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More pragmatically, a continuing military debacle in the northern Caucasus might not only push the core area of Russia back into a police state but also trigger additional declarations of independence throughout the ethnically and culturally varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
...determined enemy is the most harrowing task in all warfare. And even after the Russian flag finally waved over a pile of smoking rubble, the killing might not stop. A Russian army of occupation would be subject to hit-and-run raids by Chechen guerrillas holed up in the Caucasus Mountains south of the city, as czarist armies were held off for no less than 47 years in the mid-19th century...
...usual Moscow rumor mill but from the country's desperate need for explanations. Worried Russians are struggling to understand why there is such an obvious, crashing contrast between what Yeltsin says about the nasty little war in Chechnya and what everyone knows is really happening in the secessionist North Caucasus republic...
...machine gun, chasing the reporters into their parked cars and away from the scene. First, though, the journalists heard the views of Victor, a Russian major who declined to give his full name: "This whole thing is stupid, useless and futile. I grew up here in the North Caucasus. I know these people. Once challenged, they'll fight to the last...
WARS: Rebellion in the Caucasus...