The Khasavyurt agreements, which entered into force in late summer 1996, marked the end of the First Chechen War, which lasted since December 1994.
The main episodes and the end of the military conflict
Federal troops were introduced into the republic in December 1994. The reason for such a government step was the strengthening here frankly Gangster and anti-government elements that contributed to destabilization in the region with the aim of further separating Ichkeria from Russia: widespread ethnic clashes, the collapse of the republic's infrastructure, radicalization of Islamic youth, record unemployment, multiple crime rates here, and so on. By the commissioning of the federal troops in December 1994, it was planned to stabilize the situation and put an end to the antigovernment elements' antics before the new year, but a significant underestimation of the enemy forces led to a protracted war. In Moscow, they believed that Dzhokhar Dudayev had only a couple of hundred armed militants. Practice has shown that there were more than ten thousand of them, also well trained and financed by the states of the Muslim East. The storming of the city of Grozny lasted for several months, until March 1995, and Final control over the region was established only in the summer of this year, after which protracted negotiations about the terms of peace were started. However, the emerging rapprochement was again broken by militants who organized a terrorist attack in Kizlyar in January 1996 and an attempt to win back Grozny. In fact, the end of the war in Chechnya came after the murder of Dzhokhar Dudayev in April this year. After that, the war once again passed into a stage of stagnation and sluggish negotiations. The last 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 presupposed that Russia should withdraw its troops from the territories. The decision on the status of the republic of Chechnya was postponed for five years, until December 2001. Prior to this period, the entire marked territory is managed by a joint commission established by representatives of federal and local government bodies.
The real consequences of the act
Today, the Khasavyurt agreements are customarily scolded, based on the consequences they have brought to the country. In fact, they once again showed full Inability of the parties to agree. Despite the clauses of the agreements on combating organized crime, restoring the infrastructure of the economic and economic complex of the republic, and so on, the Khasavyurt agreements once 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 the logic in signing such an act at the time of August 1996 was definitely. Here we should take into account the situation in which President Yeltsin and the central government found themselves after a bloody conflict, as well as strong pressure from the public, who wanted an early cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of conscript soldiers from the Caucasus.