From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/16/2006 2:55 AM May 2006 ‘Why did we let this war poison everything?’ Facts in conflict
By Anne Nivat
Area: 16,600 sq km
Population: 1,103,686 (according to the official 2002 Russian census)
President: Alu Alkhanov (since August 2004)
Per capita GDP: $730
Estimates of the number of casualties from the conflict since 1994 vary from 50,000 to 250,000. Over 300,000 Chechens have fled the country since 1994.
Timeline
1 November 1991: Chechen declaration of independence.
11 December 1994: Russian troops move in and first Chechen war begins.
31 August 1996: The Khasavyurt accords signed between Alexander Lebed, the head of the Russian Security Council, and Aslan Maskhadov, head of the separatists, end the war.
27 January 1997: Maskhadov voted president after elections organised in the presence of OSCE observers.
7 August 1999: Two villages in the neighbouring Dagestan Republic attacked by Shamil Bassaev, the radical Chechen Islamist.
1 October 1999: Russian troops invade Chechnya again from the north.
30-31 January 2000: The capital, Grozny, is taken by Russian troops.
28 March 2000: Vladimir Putin elected president of the Russian Federation.
June 2000: Putin places Chechnya under direct presidential administration.
23-26 October 2002: A group of Chechen fighters take 700 spectators hostage in Moscow’s Dubrovka theatre. The Russian government orders an assault by special forces that leads to the death of 115 hostages.
22 November 2002: At an informal summit, George Bush and Vladimir Putin smooth over their differences about Chechnya in the name of an anti-terrorist alliance.
5 October 2003: Akhmad Kadyrov elected president of Chechnya with 82.5% of votes. He was assassinated on 9 May 2004.
29 August 2004: New pro-Russian president Alu Alkhanov elected. Ramzan Kadyrov, son of the former president, becomes vice-president.
1 September 2004: Chechen terrorists take hundreds of children and adults hostage in a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan (Russian Federation). Russian special forces storm the school after a three-day siege; 344 civilians, including 186 children, were killed.
8 March 2005: Russian special forces assassinate the former separatist president, Aslan Maskhadov.
3 March 2006: Ramzan Kadyrov becomes prime minister in place of Sergei Abramov, seriously injured in a car accident in Moscow.
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