Russia declares end to 10-year anti-terror `` operation '' in Chechnya . The late president Boris Yeltsin ordered the counter-terrorist operation in 1999 . The Russian government has declared the end of a 10-year-long campaign against Chechen separatists and their supporters that began with an armed uprising in 1999. Former president Boris Yeltsin ordered the counter-terrorist operation in 1999 .
Russia declares end to 10-year anti-terror `` operation '' in Chechnya . The Russian government has declared the end of a 10-year-long campaign against Chechen separatists and their supporters that began with an armed uprising in 1999. Former president Boris Yeltsin ordered the counter-terrorist operation in 1999 .