RFE/RL Security Watch Vol. 1, No. 16, 6 November 2000
FEDERAL, CAPITAL POLICE DISPUTE MOSCOW BLAST. Interior
Ministry investigators believe that the August 2000 bomb
explosion in central Moscow which claimed 12 lives was the
work of criminal gangs seeking to settle accounts with one
another, Interfax reported on 31 October. But the Moscow
city government takes a different view, arguing that the
bombing was the work of Chechens whom Moscow officials seek
to expell from their city. The presidential envoy to the
Central Super District, Viktor Poltavchenko, has retreated
from his earlier demand that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov
abolish the unconstitutional registration requirements for
Moscow residents. Now, Poltavchenko says, the central
government will not oppose even the filtration zones that
Luzhkov's people have used to screen out "unwanted"
residents," polit.ru reported.
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