The article offers information on the inauguration of Ramzan Kadyrov as the new president of Chechnya. It is noted that Gudermes, Chechnya's second largest city, was chosen as the site for the ceremonies. Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of the Chechen People's Assembly, opened the affair. ...
then to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, which were institutions within the government of the Soviet Union, not the Communist Party. After thefall of the Soviet Unionand the resignation of Gorbachev, Yeltsin was elected as the first president of the Russian Federation on June ...
President Obama said the U.S. and Russia could work together on a political transition, but only if Assad leaving power was the result. Putin is Assad's most powerful backer.
And first among them, he made it clear, was his current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, who in his five months in office has ridden a vicious war in the breakaway region of Chechnya to widespread popularity. Putin will function as acting president for three months, in accordance with the ...
The politically sophisticated have no doubt the real impetus behind the war is the battle in Moscow to succeed President Boris Yeltsin. Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, has risen from nonentity to a contender for the presidency because he ordered the Chechnya invasion. 鈥...
Reports assassination attempt on acting president of Chechnya, Russia. Death of Prime Minister Sergei Abramov's bodyguards in the explosion; Tension in the republic; Investigation of the explosion.Trenina-StrausovaAlinaEBSCO_AspCurrent Digest of the Post Soviet Press...
Discusses the resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the election of Vladimir Putin as new President. Media coverage of the resignation of Yeltsin; Observation that Putin's previous tenure as Prime Minister was dominated by the war in Chechnya and its ...
Focuses on the impact that the death of Chechnya's President Dzhokhar Dudayev has had on the campaign of Boris Yeltsin for president of Russia in 1996. Other members of the presidential field and how their chances compare to that of Yeltsin; Implications for the Chechens.Cooperman...
Discusses the resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the election of Vladimir Putin as new President. Media coverage of the resignation of Yeltsin; Observation that Putin's previous tenure as Prime Minister was dominated by the war in Chechnya and its attendant restrictions on civil ...