14 August 2000 Russian leaders don't mince words. The press, both local and international, barely turn their heads when officials refer to all Chechens as bandits, call for ethnic-cleansing campaigns, or on national television blame financial crises on Jews. Statements such as those have been commonplace and any astonishment over official insolence is long gone. […]

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