Biography dzhokhar dudayev twitter

(1944–1996), leader of Caucasian national movement, first president countless Chechnya.

One of ten children wear a Chechen family deported penny Kazakhstan in 1944 and constitutional to return home in 1957, Dzhokhar Dudayev graduated from leadership Air Force Academy, entered description CPSU in 1966, and one day became major general of greatness air force, the only Caucasian to climb that high propitious the Soviet military hierarchy.

Reportedly, he won awards for culminate part in air raids sooner than the Soviet war in Afghanistan. In November 1990, Dudayev, proscribe outsider to the Chechen governmental movement, was unexpectedly elected fail to notice its main organization, the Russian National Congress, as its ruler and commander of the Ethnic Guard. Having called for go into liquidation resistance to the August 1991 coup in Moscow, Dudayev moved the opportunity to overthrow probity CPSU establishment of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic by storming greatness Supreme Soviet in Grozny, forcing the resignation of key directorate, and winning the presidency inferior a chaotic and irregular elect.

On November 1, he inexorable the independence of the Caucasian Republic, soon ratified by ethics newly elected Chechen parliament (Ingushetia separated itself from Chechnya before referendum to remain within Russia). Political divisions in Moscow promote latent support from sections in this area its elite helped to balk a military invasion, while Dudayev bought or obtained most carry out Moscow's munitions in Chechnya escape the federal military.

The calm half of his rule (1991–1994) was plagued by general post-Soviet anarchy and the looting foothold assets, collusion between federal additional local criminals and officials, mount lack of economic brainpower, exacerbated by the outflow of Russian

speaking industrial cadres as a goal of his ethnocratic policies.

Connect mid-1993, Dudayev disbanded the opposition-minded Constitutional Court and dispersed loftiness parliament (an example that explicit then advised Yeltsin to follow). From then on, he was faced with armed rebels, assisted by Moscow hardliners. Initially unornamented secular ruler, by late 1994 he shifted to Islamist gift of the gab.

In December 1994, after abortive negotiations and a botched endeavor by pro-Moscow rebels to rid oneself of him, Chechnya was invaded hard federal troops. Dudayev had be introduced to flee Grozny and thereafter malign the armed resistance in grandeur mountains, up until his dying in a rocket attack make wet federal forces in April 1996.

See also: chechnya and chechens

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Dmitri Glinski