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Select a section below to browse documents already published. New archival descriptions, original-language files and English translations will be added after source review.

• Presidential Acts — decrees, orders, appointments and presidential statements
• Parliamentary Acts — legislation and parliamentary resolutions
• Negotiated Agreements and Protocols — negotiation records and ceasefire agreements
• Treaties — formal bilateral agreements
• Peace Proposals — diplomatic initiatives and proposed settlements
• Appeals, Letters and Reports — correspondence and documentary publications

Further collections in preparation: Government and Ministries; Judiciary and Legal Codes; Military and Security; Government in Exile; Documentary References (unlocated or disputed acts). Research-only references are not automatically published as authenticated state documents.

1992 — new facsimiles from the contemporary presidential collection

• CHRI-0071 — 26 Aug 1992 · No. 67 · Ministry of Transport — PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0072 — 21 Sep 1992 · No. 69 · Council of Scientists — PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0073 — 4 Oct 1992 · No. 74 · Terek Cossack Commission — PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0074 — 5 Oct 1992 · No. 72 · Independence Fund Vehicles — PDF facsimile

September 1992 — Newly recovered presidential directives

Contemporary 1993 Grozny printed collection. These are scanned copies of the printed text, not authenticated signed originals.

• CHRI-0197 — 16 September 1992: No. 68 — University rector appointments · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0199 — 21 September 1992: No. 78 — Independence Fund premises · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0198 — 27 September 1992: No. 71 — Consultative meeting of religious leaders · PDF facsimile

October–December 1992 — Presidential directives

Photographic extracts from the contemporary 1993 Grozny compilation. The PDF links reproduce the printed source, not independently authenticated signed originals.

• CHRI-0196 — 12 Oct 1992: Directive 73 — International Day for Sovereignty and Independence · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0075 — 14 Oct 1992: Directive 75 — Assistance to Abkhazia volunteers’ families · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0076 — 5 Nov 1992: Directive 77 — Kindergarten building for a lyceum · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0195 — 5 Nov 1992: Directive 79 — Vocational school inventory · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0077 — 22 Nov 1992: Directive 81 — Caucasus environmental initiative · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0194 — 26 Nov 1992: Directive 76 — Gudermes administrative premises · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0078 — 22 Dec 1992: Directive 92 — Institute of Forensic Examinations · PDF facsimile

May 1993 — Presidential decrees and the constitutional crisis

Facsimiles of decrees 45–47 of 28 May 1993, taken from the Ministry of Justice’s contemporary printed collection (Book II, Grozny, 1994). Their publication documents the measures announced by the Presidency; it does not certify the legality of those measures or the subsequent implementation.

• CHRI-0086 — 28 May 1993: No. 45 — Dissolution of the Constitutional Court · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0200 — 28 May 1993: No. 46 — Citizenship of former Soviet and Russian deputies · PDF facsimile
• CHRI-0201 — 28 May 1993: No. 47 — Suspension of constitutional provisions · PDF facsimile

Selected catalogue records and PDFs

• CHRI-0008 — 30 October 1991 — Presidential Press Service — PDF
• CHRI-0021 — 16 December 1991 — Archival Administration — PDF
• CHRI-0024 — 23 December 1991 — Official Travel Abroad — PDF
• CHRI-0028 — 26 December 1991 — Presidential Office Funding — PDF
• CHRI-0031 — 12 January 1992 — Transfers to Former Soviet Ministries — PDF
• CHRI-0033 — 27 January 1992 — Legal Reform Committee and Courts — PDF
• CHRI-0034 — 27 January 1992 — Funding of the Prosecutor’s Office — PDF
• CHRI-0035 — 29 January 1992 — Russian Federal Budget Payments — PDF
• CHRI-0122 — 13 February 1997 — Law on the Lustration of Citizens — PDF
• CHRI-0193 — 1999 (date to verify) — Maskhadov Letter to International Institutions — PDF
• CHRI-0172 — 2 December 2003 — Parliamentary Resolution 14-11 on Foreign Relations — PDF
• CHRI-0109 — 30 July 1995 — Russian–Chechen Military Agreement — PDF
• 12 May 1997 — Russian–Chechen Peace Treaty (PDF)
• CHRI-0045 — 20 February 1992 — Files of the Privatization Committee — PDF
• CHRI-0046 — 1 March 1992 — Protection of Civil Defence Assets — PDF
• CHRI-0048 — 5 March 1992 — District and City Courts — PDF
• CHRI-0049 — 12 March 1992 — Territorial Civil Defence — PDF
• CHRI-0052 — 24 March 1992 — Medical Services for Law Enforcement Personnel — PDF

Editorial policy: a downloadable file is not by itself proof that the surviving copy is an original. Each future document record will state the issuing authority, date, source, available language(s), degree of textual verification and any dispute about attribution.