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MASKHADOV SAYS KREMLIN HAS STEPPED AGAIN ON KHASAVYURT RAKE…
The no. 46 issue of Moskovskie novosti features the text of a new, lengthy interview with Aslan Maskhadov, the president of Chechnya. A correspondent for the weekly had, through intermediaries, submitted a series of questions to Maskhadov, and the Chechen president had then sent back... MORE
…MAINTAINS THAT ONLY NEGOTIATIONS WILL END THE STRUGGLE…
In his Moskovskie novosti interview, Maskhadov repeated his oft-stated view that the present conflict had been carefully prepared, over a three-year period, by the Kremlin. The autumn 1999 bombings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buinaksk, which sparked the Russian invasion of Chechnya, were in fact set... MORE
…PUTIN INDICATES CONFLICT WILL CONTINUE.
Replying on November 21 to Maskhadov's comments in Moskovskie novosti, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Russian president's principal spokesman on Chechnya, maintained that in principle "he saw nothing new" in Maskhadov's statements (Russian agencies, November 21). Maskhadov, he said, had already missed his chance to exhibit "maturity... MORE