Below is an extract of an article published by the Kavkaz Center, a Chechen international Internet news agency founded in the city of Grozny which focus on the coverage of the events in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

 “Today it is the 15th anniversary of the day when our nation restored independent statehood of our country. It was an act of peace, whose legitimacy was provided by the Constitutions of the USSR, RSFSR (Russian Federative Republic) and Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, which were acting at that moment, as well as by the special laws and declarations of the Union's government. On that day we thought that the state sovereignty of Chechnya, which was declared, was completing the many centuries of our people's struggle for independence and was putting an end to the countless sacrifices that our nation had made in this fight. But turned out it was not so. It turned out that we still had to go through the main ordeals and main sacrifices.

After a series of failed negotiations, provocations, informational lies, all kinds of blockades and attempts to unleash a civil war, back in December of 1994 the Kremlin unleashed a full-scale war against the Chechen people. Being unable to use the force of arguments against the Chechen independence, the Kremlin decided to use the argument of force. […] Ever since then the war has been continuing for ten years already. It has brought unbelievable sufferings to our people. Hundreds of thousands of the Republic's peaceful civilians have died. Hundreds of thousands of our fellow countrymen have scattered all around the world. And the rest of the people faced their lot in the Death Camp, which the invaders turned the territories of Chechnya into.

 […]The time will come when instead of tears of our mothers and sisters, instead of the ruins of our cities and villages burned with the fire of inferno, we will see the smiles of happiness and the prospering country. The time will come because we have paid and we still keep paying the highest price for that future.”