Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has called on the federal government to develop a set of measures to encourage ethnic Russians to return to the Chechen republic. Speaking at a government session on Thursday, Alkhanov recalled that 300,000 Russian-speaking people and some 300,000 Chechens have left the republic since 1991, when Dzhokhar Dudayev came to power in Chechnya. As a result, Chechnya has turned into a mono-ethnic region in the North Caucasus, he said. \"It is necessary to think how to return people there - not only Chechens but also Russians, because otherwise we will face the same events in the next 5 to 7 years,\" Alkhanov said. (Interfax)