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Doku Zavgaev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (253 words) |
 | Doku Zavgaev (Zavgayev) is the former Soviet leader of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. |
| In 1989, Zavgaev, a former collective farm manager and senior Soviet Communist Party official, was appointed as the first Chechen First Secretary of the autonomous republic since the Chechens' return in 1957. |
| By the spring of 1994 Zavgaev managed to convince both the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin and the heads of the "force ministries" that the Russian Federation should actively intervene in Chechnya, where he became appointed pro-Moscow head of state on October 24, 1995. |
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