All-National Congress of the Chechen People

All-National Congress of the Chechen People
Общенациональный конгресс чеченского народа
FounderDzhokhar Dudayev
Founded1 May 1990 (1 May 1990)
Dissolved22 April 1996 (22 April 1996)
IdeologyChechen nationalism
Political positionBig tent
ReligionSunni Islam
International affiliationUnrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
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The All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP) of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria came to power on 1 November 1991 under president Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former commander of the Soviet air force base in Tartu, Estonia. Since its formation, the organization advocated sovereignty for Chechnya as a separate republic within the Soviet Union. During the period of Soviet breakup, it switched this to explicit support for the separation of "Ichkeria" from Russia.[1]

On 7 September 1991, the NCChP National Guard seized government buildings and the radio and television center. They stormed a session of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR Supreme Soviet, which caused the death of the Soviet Communist Party chief for Grozny, Vitali Kutsenko, who was either thrown out of a window or fell trying to escape, and effectively dissolved the government of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.[2][3] Between 1991 and 2000 Chechnya was de facto an independent state.

  1. ^ Galina M. Yemelianova (December 16, 2009). Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union. Taylor & Francis. p. 63. ISBN 9781135182861. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ Matthew Evangelista (May 13, 2004). The Chechen Wars Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?. Brookings Institution Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780815724971. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  3. ^ Tracey C. German (February 6, 2003). Russia's Chechen War. Taylor & Francis. p. 176. ISBN 9781134432493. Retrieved 5 January 2022.

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