Schlagwort: Chechnya

[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 8-9] ‘The war is over!’ claimed Alexander Lebed, Russia’s security chief, as he emerged from talks with Chechen fighters’ leader, Aslan Maskhadov, on August 31. But had a formula really been found to end 20 months of savage fighting over Chechen independence? All federal combat troops were to…