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Russers tell Maskhadov envoy to fuggeddaboudit...
Russian officials who have repeatedly refused to negotiate with Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - calling him a terrorist - said Friday they also will not work with his newly appointed emissary. On Thursday, Maskhadov named ethnic Chechen politician Salambek Maigov to represent him in peace talks with Russian authorities in the war-shattered republic. Guess Zakayev was too busy, huh? But President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman on Chechnya said that makes no difference. "Maskhadov has lost the ability to appoint anyone because right now he does not represent anyone but himself," the Interfax news agency quoted Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying. "You can't represent what doesn't exist. You can't represent a soap bubble." That's quaint Russian phrasing for "piss off, Aslan." Is much fonnier in Russian, ho ho! Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-15 |
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