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The website Chechnya Free lists the nine Chechen tukkhums, which are formations consisting of taips/teips. Malkhiy is said to be one of these tukkhums:  

“All Chechen clans- taips - made part of bigger social-economic and military-political formations known as tukkhums. There were nine such formations: Akkkhiy, Malkhiy, Nokhchmakhkkhoi, Tyerloi, Chyantiy, Chyebarloi, Sharoi, Shuotoi and Ershtoi. Taken together, they embraced all the Chechens and, a long time ago, the gyalgyai, i.e. Ingushis. But the Ingushis split away to form an ethnic community of their own. […]  

The clan formation of Malkhiy brought together Byastiy, Byenastkhoi, Italchkhoi, Kamalkhoi, Kkhoratkhoi, Kyagankhoi, Meshoy, Sakankhoi, Teratkhoi, Chyarkhoi, Erkhoi and Yamloi. They bordered on Ingushetia, in the southwestern part of Chechnya.” (Chechnya Free, no date)

On the Chechen website Amina.com the following information can be found:

“In the mid-19th century, 75% of Chechen teypes (clans) were united in 9 military-economic unions, tukkhums: A'kkhiy, Malkhiy, Nokhchmakhkoy, Terloy, Chianti, Chebarloy, Sharoy, Shuotoy, and Ershtkhoy. Every tukkhum occupied a definite territory, teypes (clans) of every tukkhum spoke the same dialect. […]

The Malkhiy tukkhum united the teypes (clans) Bia'stiy, Bienastkhoy, Italchkhoy, Kamalkhoy, Kkhoratkhoy, Kiegankhoy, Meshiy, Sakankhoy, Teratkhoy, Chiarkhoy, Erkhoy and Yamkhoy, that occupied the South-West of Chechnya, bordering on Ingushetia and on Georgia. […]

Members of these five tukkhums have been settled in the big villages of the piedmont and of the plain, mixed with other Chechen and Russians. The Malkhiy tukkhum, that also occupied the high mountain, was transfered to the plain too. The result of this is that the only Nokhmatchkhkoy, that occupied the mountainous region Ichkeria preserved its historic lands, situated around the Shamil's Imamate's capital Vedeno.” (Amina.com, no date)

This information may be corroborated with information on the website Kultura Regionov Rossii, according to which nine tukkhums emerged in Chechnya in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, one of which was Mialkhy: 

[Russisches Zitat entfernt] (Kultura Regionov Rossii, no date) 

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to ACCORD within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please read in full all documents referred to.