User:PurpleHaze2022/The Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic
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The Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic (1993-1994) was a Chechen force established in the Nadterentyj District of Chechnya, following the fall of the Soviet Union. The Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic was in stark opposition to the then current President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, President Dzhokhar Dudayev. The Provisional Council emerged out of the Nadterentyj District late in the year of 1993, being established on December 16th, 1993.[1] They were lead by Umar Avturkhanov, a former Soviet Union Ministry of Internal Affairs officer.[2] Constituted of former military groups and criminal organizations. Based in the Nadterentyji District, the military arm of the council was headed by former Grozny mayor, Bislan Gantamirov.[2] As an opposing force to President Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Provisional Council focused entirely on the removal of said President. On the 3rd and 4th of June, 1994, the Provisional Council held a “Congress of the Peoples of Chechnya” where they declared themselves to be the sole legitimate authority of Chechnya.[2] Umar Avturkhanov was chairman of the council until he was succeeded by Ali Alavdinovich Alavdinov as the Provisional Council declared Alavdinov Prime Minister of the newly formed Chechen government.[3] The Provisional Council was dissolved as was their declared new government on the 23rd of November, 1994 at the beginning the First Chechen War.[3]