Putin blamed for gagging Chechen By Lawrence Smallman Wednesday 02 June 2004, 15:04 Makka Time, 12:04 GMT The widow of assassinated ex-Chechen president Salim Khan Yandarbiyev has spoken out after a Russian TV channel killed an interview with her and sacked the reporter. Leonid Parfyonov, one of the few Russian journalists prepared to criticise President Vladimir Putin's government, was fired by NTV on Tuesday after condemning the company's decision not to air an interview with Malika Yandarbiyev. Salim Khan Yandarbiyev was president of Chechnya for a brief period after it won de-facto independence from Russia in 1996, later losing out...