Editing Chechnya (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Мечеть "Сердце Чечни".jpg|thumb|Grozny in 2013, with the "Heart of Chechnya" Mosque on the right]]
During the [[First Chechen War]], the Chechen economy fell apart.<ref name="Russell 2007 163–168">{{Cite journal|last=Russell|first=John|date=2007|editor-last=Gammer|editor-first=Moshe|editor2-last=Lokshina|editor2-first=Tanya|editor3-last=Thomas|editor3-first=Ray|editor4-last=Mayer|editor4-first=Mary|editor5-last=Dunlop|editor5-first=John B.|title=Chechnya: Russia's 'War on Terror' or 'War of Terror'?|jstor=20451332|journal=Europe-Asia Studies|volume=59|issue=1|pages=163–168|doi=10.1080/09668130601072761|s2cid=153481090}}</ref> In 1994, the separatists planned to introduce a new currency, but the change did not occur due to the re-taking of Chechnya by Russian troops in the [[Second Chechen War]].<ref name="Russell 2007 163–168"/>

The economic situation in Chechnya has improved considerably since 2000. According to the ''New York Times'', major efforts to rebuild Grozny have been made, and improvements in the political situation have led some officials to consider setting up a tourism industry, though there are claims that construction workers are being irregularly paid and that poor people have been displaced.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/world/europe/30grozny.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=Chechnya's Capital Rises From the Ashes, Atop Hidden Horrors |first=Andrew E. |last=Kramer |date=30 April 2008 |access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref>

Chechnya's unemployment was 67% in 2006 and fell to 21.5% in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://knoema.com/atlas/Russian-Federation/Chechnya-Republic-of/Unemployment-rate |title=Chechnya, Republic of Unemployment rate, 1990-2014 - knoema.com |access-date=11 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412062011/https://knoema.com/atlas/Russian-Federation/Chechnya-Republic-of/Unemployment-rate |archive-date=12 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Total revenue of the budget of Chechnya for 2017 was 59.2 billion rubles. Of these, 48.5 billion rubles were grants from the federal budget of the Russian Federation.

In late 1970s, Chechnya produced up to 20 million tons of oil annually, production declined sharply to approximately 3 million tons in the late 1980s, and to below 2 million tons before 1994, first (1994–1996) second Russian invasion of Chechnya (1999) inflicted material damage on the oil-sector infrastructure, oil production decreased to 750,000 tons in 2001 only to increase to 2 million tons in 2006, by 2012 production was 1 million tons.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Does Chechnya Stand To Lose Out From Russian-Azerbaijani Oil Agreement? |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-azerbaijan-oil-agreement-chechnya/25091138.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=30 August 2013 }}</ref>