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Friday, 05 November 2004
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONDEMNS INTERVIEW WITH CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDER
By empty (11/5/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Foreign Ministry has addressed an official protest to the Moscow bureau of Canada\'s \"Globe and Mail\" following the publication by that paper on 3 November of an extensive interview with radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev. The protest warned the head of the paper\'s Moscow bureau, who commissioned the interview, that it is unacceptable to grant publicity to \"murderers and terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of the Russian people, including the children of Beslan.\" (RFE/RL).
The Foreign Ministry has addressed an official protest to the Moscow bureau of Canada\'s \"Globe and Mail\" following the publication by that paper on 3 November of an extensive interview with radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev. The protest warned the head of the paper\'s Moscow bureau, who commissioned the interview, that it is unacceptable to grant publicity to \"murderers and terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of the Russian people, including the children of Beslan.\" (RFE/RL)