GENOCIDE, GET THEE BEHIND ME:

Russia’s acting president is “refreshingly open,” said British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook after meeting Putin in Moscow. And in Chechnya he is refreshingly victorious. “Any tougher remarks [on Chechnya] are unlikely to be required,” Cook told the press, because Moscow has already heard what the West has to say. “It is no less important for us to maintain good relations with Russia. That will enable us to work fruitfully on a whole series of other issues that are very important….”