YELTSIN ANNOUNCES CHECHNYA SETTLEMENT PLAN.
YELTSIN ANNOUNCES CHECHNYA SETTLEMENT PLAN.
In a long-postponed address, Russian president Boris Yeltsin told the country on television yesterday that Russian forces were ending operations in Chechnya at 24:00 that day and beginning a phased withdrawal "beyond Chechnya’s administrative border," i.e. to Ingushetia and Dagestan. Yeltsin also said that the Kremlin intends to negotiate with Djohar Dudaev’s side through mediators in order
