The Khasavyurt Accords, which came into force at the end of the summer of 1996, marked the end of the First Chechen War, which had lasted since December 1994.
Main episodes and the end of the military conflict
Federal Russian troops entered the republic in December 1994. The reason for such a government step was the strengthening here frankly
bandit and anti-government elements that contributed to destabilization in the region in order to further separate Ichkeria from Russia: widespread ethnic clashes, the collapse of the republic's infrastructure, the radicalization of Islamic youth, record unemployment, a multiple increase in crime here and so on. With the introduction of federal troops in December 1994, it was planned to stabilize the situation and put an end to the revelry of anti-government elements before the new year, but a significant underestimation of enemy forces led to a protracted war. Moscow believed that Dzhokhar Dudayev had only a couple of hundred armed militants at his disposal. Practice has shown that there were more than ten thousand of them, moreover, they were well trained and financed by the states of the Muslim East. Stormthe city of Grozny lasted several months, until March 1995, and
finally control over the area was established only this summer, after which protracted negotiations on peace terms were launched. However, the emerging rapprochement was again broken by the militants, who staged a terrorist attack in Kizlyar in January 1996, and an attempt to recapture Grozny. In fact, the end of the war in Chechnya came after the assassination of Dzhokhar Dudayev in April of this year. After that, the war again moved into a stage of stagnation and sluggish negotiations. the latter with the remaining separatists continued until August. Their results are known today as the Khasavyurt agreements.
Content of agreements
The text of the Khasavyurt agreement assumed that Russia had to withdraw its troops from the territories. The decision on the status of the Republic of Chechnya was postponed for five years, until December 2001. Until this period, the management of the entire marked territory is carried out by a joint commission created from representatives of federal and local government bodies.
The real consequences of the act
Today, the Khasavyurt agreements are usually criticized based on the consequences they brought to the country. In fact, they once again showed the full
inability of the parties to agree. Despite the clauses of the agreements that speak about measures to combat organized crime, restore the infrastructure of the economic complexrepublics and so on, the Khasavyurt agreements again returned Ichkeria to the uncontrolled growth of Wahhabi sentiments and total crime. In essence, this situation led to the need for a new introduction of federal troops in September 1999 and the beginning of the Second Chechen War. At the same time, it should be noted that there was definitely logic in signing such an act at the time of August 1996. Here one should take into account the situation in which President Yeltsin and the central government found themselves after the bloody conflict, as well as strong pressure from the public, who wanted a speedy cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of conscripts from the Caucasus.
