After the sale his mother phoned to complain about Moscow's abuse of the Chechens.
"There is an open season on Chechens, they are hunting Chechens now, " he said.
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From the late 1930s through World War II, Stalin deported Chechens as traitors to Soviet power.
The biggest danger for Georgia is that Russian soldiers or aircraft will pursue Chechens into Georgia.
The Tsarnaev brothers are ethnic Chechens who had been living in America for about a decade.
"This is absolutely not characteristic of Chechens, " said Aslanbek Aslakhanov, a member of the Russian parliament.
Chechens have shot down several Russian helicopters ferrying supplies and reinforcements to mountain garrisons.
As for the Chechens, their misery and oppression seem set to continue, or perhaps even worsen.
For the Chechens, Mr Maskhadov has little clout outside his own group of fighters.
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Mr Maskhadov's people say that only a handful of Chechens, if any, are fighting in Afghanistan.
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Many Chechens are arrested and abused for no better reason than to extract a ransom.
Georgia is torn between upsetting its big northern neighbour and upsetting the formidable Chechens.
But no one is dismissing the Chechens' determination to complete what the Soviet engineers left undone.
Russia's failure to win over the Chechens in areas under Russian control is indeed glaring.
Chechens claim he was dismissed for having bungled an assassination attempt on their president.
And even under the noses of Russian minders, Chechens curse their occupiers to visiting foreign journalists.
Some top Chechens have been killed, including the commanding officer in Grozny, Aslanbek Ismailov.
It would give the Chechens a chance to regroup and harry the occupying soldiers.
The Chechens became famous for their warrior prowess, the Dagestanis for their Koranic learning.
That will not be easy: there are few plausible Chechens left to negotiate with.
The suspects are ethnic Chechens and their father's family was deported to Central Asia in the 1940s.
The overwhelming majority of Turks and Chechens are Muslims, and more than 20, 000 Chechens live in Turkey.
It is because the Chechens themselves received nothing from their self-appointed rulers apart from robbery and fraud.
After the communist revolution, the Chechens initially accepted Soviet rule but later staged a series of uprisings.
But Mr Shevardnadze has made a big effort to mend fences with the Chechens without upsetting Russia.
Either way, it leaves a question-mark over Mr Putin's future and offers little comfort to the wretched Chechens.
Libyans and other Arabs have been spotted, along with smaller numbers of British Muslims, Pakistanis and Chechens.
But it would not be the first time Chechens opposed to Moscow rule have carried out suicide attacks.
Undeterred, the Chechens are planning a pipeline along the same route, to export their oil independently of Russia.
It should not get another cent until it halts the shelling and opens serious talks with the Chechens.
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