Word: chechen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin's second term 10 months away, the Family is beset by fear of humiliation, if not prosecution. ("The Ceausescu scenario," a Kremlin staff member calls it, recalling the collapse of Romania's dictatorship in 1989.) Ironically, the gravest threat may be neither Luzhkov nor the Chechen rebels but a corps of Swiss prosecutors that has been probing allegations of financial malfeasance in the Kremlin, centering on lucrative contracts awarded a Swiss construction firm. Yeltsin is eager to ensure that whoever takes over the Kremlin next year won't be coming after him or his family. And while Putin...
...halting Russia?s economic dissolution. Suddenly he?s got a war to win, and it?s a war that Stepashin has lost before. In Dagestani, a provivce that borders on Chechnya in Russia?s mountainous (and mostly Muslim) north Caucasus region, a rebel force is trying to join its Chechen neighbors in achieving a de facto independence from Russia and becoming part of Chechnya. Russian forces have begun attacking the rebels ? pooh-poohed by the official Russain news outlet as "bandits" -- with artillery and missile strikes. And Sergei Stepashin is in Dagestan, trying to get it right this time...
...Stepashin, after flying to the Dagestani capital Makhachkala under Yeltsin's orders and meeting with local officials, had very little to say on strategic matters. But he?d better have the military behind him now. The fighting, which intensified early Saturday when the militants (who may in fact be Chechens) crossed into Dagestan and began taking up positions around local villages, is the worst in the region since the Chechen war, which almost got Yeltsin impeached by the Duma last spring. But Stepashin?s main qualification for the Prime Minister?s job was his ability to protect his boss...
...security, while a second assassination plot was to have been attempted during Clinton's canceled Pakistan visit. If the reports are true, Washington would do well to beef up security for next week's Moscow trip -- after all, Bin Laden is also alleged to have trained a number of Chechen terrorists...
Across the courtyard, astonished neighbors began appearing on their balconies. One of them, an expatriate Chechen, started hurling insults at the fire fighters for disturbing his sleep and fell silent only when a panicky police marksman brought him down with a misplaced warning shot. Later that evening the Chechen delegation walked out of the Russia-Chechnya peace conference in protest, an event the Tsibliyevs might have seen on the news had their television survived the deluge in their living room. But none of this mattered to Larissa Tsibliyev. As she slipped into unconsciousness, she was content simply to note that...