Russian authorities formally warned Kommersant newspaper on Tuesday after it published an interview with a Chechen warlord who has a $10 million price on his head, Interfax news agency reported. After three warnings, the authorities could close the paper. In the interview in the business daily on Monday, Chechen rebel Aslan Maskhadov confirmed an earlier cease-fire order and said Russia should hold peace talks with separatists in the war-torn region, or \"the blood will flow for a long time.\" \"In publishing the interview, the newspaper provided a terrorist wanted by the federal authorities and Interpol with an opportunity to publicly justify terrorism and threaten continued terrorist activity,\" a source in the government\'s media supervisory service told Interfax. He said the action was being brought under a law, which forbids using the media for encouraging or condoning extremism. \"The federal service for supervising observance of the law in the mass media ... issued an official warning to the Kommersant editorial office about the unacceptability of violating the law of the Russian Federation,\" he said. Maskhadov denies he is behind attacks on civilian targets, but Chechnya\'s pro-Moscow leadership rejects that claim and says Maskhadov would have little to put on the table if he could not promise an end to attacks such as last year\'s seizure of a school at Beslan, where more than 330 hostages died. Russia put a $10 million bounty on both Maskhadov and Basayev after the Beslan massacre, prompting the two fugitives to offer $20 million for Putin\'s capture. Kommersant\'s owner, exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky, has infuriated the Kremlin by sniping at Putin with impunity from his London base. In the latest row, Berezovsky was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Chechen rebels had a nuclear bomb, a claim dismissed by Russian officials who said Russia could account for all its nuclear devices. (Reuters)