Chechnya O’zxia xm-3 talabasi Mirzohidov Ulug’bekning xalqaro mintaqashunoslik fa’nidan tayyorlagan taqdimoti Background of Chechen

REASONS FOR NOT GRANTING

Economic
Political reasons
CHECHNYA WITH INDEPENDENCE

• ECONOMIC
• POLITICAL

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931-2007)

In December 1994, Yeltsin ordered the military invasion of Chechnya in an attempt to restore Moscow's control over the republic. Nearly two years later Yeltsin withdrew federal forces from the devastated Chechnya under a 1996 peace agreement brokered by Alexander Lebed, then Yeltsin's security chief. The peace deal allowed Chechnya greater autonomy but not full independence.

Yeltsin’s Three Points

• Fear of other republics following Chechen example;
• Rich oil fields in the region;
• Convenient access to Black Sea and Middle East.
• The motivations of the Russian and Chechens in these conflicts are complicated. Principally, Russia's stake in Chechnya relates to the fear that if Chechnya becomes independent, even more territories will break away from Russia, leading to its disintegration. Economic interests are another factor, as is a long standing conflict between Russia and Chechnya.

Reasons
When the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990s several Republics gained their independence. An independence movement started in Chechnya but was opposed by Boris Yeltsin who argued:

• Chechnya had not been an independent entity within the Soviet Union – as the Baltic, Central Asian, and other Caucasian States had – but was a part of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic and hence did not have a right under the Soviet constitution to secede;

Reasons

• Other ethnic groups inside Russia, such as the Tatars, would join the Chechens and secede from the Russian Federation if they were granted that right; and
• Chechnya was at a major chokepoint in the oil- infrastructure of the country and hence would hurt the country's economy and control of oil resources.
• The capital, Grozny, is an oil centre with pipelines to the Caspian and Black seas.