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Monday, 21 March 2005
MOSCOW FURIOUS OVER WARSAW\'S PLAN TO HONOR FIRST CHECHEN PRESIDENT
By empty (3/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Foreign Ministry on 21 March expressed \"outrage\" at a proposal by the Warsaw City Council to name a city street after Dzhokar Dudaev, the first president of the Chechen Republic, who was killed by federal forces in 1996, Russian and international media reported. \"It is difficult to see this decision as anything but an assault on the memory of Russia victims of terrorist attacks in Moscow and other cities and as support for international terrorism,\" the ministry\'s statement said, according to . The ministry\'s statement called Dudaev a \"leader of nationalist extremists\" and said Warsaw\'s action could harm bilateral relations.
The Foreign Ministry on 21 March expressed \"outrage\" at a proposal by the Warsaw City Council to name a city street after Dzhokar Dudaev, the first president of the Chechen Republic, who was killed by federal forces in 1996, Russian and international media reported. \"It is difficult to see this decision as anything but an assault on the memory of Russia victims of terrorist attacks in Moscow and other cities and as support for international terrorism,\" the ministry\'s statement said, according to . The ministry\'s statement called Dudaev a \"leader of nationalist extremists\" and said Warsaw\'s action could harm bilateral relations. (RosBalt)