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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings illuminated the way in the gathering darkness as our column of three armored personnel carriers rolled down the empty central boulevard of Grozny. Our mission: to break through to the Samara motorized rifle regiment pinned down in front of the presidential palace during the Russian assault on the Chechen capital. We never made it. The way ahead was blocked by the wreckage of gutted Russian tanks. An ambush? I closed my eyes as I had often done as a child at the dentist's office, hoping that if my time was up, death would come quickly. We managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: LESSONS NOT LEARNED | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...group of special forces from the kgb and the gru, the military intelligence service, assisted by several paratroop battalions, managed to take Kabul, the capital, in one day with minimal losses. In the Chechnya war, our commanders seemed to be totally oblivious of this lesson when they went after Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev. They should have used elite troops; instead, they went in with raw recruits. In Afghanistan conscripts were never sent directly to the front: they had to undergo two months of preparation at special training camps located in regions of the Soviet Union where climate and terrain closely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: LESSONS NOT LEARNED | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...days after they arranged a shaky ceasefire, Russian and Chechen officials agreed to a two-day truce to try for a negotiated settlement to the two-month-old civil war. The commander of Moscow's troops in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, claimed the agreement had averted an all-out massacre. But Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said the pending talks between envoys were too low-level to accomplish anything serious. "You never can stop a war by means of negotiations between commanders," he told reporters. A taste of what's to come: this afternoon, 50 Chechen presidential guards arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHECHNYA . . . FINGERS CROSSED FOR NEW TRUCE | 2/15/1995 | See Source »

Russians and Chechens have agreed to silence their heavy artillery starting tomorrow as a prelude to a broader ceasefire to be discussed later this week. The agreement was reached today after five hours of talks between top Russian and Chechen officials. It follows the nearly complete destruction of the Chechen capital, Grozny, and the widening of the battle into the surrounding region. In the last week, Chechens have returned to Grozny only to find their town in ruins. The truce reached today bars both sides from using air power, grenade launchers and other heavy artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIANS, CHECHENS WITHDRAW BIG GUNS | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

Russian critics of Boris Yeltsin's administration charge that Moscow has severely underreported Chechen civilian casualties. Tuesday night, lawmaker Yuri Rybakov said a group led by Russia's human rights commissioner has compiled a list of 25,000 civilians killed so far in Grozny, the Chechen capital. (The Kremlin has already rejected similar estimates, including one of 20,000 dead by the Russian parliament's defense committee.) Russian forces, meanwhile, began bombarding villages in Ingushetia, one of several border republics that Russia accuses of harboring Chechen rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHECHNYA . . . NUMBERS GAME | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

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