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===Moscow peace treaty=== [[File:Grozny2.jpg|thumb|Street of the ruined capital Grozny after war.]] The [[Khasavyurt Accord]] paved the way for the signing of two further agreements between Russia and Chechnya. In mid-November 1996, Yeltsin and Maskhadov signed an agreement on economic relations and [[Reparation (legal)|reparations]] to Chechens who had been affected by the 1994β96 war. In February 1997, Russia also approved an [[amnesty]] for Russian soldiers and Chechen fighters alike who committed illegal acts in connection with the War in Chechnya between December 1994 and September 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/showthread.php?t=1965|title=Account Suspended|website=worldaffairsboard.com|date=7 May 2004|access-date=14 November 2008|archive-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206093506/http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/showthread.php?t=1965|url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:Interwar Crisis in Chechnya 1997-1999.png|thumb|Situation in Chechnya in the period between the end of the First Chechen War and the beginning of the Second Chechen War: In red the territory under the control of the [[Russian Federation]] in green the territory under the control of the [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] and in grey the areas under the control of the [[islamists]]{{cn|date=August 2024}}.]] Six months after the Khasavyurt Accord, on 12 May 1997, Chechen-elected president Aslan Maskhadov traveled to Moscow where he and Yeltsin signed a formal treaty "on peace and the principles of Russian-Chechen relations" that Maskhadov predicted would demolish "any basis to create ill-feelings between Moscow and Grozny."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1997/05/970512I.html(opt,mozilla,unix,english,,new)|title=F&P RFE/RL Archive|website=friends-partners.org|access-date=2006-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206093451/http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1997/05/970512I.html(opt,mozilla,unix,english,,new)|archive-date=2017-12-06}}</ref> Maskhadov's optimism, however, proved misplaced. Little more than two years later, some of Maskhadov's former comrades-in-arms, led by field commanders [[Shamil Basayev]] and [[Ibn al-Khattab]], launched an [[Invasion of Dagestan (1999)|invasion of Dagestan]] in the summer of 1999 β and soon Russia's forces entered Chechnya again, marking the beginning of the [[Second Chechen War]].
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