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Russian Politics After Chechnya

Journal Article

Author
Michael A. McFaul - Stanford University

Published by
Foreign Policy, Vol. 99, page(s) 149-165
Summer 1995


On December 10, 1994, Russian president Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian armed forces into the Republic of Chechnya. For eight weeks thereafter, the Russian military waged a poorly organized but brutally destructive assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny.

Topics: Russia