rebels, they held a referendum, where overwhelming majority of Chechens said that they want to live as a part of Russia.
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They did no such thing. Russian invaded, got roughly handled, left, then came back and incorporated Chechnya back into Russia.