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A) Samashki B) Vedeno C) Dargo D) Gudermes
A) Small covert infantry units B) Paratrooper drops only C) Large columns of 200–300 vehicles D) Naval bombardment
A) Argun B) Shatoy C) Grozny D) Gudermes
A) Ruslan Gelayev B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Shamil Basayev D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) Benoy B) Dargo C) Vedeno D) Serzhen'-Yurt
A) Approximately 10,000 B) Approximately 1,000 C) Approximately 5,000 D) Approximately 2,800
A) The fall of Grozny B) The battle of Dargo C) Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis D) The death of Dudayev
A) Anatoliy Romanov B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Boris Yeltsin D) Viktor Chernomyrdin
A) They included child soldiers and females B) They lacked any organized command structure C) They consisted entirely of foreign mercenaries D) They were composed only of former Soviet officers
A) He retired from his command position B) He was critically injured and paralyzed in a bomb blast C) He was captured and held as a prisoner D) He was assassinated by Chechen rebels in a sniper attack
A) Shamil Basayev B) Anatoliy Romanov C) Ruslan Gelayev D) Aslan Maskhadov
A) The presidential palace B) The regional parliament building C) The main military headquarters D) The Grozny hospital
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Ruslan Khasbulatov C) Lavrentiy Beria D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Economic bankruptcy B) Refusal to pay taxes C) Collaboration with German forces D) Communist insurgency
A) 1994 B) 1991 C) 1957 D) 1944
A) Nikita Khrushchev B) Lavrentiy Beria C) Joseph Stalin D) Boris Yeltsin
A) March 1992 B) February 1994 C) December 1991 D) January 1990
A) Exactly 60% B) Less than 50% C) Almost 95% D) More than 80%
A) 1 December 1991 B) 31 March 1992 C) 15 February 1994 D) 1 January 1990
A) 100 B) 88 C) 86 D) 80
A) Ruslan Khasbulatov B) Mintimer Shaimiev C) Boris Yeltsin D) Khanpasha Nuradilov
A) Expulsion from the federation B) Annexation by a neighboring state C) Greater autonomy within Russia D) Immediate independence
A) Tatarstan B) Ingushetia C) Chechnya D) Siberia
A) Tatar B) Ingush C) Russian D) Chechen
A) 1989–1992 B) 1994–1996 C) 1999–2009 D) 1991–1993
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Boris Yeltsin C) Aslan Maskhadov D) Dzhokhar Dudayev
A) The collapse of the Soviet Union B) The capture of Grozny in 1995 C) The death of Dzhokhar Dudayev D) A second Russian invasion three years after the first peace treaty
A) 14,000 B) 2,800 C) 10,000 D) 5,500
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Aslan Maskhadov C) Imam Shamil D) Sheikh Mansur
A) The Caucasian Pact B) Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty C) The Moscow Agreement D) Khasavyurt Accord
A) 5,000 to 14,000 B) 30,000 to 100,000 C) 10,000 to 15,000 D) 200,000 to 500,000
A) Dzhokhar Dudayev B) Imam Shamil C) Boris Yeltsin D) Joseph Stalin
A) 1785 B) 1834 C) 1864 D) 1793
A) 1917 B) 1920–21 C) 1936 D) 1922
A) 2,800 B) 5,500 C) 10,000 to 15,000 D) 3,000 to 10,000
A) 3,000 to 10,000 B) 5,000 to 14,000 C) 2,800 D) 10,000 to 15,000
A) Sheikh Mansur B) Imam Shamil C) Dzhokhar Dudayev D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Dzhokhar Dudayev C) Pavel Grachev D) Vitaliy Kutsenko
A) 72% B) 90.1% C) 50.1% D) 85.5%
A) 1992 B) 1993 C) 1991 D) 1994
A) Ossetia B) Tatarstan C) Ichkeria D) Ingushetia
A) Fled to the countryside B) Declared a state of emergency C) Resigned from office D) Dissolved the parliament
A) FSK B) Russian Ministry of Defense C) Supreme Soviet D) NCChP
A) Vitaliy Kutsenko B) Dzhokhar Dudayev C) Boris Yeltsin D) Pavel Grachev
A) 65% B) 80% C) 90.1% D) 72%
A) Boris Gromov B) Vyacheslav Mikhailov C) Eduard Vorobyov D) Boris Poliakov
A) Boris Gromov B) Eduard Vorobyov C) Lev Rokhlin D) Boris Poliakov
A) The Chechen Civil War B) The Afghan War C) The invasion of Dagestan D) The Battle of Dresden
A) 5th Russian Tank Brigade B) 131st 'Maikop' Motor Rifle Brigade C) 131st Airborne Division D) 800th Infantry Regiment
A) Boris Yeltsin B) Ibn al-Khattab C) Dzhokhar Dudayev D) Sergei Kovalev
A) Foreign volunteers B) Russian soldiers C) Ethnic Russians D) Ethnic Chechens
A) Helmut Kohl B) Boris Yeltsin C) Sergei Kovalev D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) At least 28 B) Exactly 500 C) Nearly 220 D) Over 1,000
A) The Khasavyurt Offensive B) The Grozny Liberation C) The Shatoy Ambush D) Operation Jihad
A) Konstantin Pulikovsky B) Boris Yeltsin C) Alexander Lebed D) Aslan Maskhadov
A) 2001 B) 2000 C) 1998 D) 1997
A) At least 267 B) Nearly 220 C) Over 500 D) Exactly 55
A) Khassan Baiev B) Vyacheslav Izmailov C) Zainap Gashaeva D) Alexander Lebed
A) Up to 300 B) Exactly 500 C) At least 174 D) Nearly 220
A) Russian troops were forced to retreat. B) International observers were present to document the incident. C) At least 55 civilians were killed. D) Chechen fighters successfully repelled the attack.
A) Mintimer Shaimiev B) Boris Yeltsin C) Akhmad Kadyrov D) Ruslan Aushev
A) Sue them for damages B) Declare war on them C) Request international intervention D) Join the Chechen rebels
A) North Ossetia B) Dagestan C) Chuvashia D) Ingushetia
A) Ten B) Two hundred C) None D) Fifty
A) Joined the Chechen independence movement B) Provided aid to Chechen refugees C) Signed a peace treaty D) Organized paramilitary roadblocks
A) A local mayor B) The Health Minister C) The president D) The Chief Mufti
A) Complete withdrawal B) Total annexation of Chechnya C) Permanent military occupation D) Establishment of a Russian puppet government
A) Anna Artemyeva B) Andrew Shumack C) Vyacheslav Izmailov D) Anna Politkovskaya
A) Pravda B) Novaya Gazeta C) Grozny Herald D) The Moscow Times
A) 12 May 1997 B) 30 October 1996 C) January 1997 D) Summer 1999
A) Andrei Kozyrev B) Mikhail Gorbachev C) Vladimir Putin D) Boris Yeltsin
A) Soviet-style heaviness B) Imperialist cowardice C) Lack of strategic planning D) Western-style negligence
A) The public demanded international intervention B) The public broadly supported it C) The public shared the West's disdain D) The public was largely unaware of the war
A) Scientific advancement B) Environmental sustainability C) State identity D) Economic prosperity |