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| | Chechnya War, History - Johnson's Russia List 12-12-02 |
 | | When a thief is caught, he is taken to the temple of that village, where the Kadi and the tribal elders punish the guilty by relieving him of his own possessions and holdings, and then they exile him from the tribe forever. |
 | | But to the extent that domestic kidnappings are despised and rare among them, these same acts, when turned against their non-ally neighbors and Russian borderlands, are considered an honor." ["Rossiia i kavkaz: skvoz' dva stoletiia" [SPB: Zvezda, 2001): 9-10]. |
 | | And in 1859, after the famous Chechen imami Shamil was captured, the Caucasus was subdued and included in the Russian empire. |
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