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. Everyone’s used to it, and […]
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