TATARSTAN PRESIDENT DENOUNCES SHUMEIKO’S REMARKS.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 54

Tatarstanpresident Mintimer Shaimiyev sharply criticized Federation Councilspeaker Vladimir Shumeiko’s suggestion that Moscow should nothave anything more to do with Abkhaz leader Vladislav Ardzinba,Interfax reported July 15. Such an approach makes it more difficultto solve any problem because in all such conflicts–includingthe Chechen-Russian one–"it is never the case that onlyone party is to blame."

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