The Chechen diaspora () is a term used to collectively describe the communities of Chechen people who live outside of

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; this includes Chechens who live in other parts of Russia. There are also significant Chechen populations in other

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(especially in

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and

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

). Outside Russia, Chechens are mainly descendants of people who had to leave Chechnya during the 19th century Caucasian War (which led to the

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of Chechnya by the

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) and the 1944 Stalinist deportation to the Soviet Central Asia in the case of Kazakhstan. More recently, tens of thousands of Chechen refugees settled in the European Union and elsewhere as the result of the First and Second Chechen Wars, especially in the wave of emigration to the

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after 2002.Chechnya's Exodus to Europe, ''North Caucasus Weekly'' Volume: 9 Issue: 3, The Jamestown Foundation, January 24, 2008

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