[A. Pole]

Kadyrov [...] stating that, "Denmark has always supported terrorists . . . In any case, these [NGOs] have never cooperated with the authorities. They collected information. They were like spies. We had very little use for them."

Same was in Kosovo.

[Mike Darancette]

The Russian president cozies up to Muslims abroad

How long till this pandering to Muslims by Putin leads to the Chechnyians force Russia to slap them down again?

[mdefranc]

"Putin's strategy, evidently, is to repress ordinary Muslims at home while pandering to Islamist extremists abroad." - Weekly Standard

And why would this be? Because under Bush-Rice, there are utterly no consequences for Russian suppression of its own democracy and Russian backing of the Islamo-Fascists.

[OldFriend]

Evidently Beslan was just a nighmare that never really happened.

Terrorists are the friends of the Russian people, yes?

NYET!!!

[indcons]

Putin and the ChiComs are doing the same thing. Pandering to muslims abroad, that is.

[SunkenCiv]

Unfortunately, absent from the agenda will be any discussion of the domestic factors that lie at the root of Russia's recent foreign policy maneuvers: namely, Putin's growing accommodation of terror at the expense of Russian democracy and the safety of its own citizens. A week before the Hamas delegation's visit to the Russian capital, the Russian authorities closed two regional newspapers--Gorodskie Vesti in Volgograd and Nash Region in Vologda--for printing the Danish Mohammad cartoons.

Not to mention Putin's revival of state control of industry, elimination of significant amounts of private property, destruction of the capital of Chechnya, sale of modern fighter jets to Venezuela, opposition to the liberation of Iraq...