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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...
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...
...soldier see no change in our position and our duty,'' declared the Chechen commander in chief, Colonel Aslan Maskhadov, speaking in Nazran, capital of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. ``Our high command continues to exist. Our volunteers are at their places and are ready to fight on harder than ever. If they think they can insult and enslave the Chechen people, this fighting will go on for years...
...Yeltsin contemplated that possibility, he was also scrambling to deal with the political and economic fallout from his unpopular and ill-advised campaign. Despite official denials, three Deputy Defense Ministers who had been openly critical of the Chechen war were reported to have been ousted by Yeltsin, including General Boris Gromov, the popular Afghan war veteran widely viewed as a strong contender for the post of Defense Minister. Yeltsin also sought to project the image that he was in command. ``I am in strict control of the Russian security structures, and I learn about the situation in Chechnya every...
Even as Yeltsin spoke, serious things were happening in Moscow that he was powerless to stop. Financial markets, al- ready spooked by the Chechen conflict and further unnerved by the atmosphere of political uncertainty, drove the ruble toward an all-time low against the dollar, even as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund was in Moscow to review the govern- ment's commitment to economic reform. At stake is a $12 billion loan package to back an economic-stabilization program. Parliament jeopardized that program last week by deciding to delay a critical vote on the 1995 budget that...