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Monday, 13 September 2004
MOSCOW WANTS VILNIUS TO CLOSE CHECHEN SEPARATIST WEBSITE IN LITHUANIA
By empty (9/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Moscow has demanded that the Lithuanian authorities take steps to close Chechen separatists\' Kavkaz- Center website which operates in Lithuania. \"Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Rimantas Sidlauskas was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on September 13, where he was told that Russia insistently demands that the activities of Chechen separatists\' Kavkaz-Center website in Lithuania be stopped,\" says a Russian Foreign Ministry press release issued on Monday. \"Any lack of action in the face of the website\'s continuing functioning on Lithuania\'s server will be viewed by Moscow as an overtly unfriendly step on the part of the Lithuanian authorities, which has a negative influence on the atmosphere of our bilateral relations,\" the release says.
Moscow has demanded that the Lithuanian authorities take steps to close Chechen separatists\' Kavkaz- Center website which operates in Lithuania. \"Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Rimantas Sidlauskas was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on September 13, where he was told that Russia insistently demands that the activities of Chechen separatists\' Kavkaz-Center website in Lithuania be stopped,\" says a Russian Foreign Ministry press release issued on Monday. \"Any lack of action in the face of the website\'s continuing functioning on Lithuania\'s server will be viewed by Moscow as an overtly unfriendly step on the part of the Lithuanian authorities, which has a negative influence on the atmosphere of our bilateral relations,\" the release says. (Interfax)