First Chechen Campaign of 1994-96 through the eyesof British and American War Correspondents
Abstract
This article is devoted to the issue of perception, interpretation, and evaluation of the First Chechen Campaign of 1994-1996 by American and British war correspondents, who witnessed the events. The sources used, memoirs and war diaries, are not known to the broad circle of researchers in Russia. These sources were analyzed and the article presents the most typical tendencies of war events evaluation by their authors. Particular attention is paid to the politics and mistakes made by B. Yeltsin and D. Dudayev, as their role in defining the lines of development of relationship between Federal Forces and Chechnya was decisive. The article also gives an account of the most important events, such as: the first military assault of Grozny, the hostage-taking in Budyonovsk, the death of D. Dudayev. The descriptions give notion of the correspondents’ sympathies and points of view, thus supplementing the existing understanding and perception of the issue in general.
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