Television commentator Mikhail Leontev said on 26 September that he supports President Putin\'s statement that outside forces are using international terrorism to promote the disintegration of Russia. \"There are such influential forces in the United States and Europe,\"said Leontev, speaking on Vladimir Pozner\'s prime-time ORT program, in an installment devoted to international terrorism. Duma Deputy Dmitrii Rogozin (Motherland); the chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, Geidar Dzhamal; and head of the Political and Religious Researchers Center, Maksim Shevchenko, agreed with Leontev. Effective Politics Foundation President Gleb Pavlovskii, said \"it is ridiculous to expect that the West will care about our territorial integrity more than our own politicians, who twice agreed to alienate our territory -- in 1991 during the disintegration of USSR and in 1996 during Khasavyurt, the accord with Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.\" \"We still have legally functioning political parties whose leaders are calling for talks with Maskhadov and the leaders of terrorists,\" Pavlovskii continued. \"As far as the West is concerned, what more can we expect from it, if it continues to call our mortal enemies \'separatists.\'\" (RFE/RL)