Word: dudayev
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...Wednesday, Dec. 14, Chechen president Jokhar Dudayev had broken off negotiations with a Russian team and summoned his people to "a war for life or death." But on Friday he proclaimed a cease-fire and announced that he would reopen talks. The stated positions of the two sides would seem to leave nothing to talk about. Dudayev was demanding that Russia immediately pull out its forces and recognize the full independence he had proclaimed for Chechnya three years ago, while Yeltsin insisted as a precondition for any withdrawal that the Chechens disarm and end their secession. The view in Moscow...
Russian rockets slammed Grozny, capital of separatist Chechnya, Monday night as Moscow tightened its grip on the breakaway republic, while hundreds of thousands of Chechen villagers lined roadways and linked arms in a peaceful protest against advancing Russian troops. Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev said 120 people died in the missile attack and denounced Russia for the "mass killing of peaceful citizens." Chechen radio said the Russian attacks targeted residential areas and administrative buildings. A Russian government statement acknowledged the worsening situation in Grozny but blamed Dudayev, saying he's holding his own people hostage. Meanwhile, Russia closed its borders with...
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...
...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's President Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, decided to play chicken. Russian forces "will be attacked from the rear in a traditional tactic of mountaineers: hit and run, hit and run, which will exhaust them until they, out of fear and terror, give up," he said on Russian...
...good deal riding on a speedy resolution of the power struggle in Grozny. It is a test of his authority and political will to hold together a Russian federation of 89 ethnic republics and regions in danger of splitting apart just as the Soviet Union did in 1991. Dudayev's campaign for independence is only the most flagrant example of a growing regional revolt against the central government over issues of local sovereignty and tax policy...