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Thursday, 09 September 2004
NOTED JOURNALIST BLASTS EUROPEANS WHO QUESTION RUSSIA\'S CHECHEN POLICY
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.
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.\" Whether their behavior is good or bad, \"Russian soldiers in the Caucasus are defending the values of Christian civilization and the Euro-Atlantic world, including the freedom and security of Europe,\" Tretyakov concluded. (RFE/RL)