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Article: No miracles. (lies by the Russian government about the civil war in Chechnya)(Column)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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When they look back on the last decade of this century, Russian historians may well call it the decade of local wars. The former Communist empire is ringed by bloody ethnic conflicts. Armenians are fighting Azerbaijanis, Georgians are fighting Abkhazians and each other, and the Tajik opposition, which attacks from nearby Afghanistan, is at war with the Tajik government and the Russian troops that guard the TajikAfghan border. There is no end in sight.
At the close of 1994, it was Russia's turn. The war in Chechnya was the first outbreak on Russian territory. Russia's attempt to oust Dzhokhar Dudayev, the leader of the Chechen republic who declared its independence ...