Word: chechnya
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...drilling for oil in Azerbaijan build a pipeline through Russia, a demand that has aborted some promising deals. The U.S. responded calmly to Yeltsin's announcement on Friday that he had authorized the army to use "all means at * the state's disposal" to bring the breakaway republic of Chechnya back into the Russian Federation. "The Chechnya question is a Russian internal matter," announced the State Department. But in some American -- especially Republican -- eyes, Russia's dispatch of "peacekeeping" troops to Tajikistan, Georgia and other now independent Soviet republics looks like an attempt to force them back under Moscow...
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin offered today to negotiate face-to-face with the leader of separatist Chechnya, but Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said only a complete Russian pullout from the insurgent Caucasian republic would end the conflict. Even so, Dudayev ordered his fighters to cease fire and pull back inside the capital, Grozny, this afternoon to avoid Russian shelling. "The Chechen people will stay to the end," he declared. "We have no other way." Chernomyrdin, who has toned down Russian rhetoric after President Boris Yeltsin extended until Saturday a deadline for Chechen surrender, emphasized his negotiation offer with ominous...
Amid non-committal statements on the Chechnya crisis today from worried U.S. officials at home, Vice President Al Gore pointedly avoided mention of the affair when he arrived in Moscow today for three days of economic and political talks. Gore -- on a mission to help mend ragged U.S. - Russian relations -- said he anticipated "serious talks . . . between friends...
Even as representatives of Russia and the insurgent republic of Chechnya huddled today for a second day of peace talks to end the budding civil war, fighting intensified between Russian jets and gunships and Chechen forces. In scattered skirmishes, Chechen troops killed at least two Russians, while Russian jets and gunships wounded at least two rebels. (Chechen claims that two Russian planes were downed remain unconfirmed.) Even as the Kremlin promised there would be no assault on Grozny, Russian troops have nearly encircled the city and warned the bloodshed would intensify unless the Chechen forces give up. But Chechnya...
...same day that Russian tanks, planes and troops engaged in battle with forces from the breakaway republic of Chechnya, Chechen leaders began peace talks with Moscow aimed at ending Russia's biggest military action since it sent troops into Afghanistan in 1979. "We have come to find peaceful means of settling the conflict," the head of a Chechen delegation said just before talks opened today in neighboring North Ossetia. Meanwhile, Russian forces continued their advance toward the Chechen capital, Grozny, after the Caucasian republic's loyalists reportedly fired rockets on the advancing troops, killing at least two people. Russian President...