... in Chechnya. Popular elections were held and the leader of the coup, Jokhar Dudayev, was elected their leader and swiftly claimed independence from Russia. Boris Yeltsin supported a coup attempt against Dudayev but failed miserably, so Moscow ordered its troops to invade Chechnya. The Russian forces stormed into Grozny, the ... to Dr. Aslambek Kadiev, "The political purpose of the first Chechen war was to increase Boris Yeltsin's popularity and get him re-elected president in 1996- (Kadiev). Vladimir Putin took control of Russia after Yeltsin, and Putin has seemed to make it his mission ...

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... in Chechnya. Popular elections were held and the leader of the coup, Jokhar Dudayev, was elected their leader and swiftly claimed independence from Russia. Boris Yeltsin supported a coup attempt against Dudayev but failed miserably, so Moscow ordered its troops to invade Chechnya. The Russian forces stormed into Grozny, the ... to Dr. Aslambek Kadiev, "The political purpose of the first Chechen war was to increase Boris Yeltsin's popularity and get him re-elected president in 1996- (Kadiev). Vladimir Putin took control of Russia after Yeltsin, and Putin has seemed to make it his mission ...

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... : of all the former Russian republics and autonomous republics, only Tatarstan and Chechnya refused to ratify the 1992 Russian Federation Treaty that established Yeltsin's present Russian Federation. Moscow immediately attacked both de facto secessions, and the Tatar case is pending appeal before the new Russian Constitutional Court ... conflict raged on for a year and a half before, in the beginning of 1996, President Boris Yeltsin agreed to end it, fearing it was about to claim yet another casualty, his political career. Yeltsin who had dispatched the troops in 1994 to crush the revolt ...

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