The Man with the Iron Fist Tightens His Grip On Russia
Scotland on Sunday › September 13, 2004
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FOR many Russians it was a week of funerals, mourning and horrified disbelief. The reaction of Vladimir Putin to the deaths in Beslan, however, has been rather different: to go on the offensive.
The Russian president ordered his country's Federal Security Service to offer an unprecedented reward of 300 million rubles (GBP 5.7m) for information that could help "neutralise" Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord said to have masterminded the school hostage siege in which more than 300 people died, and of separatist former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov.See the full content of this document
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The Man with the Iron Fist Tightens His Grip On Russia
In words which echoed those of President George Bush after the September 11 attacks, Russia's chief of general staff, Col-Gen Yuri Baluyevsky, also weighed in by declaring: "We will liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world."
On the international propaganda front, Britain was blasted for granting refugee status to Akhmed Zakayev, an envoy for Maskadov."Granting asylum to people involved in terrorism - and Russia has documented evidence of t...See the full content of this document
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