Talk:Chechnya

January 2024

@Mellk Regarding Akhmad Kadyrov, his description as "former Mufti" is factually correct and provides additional context about his background and influence in Chechnya. Taken directly from his page: "Akhmad-Khadzhi Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was a Russian politician and revolutionary who served as Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s". Secondly, there is a lack of concrete evidence proving Kadyrov's participation in armed conflict to classify him definitively as a rebel.

The term "restored" implies a continuity of Russian control over Chechnya following the USSR's dissolution. Therefore, using "restored" inaccurately suggests a return to a previous state of Russian control which it did not have post USSR, ignoring the de-facto independence Chechnya exercised in those years. A term like "achieved" or "established" would more accurately reflect the reality that Russian control was an establishment of authority rather than a reinstatement of an uninterrupted status quo. Ola Tønningsberg (talk) 14:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Saying "former rebel" is much more clearer that he switched sides. In regards to the term "restored", Chechnya declared independence in late 1991. It was part of the Russian SFSR. See for example: "Though the Republic split from the Chechno-Ingush ASSR and declared its independence from Russia in 1991, it was not until 1994 that the central government attempted to re-establish federal control over the region."[1] Mellk (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

In that case writing "former Ichkerian mufti" is appropriate to indicate he switched sides. Ola Tønningsberg (talk) 02:16, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Are Chechens pontics or GREEKS or Romans?

answear me please are Chechens GREEKS or pontics GREEKS or Turkish people?? 2A02:85F:F863:A7FE:9404:254C:60F:BD8 (talk) 19:08, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

No Leofisha (talk) 21:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Change Infobox

Is there an way i can change the infobox? the infobox "settlement" lacks of interesting datas and i think infobox "political division" or "dependency" would be better as there are informations addable that the current one lacks. Leofisha (talk) 09:51, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Add info to government section of the infobox

I think we should change "Parliament of the Chechen Republic" to "Parliament of the Chechen Republic under an authoritarian dictatorship", or even "under a totalitarian dictatorship", as that what it is pretty much is!

I thought I would put it here for consideration by you, so I don't waste my time making an edit that could be reverted Sickminecraft45 (talk) 10:23, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for investing the effort of contributing your opinion. Now the only thing you need to provide is a published, reliable, secondary source that can be cited to validate your opinion, and we can get the ball rolling. Nom de vileplume (talk) 01:15, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/12/15/chechnyas-instability-implications-for-russia-and-the-eu/

https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021%20Chechnya%20Issue%20Update.pdf

Are these good enough to label it as an Authoritarian Regime? Sickminecraft45 (talk) 08:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I think that you should add it to the Politics section, something along the lines of "Kadyrov's government has been described as an authoritarian or totalitarian."

These sources (the US government agency and a Polish think-tank) are not ideal, you'd want to use scholarly source. However I don't think anyone seriously doubts that Kadyrov's government is authoritarian. Alaexis_¿question? 07:05, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

I am not sure why we are even using Template:Infobox settlement and not Template:Infobox Russian federal subject. IIRC there was an account that changed the infoboxes on the pages about the republics a couple years ago, but this was never reverted. Mellk (talk) 09:55, 29 June 2025 (UTC)