Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments

Publication Date: May 2000

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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This report examines military airstrikes and ground operations that Russia launched against its Chechnya region in late September 1999. It provides background information on earlier Chechen guerrilla attacks on the neighboring Dagestan region of Russia and on the unsolved terrorist bombing of several apartment buildings in Russia. Current problems of governance in Chechnya are discussed, as well as Chechnya’s response to the Russian offensive. The concerns of the United States and other Western governments about the conflict are examined. A map is included. This product may be updated. Related products include CRS Issue Brief 92089, Russia, updated regularly; and CRS Reports 95-207, Russian Conflict in Chechnya; 95-338, Beyond Chechnya: Some Options; 96-193, Chechnya Conflict: Recent
Developments; and 96-974, Russia: Chechnya at Peace? This report supercedes CRS Report RS20358, Chechnya Conflict.