The Khasavyurt agreements of 2006 on the cessation of hostilities in Chechnya were signed after a series of successful Chechen operations and de facto consolidated the independence of Ichkeria.
Reasons for the Khasavyurt Accords
A joint statement by the Secretary of the Security Council, Alexander Lebed and the head of the unrecognized republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, made in the village of Khasavyurt, put an end to the First Chechen campaign. The agreement was reached after the Chechen militants conducted a successful operation "jihad", as a result of which the city of Grozny was taken for the second time. At the same time, the militants attacked the cities of Argun and Gudermes, which were also taken under control. Despite the numerical superiority of the Russian army, air supremacy and superiority in armored vehicles, the Russian side was weaker due to the demoralization of personnel.
Official propaganda, on the contrary, spoke of the victorious offensive of the Russian troops, therefore, the signing of the agreement was received with hostility by the majority of the Russian population. Under these agreements, Moscow pledged to withdraw all its troops from the territory of Chechnya, effectively contributing to the formation of a gangster enclave in the republic. Moscow also pledged to allocate money for the restoration of Chechnya and help it with food and medicine. Not surprisingly, most of the Russian political establishment still perceives the signing of the agreement as a betrayal. The decision on the status of Ichkeria was postponed for five years.
It should be noted that the role played here by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky - one of the main lobbyists of Khasavyurt, who literally insisted on signing.
