Chechnya

The Chechen Republic (Chechen: ??????? ??????????/Noxçiyn Respublika, Russian: ????????? ??????????), informal Chechnya (Chechen: ????????/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: ?????), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. Bordering Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west, it is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District.

Further reading

• Paul J., Ph.D. Murphy. The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror. ISBN 1574888307
• Vyacheslav Mironov. Assault on Grozny Downtown. (First hand account of a Russian infantryman's experiences in Grozny)
• Matthew Evangelista, The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?. ISBN 0815724993.
• Olga Oliker, Russia's Chechen Wars 1994 - 2000: Lessons from Urban Combat. ISBN 0833029983. (A strategic and tactical analysis of the Chechen Wars.)
• Charlotta Gall & Thomas de Waal. Chechnya: A Small Victorious War. ISBN 0330350757
• Anatol Lieven. Chechnya : Tombstone of Russian Power ISBN 0300078811
• John B Dunlop. Russia Confronts Chechnya : Roots of a Separatist Conflict ISBN 0521636191
• Marie Benningsen Broxup. The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World. ISBN 1850650691
• Anna Politkovskaya. A Small Corner of Hell : Dispatches from Chechnya ISBN 0226674320
• Chris Bird. "To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus"
• Carlotta Gall, Thomas de Waal, Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus