RUSSIANS REMAIN DIVIDED ON CHECHEN ACCORDS.

Russian commentaryon the agreement with the Chechens remained as divided as theChechens appear to be. Military observer Pavel Felgengauer wrotein Segodnya August 1 that the agreement was simply a "face-saving"measure to allow the Chechens to capitulate. Moscow, he said,had given away nothing politically in order to gain complete supremacymilitarily. But Yuliya Kalinina in Moskovsky komsomolets thesame day argued that to all intents and purposes, the agreementhad been a "Chechen victory," one that Moscow had allowedout of a desire "to buy time till the December electionsto the Duma" but one that would not stick and thus wouldforce Moscow to make more concessions later.