On the Ukrainian-language Apple Maps, the Chechen Republic is designated as “Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya”, the RBC correspondent was convinced.
If you use Apple maps in Russian, then this Russian region is designated as Chechnya, however, if you translate the phone into Ukrainian, the application will show “Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya”.
The unified federal list of organizations recognized as terrorist in accordance with Russian law includes the “Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan.”
RBC sent a request to Apple.
The unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria appeared in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR on part of the territory of the former Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in violation of Russian law. In March 1992, the Chechen Republic adopted the constitution of an independent state, but was not recognized by any of the UN member states.
In December 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree restoring constitutional order in Chechnya, and on December 11, Russian troops entered the republic.
In May 1997, Yeltsin and the head of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, signed an agreement on peace and principles of relations between the two sides, proclaiming a renunciation of violence and an intention to build relations in accordance with international law. De facto, this meant the recognition of the independence of Ichkeria.
However, two years later, after the militants attacked Dagestan, the second Chechen war began, as a result of which the republic ceased to exist in 2000.
In 2003, a new Constitution of Chechnya was adopted, which stipulates that the republic is a subject of Russia. In the same year, Akhmat Kadyrov (the father of the current head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov) was elected head of Chechnya.
