RETRO-CHECHNYA-DOKU ZAVGAYEV (ZAVGAIEV)

Pro-Russian Chechen leader Doku Zavgayev, surrounded by Russian soldiers, a senator representing Chechnya in the Russia's Federation Council in Moscow, visits in August 1996 Grozny, capital of the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya. Doku, who was chief of the pro-Russian administration of Chechnya from 1995 to 1997, was replaced in December 2000 by his brother Akhmat. Russian troops entered Chechnya 11 December 1994 with the stated aim of introducing constitutional rule in the Caucasus republic. Russian forces fought a brutal war in 1994-1996 to crush separatist rebels in Chechnya that ended in defeat for Moscow and killed 80,000 people. AFP PHOTO ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)