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...Even as Chechnya waged war against Russia Tuesday, the break-away republic's fugitive leader Gen. Dzhokar Dudayev answered students' questions via speaker phone at the Russian Research Center, according to Marshall I. Goldman, the center's associate director...
...problem is more acute than a misdiagnosis of our social problems. The most pernicious effects of this racial corporatism are felt in faraway places, in Bosnia and Rwanda and Turkey and Chechnya. While America is hardly threatened by a race war, its existence as a unified state has always depended on relegating ethnicity to the perimeter of politics...
...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...
...russians are going to win the civil war in Chechnya [Jan. 23]. Interference by other countries would prolong the period before an inevitable Russian victory and cause more deaths...
...Thaddeus Hutyra Antwerp, Belgium It's too late for yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia...