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...Dzasokhov told TIME: "A very high-ranking general from the Interior Ministry said, 'I have received orders to arrest you if you try to go.'" Meanwhile, Putin--who has long refused to negotiate with Chechen separatists--apparently sanctioned an effort to enlist an intermediary to help resolve the crisis: Aslan Maskhadov, the deposed successionist President of Chechnya. Dzasokhov told TIME that he talked to Maskhadov's London-based representative Akhmed Zakayev, and asked them to intervene. Zakayev, who says Maskhadov was "horrified at this atrocity," pledged cooperation and asked for guarantees of Maskhadov's safety when he came to Beslan...
...Meanwhile, Putin's government and its Chechen opponents have begun a strange bidding war. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) offered a reward of US $10.3 million to anyone who could help them capture Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his field commander Shamil Basaev, believed to be one of the architects of last week's school siege. A few hours later, Maskhadov's government-in-exile upped the ante by posting a US $20m reward for the capture of "the war criminal" Putin...
...foremost, a nationalist struggle to secede from Russia, and the rise of a more extremist and Islamist element within that insurgency is, in part, an effect of the often indiscriminate brutality of the Russian crackdown, and Moscow's rejection of any political dialogue with the secular-nationalist leadership under Aslan Mashkadov, whom Moscow had previously recognized as the president of Chechnya...
...strategy for pacifying Chechnya looked pretty horrible too. But Kadyrov's murder gives Putin a choice: he can launch yet another crackdown or finally try a new approach. Judging from his comments last week, he's not sure which way to go. Kadyrov, who fought alongside rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov before shifting his allegiance to the Russians in 1999, came to power last October in an election the human-rights organization Moscow Helsinki Group described as "fraudulent." His installation was crucial to Putin's "Chechenization" policy; Kadyrov would take the pressure off Russian troops by using his private army, known...
...late Wednesday night the news was spreading fast: another aging autocrat was on his way out in a former Soviet satellite. Late last year it was Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia. This time, it was Aslan Abashidze, for the past 13 years the authoritarian boss of Ajaria; an autonomous republic in Georgia's southwest corner. "It's over," said Givi Targamadze, chairman of Georgia's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security. "The only thing that remains to be seen is who will come from Moscow to take Mr. Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security...