RUSSIA LEBED, MASKHADOV SIGN NEW CHECHEN CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT. In eight hours of talks in the Chechen village of Novye Atagi on 22 August, Russian Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lebed and...
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OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 162, 21 Aug 96
RUSSIA CIVILIANS FLEE GROZNY, ULTIMATUM REMAINS IN FORCE. Citizens of Grozny on 20 August continued to flee the city following the ultimatum issued the previous day by the interim commander of the...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 162, 21 Aug 96
(excerpt) TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA ARDZINBA REITERATES READINESS TO MEET WITH SHEVARDNADZE. Abkhaz President Vladislav Ardzinba, responding on 20 August to his Georgian counterpart Eduard...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 160, 19 Aug 96
RUSSIA LEBED DENOUNCES INTERIOR MINISTER KULIKOV . . . At a 16 August Moscow press conference following his return from Chechnya, Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lebed called on President...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 160, 19 Aug 96
(excerpt) TRANSCAUCASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA ETHNIC ARMENIANS IN ABKHAZIA. BGI on 15 August published a report detailing the strains in relations between ethnic Armenians and Abkhaz in the breakaway...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 158, 15 Aug 96
RUSSIA FIGHTING SLACKENS IN GROZNY. An uneasy calm settled over central Grozny on the afternoon of 14 August, Russian and Western agencies reported. Chechen fighters control most of the town, except...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 150, 5 Aug 96
AID WORKERS ABDUCTED IN CHECHNYA. A French and a British aid worker with Action Against Hunger were abducted in Grozny on 27 July, and a ransom of half a million dollars was demanded for their...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 158, 15 Aug 96
TRANSCAUCASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA MORE ON ABKHAZ PEACEKEEPER MANDATE. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Demurin said that Georgia and Abkhazia have agreed to extend and somewhat amend the...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 157, 14 Aug 96
CEASEFIRE IN GROZNY? The commander of Federal Forces in Chechnya, Gen. Konstantin Pulikovskii, and separatist Chechen Chief of Staff Aslan Maskhadov met in the Chechen village of Novye Atagi on 13...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 156, 13 Aug 96
LEBED TAKES CHARGE OF CHECHEN TALKS . . . Security Council Secretary Aleksandr Lebed returned to Moscow from Chechnya on 12 August and briefed President Yeltsin on the results of his talks with...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 156, 13 Aug 96
MORE ON RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN ABKHAZIA. The Russian Federation Council has agreed to double the number of troops in the Russian-dominated CIS peacekeeping force in Abkhazia to 3,000 and expand...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 153, 8 Aug 96
RUSSIA STANDOFF CONTINUES IN GROZNY. Fighting continued in central Grozny on 7- 8 August as Chechen militants tried without success to take the central government building, Russian and Western media...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 152, 7 Aug 96
RUSSIA CHECHEN MILITANTS "IN CONTROL OF GROZNY." Heavy fighting in Grozny between Chechen militants and Russian forces continued during the night of 6-7 August, and as of mid-morning on 7 August the...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 151, 6 Aug 96
RUSSIA CHECHENS LAUNCH MAJOR ASSAULT ON GROZNY. During the early morning of 6 August, up to 300 Chechen militants attacked Grozny, and heavy fighting was reported in several parts of the city,...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 149, 2 Aug 96
KOVALEV CLAIMS CHECHENS PREPARING DUDAEV DOUBLE. Russian counter- intelligence director Nikolai Kovalev on 1 August attributed rumors that Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev isstill alive and will...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 148, 1 Aug 96
RUSSIAN TROOPS LAUNCH NEW CHECHEN OFFENSIVE. Despite ongoing hostilities in the Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt, and Itum-Kale raions of Chechnya, pro-Moscow Chechen head of state Doku Zavgaev told...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 146, 30 Jul 96
MASKHADOV ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. For the second time this year, Chechen chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov on 29 July escaped an assassination attempt uninjured, Russian and Western agencies...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 145, 29 Jul 96
ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION IN GROZNY. Some 200 people staged an unsanctioned demonstration in Grozny on 26 July to demand the resignation of the pro-Moscow Chechen government and the withdrawal of...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 144, 26 Jul 96
RUSSIA NEW CONDITIONS FOR RENEWING CHECHEN TALKS. Chechen chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov said on 25 July that he is prepared to meet with the head of the North Caucasus Military District, Lt.-Gen...
OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 143, 25 Jul 96
MASKHADOV, KVASHNIN MEETING CALLED OFF. The planned meeting between Chechen chief of staff Aslan Maskhadov and the commander of the Russian Interior Ministry troops in Chechnya, Lt.-Gen. Anatolii...