President Boris Yeltsin edged closer to a military crackdown in Chechnya Friday, ordering his government to use “all means at the state’s disposal” to disarm supporters of the breakaway ...

The first Chechen war was widely seen as a national humiliation Many Western leaders have praised Boris Yeltsin's role in the largely peaceful demise of the Soviet Union and Russia's faltering ...

Russia’s chief negotiator in the Chechen peace talks cooled his heels Monday in Moscow, unable to meet with President Boris Yeltsin and seek approval for a new disengagement formula hammered out ...

During the 1990s, President Clinton put pressure on then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin to negotiate with the Chechen rebels. During the Bush administration, the U.S. and Russia had similar ...

(RFE/RL) May 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Ten years ago, on May 12, 1997, the presidents of Russia and Chechnya, Boris Yeltsin and Aslan Maskhadov, met in the Kremlin to sign a treaty "on peace and the ...

The conflict between Russia and Chechnya stretches back to at least 1994, when Russian troops invaded the breakaway republic under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin ...

Chechnya established a secular government in 1991. Three years later, then- President Boris Yeltsin sent Russian troops into the breakaway republic. After two years of waging an unpopular ...

The Russian defense minister at the time, Pavel Grachev, assured then President Boris Yeltsin that the Chechen capital Grozny could be seized in two hours by a regiment of paratroopers.

Still, the Chechen people hoped they would receive a formal apology from newly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In 1993, during a visit to Poland, he honoured the more than 20,000 Polish ...

Later that year, Yeltsin anointed Vladimir Putin his successor and signed off on a renewed war in Chechnya. This offensive, designed to shore up support for the country’s hand-picked new leader ...