Definitions for "Chechnya"
an oil rich Muslim state, part of the Russian republic until 1991, when it declared independence and set off a civil war.
Chechnya is the region of land located in the lower portion of Russia near Georgia and
an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic