Word: chechenization
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...movement has begun feeding on itself. In the former Soviet Union, for example, the success of Latvians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Georgians and Tajik, among others, in breaking free from Moscow has encouraged separatist movements inside Russia. Tatars, Chechen, Ingush and Yakut are demanding either greater autonomy within the Russian Federation or full independence. In many areas, though, ethnic groups are so thoroughly mixed that it is impossible to draw neat border lines between their respective turfs. Any attempt to do so only creates new minority problems: a Serb minority in Croatia, for example, instead of a Croat minority in a Serb...
...Secretary and bank executive, claimed ignorance about the B.C.C.I. scandal, but investigators were more than a little skeptical . . . Germany found that reunions can be angst ridden and downright divisive -- not to mention expensive . . . But that didn't mean anyone wanted Erich Honecker back, except for some character in the Chechen-Ingush region of Russia who invited the former East German boss to settle down there...
...week's end the East German still had two options: North Korea offered temporary refuge, while permanent sanctuary was held out by Dzhokhar Dudayev, the President of the tiny, self-proclaimed Chechen republic (which broke away from Russia's Chechen-Ingush region). A staunch anticommunist, Dudayev said he offered his hospitality "to save the honor of both Gorbachev and Yeltsin...
Faced with a virtual rebellion in Chechen-Ingush, a small, predominantly Muslim autonomous republic of 1.3 million in the south of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin declared a state of emergency and deployed 532 interior- ministry special police. The show of force only rallied support for Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former general who leads the revolt. As armed loyalists surrounded the federation force, Yeltsin's resolve began to crumble, and he agreed to the withdrawal of the stranded troopers. In Moscow the Russian ; parliament delivered its own blow to the president's authority by voting overwhelmingly to veto his emergency decree...
Russia's ethnic troubles only begin with Chechen-Ingush. Though non-Russian nationalities make up less than 20% of the federation's population, the 31 autonomous areas they occupy constitute nearly half its territory. And many of them have proclaimed their desire for independence...