KOVALEV REJECTS CHECHEN AWARD.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 30

Human rights activist Sergei Kovalev told Russian radio June 9 that he had refused to accept an award from Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev. Reports that he had been given the award sparked widespread criticism in Moscow, Komsomolskaya pravda reported June 8.

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