[Destro]

The following article was written before the Second Chechen war started: Chechnya rebuilds — from Turkey ISTANBUL — A handful of Chechen and "Chechenized" bureaucrats are working against the clock to cement commercial and political ties between the breakaway Russian republic and the rest of the world. What's unusual is that they're doing so here — from a three-story Turkish villa in the wooded heights above the Bosporus.Istanbul has become the de facto, if not de jure, seat of government of Chechnya.

[pkpjamestown]

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,151813,00.html?

[A. Pole]

A handful of Chechen and "Chechenized" bureaucrats are working against the clock to cement commercial and political ties between the breakaway Russian republic and the rest of the world.

What COMMERCIAL ties?! Selling Christian slaves to Saudi Arabia or Sudan?