By empty (7/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia is appalled by ABC News channel broadcasting an interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. \"A recording of the interview with Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev being broadcast in the USA by one of the most popular national channels with as extensive an audience as ABC News draws our bewilderment and indignation,\" says a release by the Russian Foreign Ministry\'s information department published at the ministry\'s web-site on Friday. \"Airtime was given to one of the most notorious Chechen militants, who has stained himself with numerous terrorist attacks, including those at the Dubrovka Theater Center and in Beslan, in which hundreds of civilians died, including children,\" the release said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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