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...matter from becoming an international concern. "Russian foreign policy recognizes the U.N. as the final arbiter of international justice, and a U.N. mission to assess the needs of refugees that makes it harder for Moscow to control the way the conflict is presented internationally," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Because Chechnya is its sovereign territory, Moscow insists that there are no refugees in Chechnya, only internally displaced people...
...European Union, which had been scheduled to discuss economic assistance. And now Washington is stepping up its criticism, urging Russia to solve its conflict with Chechnya through dialogue. "Chechnya threatens to displace Russia's preferred concerns at the top of the agenda in its dealings with the West," says Meier. Even more alarming for the Kremlin is the fact that Washington is casting the conflict in terms quite different from Russia's. While Moscow describes it simply as a "police action against terrorism," President Clinton Thursday referred to Chechnya as instance of ethnic conflict and urged Russia to seek...
...killed thousands of Chechens, both fighters and civilians - in a vain attempt to take control of the capital. The latest battle may be as grim. "Some Russian leaders seem to believe that anyone who hasn?t fled Chechnya by now is fair game," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "A former prime minister said Sunday that eliminating bandits and terrorists in Chechnya may require wiping out half of the population...
...Russian field commander Tuesday offered a $1 million bounty on the head of the Islamic separatist guerrilla commander Shamil Basayev, but that may be simply posturing. "Correspondents manage to interview Basayev without much trouble, and he?s not exactly hiding out," says Meier. "It would require a stretch of the imagination to believe that the Russian special forces don?t know where he is." Even more bizarre, perhaps, is the mounting speculation that President Boris Yeltsin is unhappy with the spectacular rise in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?s popularity prompted by the Chechnya operation. "Even though the Kremlin?s game...
Despite Moscow?s best efforts to avoid repeating its 1994-96 debacle in Chechnya, its campaign appears to lack coordination and coherence. "This has disaster written all over it," says Meier. "It?s the wrong time of year to be getting drawn into an offensive, and Moscow has rebuffed attempts at negotiation by Chechen president Mashkadov, who remains the territory?s most credible moderate leader. It looks as if there?s very little coordination among Russia?s political leaders and its generals, and there?s no long-term strategy evident." To be sure, analysts agree that a battle for Grozny...