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Name: First Chechen War

Type: Event

Start: 1991 AD

End: 1996 AD

Parent: Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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Was a war of independence which the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria waged against the Russian Federation from December 1994 to August 1996.

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1. Chechen Secession

Was the secession of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from the Soviet Union at the beginning of the First Chechen War.

  • September 1991: Militants of the All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP) party, created by the former Soviet Air Force general Dzhokhar Dudayev, stormed a session of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR Supreme Soviet with the aim of asserting independence.
  • January 1993: In 1992 the Ingush joined the newly created Russian Federation to try to resolve the conflict with Ossetia peacefully.
  • November 1991: Chechnya declared full independence from Moscow in 1993 as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI).

    • 2. Russian military intervention (First Chechen War)

    Was the Russian military intervention in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria during the First Chechen War.

  • April 1995: The border village of Samashki was seized by Russian troops.
  • August 1996: Battle of Grozny (August 1996).
  • February 1995: The First Battle of Grozny took place in 1995 in the capital of Chechnya.

    • 3. Khasav-Yurt Accord

    Russia and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria signed the Khasav-Yurt Accord on 31 August 1996, ending the First Chechen War.

  • August 1996: Khasav-Yurt Accord. Continuation of Chechnya's de facto independence, however de jure it remained a part of the Russian Federation,.

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