Tjetjenien blev i det 19. århundrede erobret af det russiske zardømme, befolkningen blev under Stalin midlertidigt deporteret, og senest er der under Jeltsin og Putin blevet myrdet og bombet.
. Chechnya was conquered by Imperial Russia in the 19th century, its people were intermittently deported by Stalin, and, more recently, under Yeltsin and Putin, they have been bombed and murdered.