By empty (9/17/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said the latest terrorist attacks in Russia are directly linked to the ongoing conflict in Chechnya, which can be resolved exclusively by political means. \"Politics, rather than force, is a major means for defeating terrorism. But unlike the president, I think that the terrorist attacks of the past few weeks are directly linked to the military actions in the Caucasus,\" Gorbachev said in his article published in the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper on Friday.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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