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All-National Congress of the Chechen People
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The All-National Congress of the Chechen People (NCChP) of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria came to power on November 1, 1991 under president Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former commander of the Soviet air force base in Tartu, Estonia. Since its formation, the organization advocated sovereignty for Chechnya as a separate republic within the Soviet Union.
On September 6, 1991, the NCChP National Guard, headed by Dudayev, stormed a session of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR Supreme Soviet, killing the Soviet Communist Party chief for Grozny, Vitali Kutsenko, severely injuring several other Soviet members, and effectively dissolving the government of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. Although Russia had initially supported Dudayev, these actions made them shift away from him. Between 1992 and 1994 and again from 1996 until 1999 Chechnya was de facto an independent state.
Dudayev’s government failed, however, to create viable political and economic structures and to secure the well being of its people. The would-be new state became dominated by semi-independent warlords and various Chechen mafia criminal groupings.