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

To stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

The people have already determined Chechnya’s status at the referendum.

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

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

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

It is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations.

We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

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.

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

We need a strong police force – the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

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

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks.

We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.

We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.