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First Chechen War-25 Years On

Initially Russian generals thought that the pacification of Chechnya would be a matter of days or weeks. The troops they sent across the border and toward Grozny, the Chechen capital, however soon found themselves bogged down in an icy quagmire and grim house-to-house fighting.Though President Boris Yeltsin is said to have had grave doubts about the invasion, telling the Speaker of the Duma at...