Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya
- Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya
Also called the
Noxçiyn Respublika, the Chechen Republic of
Ichkeriya was a secessionist republic established by
Jokhar Dudayev on 1 November 1991. The only country to recognize Chechnya’s independence as Ichkeriya was
Georgia, under the leadership of Zviad Gamsakhurdia. After several years of Ichkeriya’s de facto independence,
Boris Yeltsin ordered federal troops into the region, initiating the first
Chechen War, effectively bringing the region back under Russian control. Ichkeriya is an old place name from the Turkic Kumyk language meaning “that place over there,” and was adopted by Dudayev for its romantic connotations from Russian
literature and its ease of pronunciation in foreign languages. The
Chechen government in exile continues to use the appellation.
Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation.
Robert A. Saunders and Vlad Strukov.
2010.
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