Monday, Oct. 7, 2002. Page 1 Radio Liberty Stripped Of Status By Andrei Zolotov Jr. Staff Writer Radio Liberty, which has irritated President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin with its coverage of Chechnya, has been stripped of the special legal status it had enjoyed since 1991.In a decree released Friday, Putin revoked a decree issued by President Boris Yeltsin during the democratic euphoria of August 1991 that granted Radio Liberty, a U.S.-funded Russian-language radio station, the right to open its Moscow bureau and gave Radio Liberty reporters the freedom to work unhindered throughout Russia.Radio Liberty said the decision would have no immediate...