I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'
In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
My dream is that all Chechen women should wear headscarves.
There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
A woman is a housewife.
If people in Russia do not take the path of traditional, pure Sufi Islam, Russia will lose out. All the other denominations, like Wahhabism, are new inventions for our country - we have never had it, and we will never accept it.
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.
America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.
I love my mother, my wife, my sisters very much. I honour and respect them. Women are the keepers of the family.
Akhmad is strength!
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.
Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.
The Almighty is the judge.
I say that a university is a house of knowledge, not for showing off Dolce & Gabbana bags. Students should go to university in uniform.
I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.
I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.
You cannot deny the fact that, in the United States, there are some really great guys with rich experience in overt and covert special operations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
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.
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
To die in battle would be my greatest joy.
It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people's eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.
He's my idol. Putin is a beauty.
Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.
I don't want to pose either with Obama or with Merkel.
I was always with the people.
In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
Mohamed Salah is the best footballer in the world and an overall perfect person.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
Once there was a need for people like me to fight, to put things in order. Now we have order and prosperity.
We have a strong government and are a nuclear state. Even if our government was completely destroyed, our nuclear missiles would be automatically deployed.
We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even cruel struggle.
I am a son of the Chechen people. I am no different from anyone else.
Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.
Family honour is the most important thing.
America is carrying out policies against Russia and its leadership. They know I'm among those ready to give my life for Russia and that I have a good army capable of attacking and defending. We'll see who comes out on top.
I was born and raised in war.
The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.
We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.
To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.
We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.
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.
If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden.
Russia gave us the mission to destroy terrorism and extinguish it in the North Caucasus, and results have already been achieved.
I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.
Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
Personality cults are an insult to Islam.
Paradise lies at the feet of the mother. So how can a Chechen, a Muslim, violate the rights of women?
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
If we are Russian citizens, treat us as Russian citizens. We want equality and justice.
As long as Putin backs me up, I can do everything - Allahu akbar!
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
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