CHECHNYA AND YAVLINSKY…

Russia’s leading democrat, Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky, says that “Russian fascists, nationalists, terrorists and, one can say, Muscovite political marauders” feed the war hysteria because they stand to benefit from prolonged disorder. They seek to stir up ethnic hatred, Yavlinsky told a television interviewer, and share a “strategic goal” of making Russia an enemy of Islam.