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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 205, Part I, 23 October 2000

RUSSIAN MILITARY TO CHANGE TACTICS IN CHECHNYA. Russian military spokesmen
in Chechnya told Interfax on 21 October that they will increase the number
of checkpoints in lowland regions of Chechnya in anticipation that Chechen
fighters will descend from the southern mountains to spend the coming
winter in the plains. They said that at present Chechen forces are
concentrated at three mountain locations in Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt, and
Kurchaloi. On 20 October, Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembskii
had said in a live radio interview that the Russian forces' primary
objective is to locate and wipe out Chechen field commanders, according to
ITAR-TASS. During that interview, Yastrzhembskii also criticized the work
of the pro-Moscow interim Chechen administration, arguing that a new
Moscow-based federal body is needed to supervise economic restoration in
Chechnya. LF

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