Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin11 December 1994
Orders federal forces into Chechnya, beginning the First Chechen War.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Orders federal forces into Chechnya, beginning the First Chechen War.
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