Timeline
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1963 – Khassan Baiev is born in Alkhan Kala, a suburb of the Chechen
capital of Grozny.
1980 – Baiev enters Medical Institute at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia; graduates
in 1985.
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in Moscow; launches reform
program of "glasnost" (transparency) and "perestroika"
(rebuilding).
1988 – Dr. Baiev returns to Chechnya after eight years of medical
education in Siberia.
1989 – East Europe countries break free from status of Soviet satellites;
Berlin Wall falls.
1991 – Failed coup attempt against Gorbachev in August; USSR collapses;
Gorbachev resigns December 31.
1991 – November: Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev declares Chechnya
independent and no longer a part of the Russian Federation.
1994 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin tries to rein in Chechnya,
launches First War against Chechnya in effort to preserve integrity of Russian
Federation.
1995 – Chechen commander Shamil Basayev seizes maternity hospital
in Budyonnovsk, Russia; forces Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin into peace talks.
1996 – Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev is mortally wounded by an
explosion.
1996 – Russia and Chechnya end First War with Khasavyurt Agreement;
Chechnya's political status to be defined by 2001.
1996-1999 – Chechnya attempts to reconstruct after war damage.
1999 – Chechen commander Shamil Basayev attacks Dagestan with 2,000
men hoping for an uprising against Russia. When that fails, he retreats.
Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin prime minister and launches Second War against
Chechnya; Yeltsin resigns suddenly on December 31, 1999.
2000 – Putin elected President of Russian Federation, March 26. Chechen
fighters retreat from Grozny in early February; Dr. Baiev flees to Ingushetia;
escapes to United States in April.
2001 – September 11, Islamic terrorists hijack four U.S. domestic
airliners; crash into World Trade Center and Pentagon. President Bush declares
war on terrorism. President Putin joins war on terrorism, declares Chechnya
is in league with Islamic terrorists.
2003 – October 5, Russians set date for “free” elections
determining new Chechen president. |
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