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Uzun Hacı Saltinski was born in 1848 in the village of Salti, in the Gunib region of Dagestan, into an Avar family. Raised within the Nakshibendi order, Uzun Hacı received his education for eleven years under Sheikh Abdurrahman Hacı el Suguri, one of the principal ideologues of the Dagestan uprising of 1877. From his youth onward, he was repeatedly arrested and exiled due to his actions against the Russian Tsarist regime. Nearly fifteen years of his life were spent in Siberia and prisons. During

Chechen Wars are a series of armed conflicts that took place in two main phases between 1994–1996 and 1999–2009 between the Russian Federation and Chechens seeking independence from Russia. These wars emerged within the context of Chechnya’s demand for independence from Russia and Russia’s efforts to preserve its political, military and economic integrity. These conflicts, also known as the First and Second Chechen Wars, hold significance through their military, ethnic, religious, geopolitical a