The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

What you mean to me is something out of the ordinary, cause even a whole of a dictionary won't be able to describe it!

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?