MASKHADOV TO VISIT UNITED STATES.

Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has flown with his family for a short vacation in Turkey. He intends after that to visit the United States to take part in the congress of the Islamic Committee, of which he is the president. Maskhadov visited the United States last year, where he was received by representatives of the American administration as the leader of a subject of the Russian Federation. According to Russian TV, Washington intends to receive Maskhadov in the same manner this time. (ORT, August 2)

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