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REGIONAL OPERATIONAL HQ REFUTES CHECHEN SEPARATIST LEADERS' STATEMENTS

RIA Novosti

GROZNY, February 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Regional Operational HQ for the Anti-Terror Operation in the North Caucasus have refuted allegations by Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev posted on the internet sites of Chechen separatists.
"All references to the leaders of Chechen terrorist groups are false, the statements were written by Movladi Udugov, chief ideologist of Chechen separatists and their accessories," the HQ's message reads.
The Kavkaz-Center and Chechenpress internet sites carried allegations earlier that Maskhadov and Basayev had ordered cease-fire in Chechnya and the rest of Russia's territory until February 22 as an act of good will.
Officials at the Regional Operational HQ are sure that "such internet resources are used to wage informational war against Russia".
"Any kind of information about Basayev and Maskhadov is placed on these sites to popularize them and induce other mass media to circulate false ideas about extremist leaders' activity," the HQ's statement points out.
In this connection the Regional Operational HQ refuses to comment on materials periodically placed on the separatists' sites.
In its statement the HQ refers to the law On Combat against Terrorism and calls on mass media "not to believe ideologists of international terrorist organizations, who seek to spread the propaganda of terrorism and extremism".