Word: chechenization
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...Russian soldiers hoisted their flag over Chechnya's gutted presidential palace in Grozny, the republic's capital, Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared an end to the bloody six-week rebellion. "Don't worry. Everything will be settled soon on the Chechen issue," he said. "I am in strict control." Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, and battle-hardened Chechen fighters vowed to take their fight into the mountains south of Grozny-promising a long and fierce guerrilla...
Meanwhile in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev held lengthy, sometimes cool discussions about the Chechen war. "What we don't want to see is a Russia mired in a military quagmire," Christopher told reporters. "I reiterated to the Foreign Minister that the conflict must be brought to an end." For his part, Kozyrev insisted that the rebellion was a "purely domestic matter...
...boasted that his forces would subdue Chechnya's rebellion in a matter of hours, the Russian tricolor finally fluttered last week atop the ruins of the presidential palace in Grozny. As resistance fighters melted into the suburbs and took to the hills, the bloody battle for control of the Chechen capital shifted sufficiently in Moscow's favor to allow Boris Yeltsin to claim victory. This he speedily did. ``The military stage of restoring the constitution in Chechnya is effectively over,'' he declared in Moscow, adding that the time had come for the ``restoration of Chechnya's life-support system...
...wake of a war that has devastated the breakaway region, killed hundreds of civilians and fighters, and created more than 300,000 refugees, Yeltsin's declaration seemed more vacuous than victorious. General Jokhar Dudayev, the Chechen separatist leader, remained at large, and his fighters have vowed to continue their struggle in a mountainous country tailor-made for guerrilla warfare...
Declaring that "everything can be settled in an hour," the decidedly optimistic Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev asked Russia to halt its assault on his capital. Even though Chechnya could not hope to win its secessionist war against Moscow, Dudayev warned that continued fighting might well draw neighboring republics into a wider regional conflict. "Every day leads to a deepening crisis," he warned, "not here, but in Russia." The Russian reply: a renewed attack on Grozny that left Chechen fighters desperately trying to hold their ground and the fall of the capital all but certain...