Word: dudayev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many officers, particularly in the Defense Ministry and on the General Staff, entertained any illusions that Russia would accept the independence of the defiant Chechen republic. But since large stockpiles of weapons were left behind in 1992 when President Jokhar Dudayev deported the Russian units serving in his region, army leaders and the President's advisers could hardly have believed the Chechen crisis would have a bloodless resolution. Chechen civilians have been dying, not because the military aimed to kill them, but because many soldiers have forgotten -- or never learned -- how to shoot straight, and often their missiles hit civilian...
...talk about peaceful solutions, it is not clear what kind of compromise can be negotiated. Last week Chechnya's president Jokhar Dudayev, decked out in camouflage fatigues, held a press conference on the southern outskirts of Grozny to call for a halt to the fighting. There was no military solution to the crisis, he said, and peace could be agreed on "in a day, in an hour, at the stroke of a pen." But Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, waffled when asked if he would drop his demand for independence and settle for autonomy inside the Russian Federation...
...Grozny, fighting continued as fiercely as ever, with Chechen troops recapturing Grozny's train station and nearly wiping out recent Russian gains. A ceasefire that was supposed to take hold Wednesday at midnight seemed destined to be ignored. Russian President Boris Yeltsin ruled out talks with Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Chechen leaders said they would never lay down their arms...
...crack special teams were deployed first to seize Chechen President Jokhar - Dudayev or immobilize street commanders. Some Russian infantrymen drove into Grozny in long columns of armored personnel carriers, but instead of charging out to fight off the Chechen guerrillas, they stayed buttoned up inside their vehicles. The Chechens used their antitank grenades to blast the Russian armor from the rear and from above. Sometimes they simply blew treads off the lead and last tanks, immobilizing the column. When frightened young Russians climbed out to flee, they were mowed down with rifle fire or captured...
...president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's defense: TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says...