Doku Zavgaev
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Doku Zavgaev (Zavgayev) is the former Soviet leader of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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[edit] Communist leader
In 1989, Zavgaev, a former collective farm manager and senior Soviet Communist Party official, was appointed as the first Chechen First Secretary of the autonomous republic since the Chechens' return in 1957. After having been removed from power by Dzhokhar Dudaev in the fall of 1991, Zavgaev left the republic, publicly announcing that he would return.
[edit] Chechen war
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By the spring of 1994 Zavgaev managed to convince both the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin and the heads of the "force ministries" that Russia should actively intervene in Chechnya, where he became appointed pro-Moscow head of state on October 24, 1995.
On December 8, 1996, Zavgaev and Viktor Chernomyrdin and signed an agreement as a basis for a Russian-Chechen federation treaty which would give Chechnya broad autonomy along the lines of the between Russia and Tartarstan, and which also incorporated the main points of Ruslan Khasbulatov's earlier proposal.[1]
[edit] Postwar career
After the 1996 defeat and withdrawal of the Russian forces from Chechnya, he was appointed Russia's ambassador in Tanzania. Currently he is Deputy Foreign Minister and Director General of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
[edit] Notes
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- ^ Anatol Lieven, Chechnya, Yale University Press, p.137, ISBN 0-300-07398-4
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