By empty (9/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a commentary published in \"Rossiiskaya gazeta\" on 8 September, \"Nezavisimaya gazeta\" founder Vitalii Tretyakov accused Europeans who have questioned Russia\'s Chechen policy of having \"double standards.\" \"The European human rights advocates have become so keen on protecting the rights of the killers that they think less and less about the rights of their victims,\" Tretyakov wrote. \"If somebody in Europe is thinking that the Russian soldiers in Chechnya are defending the imperial ambitions of Russia or the popularity of its president, such thinking cannot be called anything other than intellectual idiocy.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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