http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5203493
Oliver Bullough
"Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the West not to meddle with Russia's Chechnya policy in the wake of the
bloody hostage crisis, highlighting a growing rift over the issue between former Cold War foes.
He said, in a reference to British and U.S. offers of asylum to spokesmen for Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, that the West was
directly interfering in an internal issue.
'When our Western partners say we should re-examine our policy, what you call our tactics, I would advise them not to interfere in our
Russian internal affairs,' he told reporters on Thursday.
'Some try to interfere by offering political asylum to terrorists who are directly linked to the Chechen tragedy.'"
