KOVALEV CALLS FOR RUSSIAN APOLOGIES TO CHECHENS, BALTS.

At another breakfast in Moscow May 11, Russian human rights leader Sergei Kovalev told the crowd that Russians “must make our apologies to the Balts as well as–I am convinced–to the Chechens” if Russia is to live in peace. Kovalev said that Russians are still too inclined to blame others for problems they have created themselves, BNS reported May 11.

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