To Balalaika: Your reprinting of the article by FT on the "refusal of Russia to bow out gracefully " was appreciated. This is a well written piece w...

To understand that economics is the bottom line in all these wars is essential. Moslems and Christians and Jews and Hindus and everybody else can get ...

Igor may be a bigot, but he does understand that economics is the bottom line in all these wars. Moslems and Christians and Jews and Hindus and every...

1000 A.D. OR EARLIER: Ancestors of the Chechens appear in their present homeland in the Northern Caucasus mountains from destinations unknown. Li...

1560: Under Czar Ivan the Terrible, Russia begins a sporadic, three-century campaign to subjugate the Chechens and other tribesmen living on the north...

Drake: The source of this information is the BBC News: But really, let us not get hung up on specific facts. The real underlying cause of the war ...

A little history on Chechnen Republic: In March 1992, a constitution was adopted, defining the Chechen Republic as an independent, secular state gove...

It is very discouraging to see that when someone takes an interest in the problems of a distant land and wants to learn and possibly help, he is attac...

to Igor: Russia "owns" Chechnya? What constitutes ownership? People who live on the land and work the land and take care of it, and protect it from...

Please inform an ignorant American about the situation in Chechnya. My initial reaction is that the Russians are attempting to retake a lost colony. ...