Word: dudayev
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Yeltsin's fiction of noninvolvement vanished last week. The causes: a botched coup and POWS in danger. A coalition of anti-Dudayev forces had rolled into Chechnya's capital of Grozny in late November only to be repelled by Dudayev loyalists, who claim to have destroyed 20 tanks and killed 350 people in the fighting. They also captured 120 Russian soldiers among the rebels and paraded them on television. Back in Russia, the families of the prisoners identified their kin as members of a Russian army unit. Yeltsin could no longer afford to dissemble. Until then, Moscow had always insisted...
When the deadline passed at 6 a.m. Thursday without any action from Dudayev, Russian troops began massing on the borders of the mountainous, land-locked region. Meanwhile, Dudayev's opponents sent sophisticated jet fighters -- planes that could never have been procured or even operated without Russian help -- to bomb military bases and the airport in Grozny. To show that Yeltsin really meant business, 30 Antonov An-12 transport planes with soldiers and armor were deployed in the neighboring ethnic republic of North Ossetia...
...make decisions, but when he does, watch out. For three years, he has tolerated a secessionist movement in Chechnya, an oil- rich, predominantly Muslim enclave of 1.1 million people in Russia's North Caucasus region. Rather than take direct steps to resolve the impasse with Chechen president Jokhar Dudayev, who champions breaking away, the Kremlin has waged a proxy war against him by giving covert military and financial support to Dudayev's pro-Moscow opponents...
...rhetoric. The Kremlin announced that Yeltsin had not actually signed an order imposing a state of emergency in Chechnya. Instead, he offered all Chechens a limited amnesty if they voluntarily handed in their weapons by Dec. 15. Hopes for a settlement focused on a parliamentary delegation that met with Dudayev in Grozny and returned to Moscow with two of the imprisoned Russians...
...illegal" troops in the tiny Caucasus Mountain republic. Already today, Russian warplanes flew over Chechnya's capital, Grozny, and Russian troops massed nearby. The standoff, which has been brewing for weeks but generated little serious international concern, centers on accusations from Moscow that the government of Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev is a criminal regime that rules through gangsters and terrorists. Dudayev unilaterally declared independence in 1991. Yeltsin's decree was not necessarily politically popular and one group of Russian lawmakers wrote: "All responsibility for the blood that would be spilled will rest personally with you, and Russia will go from...