LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that he would raise the issue of human rights abuses in Chechnya in an upcoming meeting with President Vladimir Putin, but said he also supported Moscow's efforts to fight terrorism. "I always raise the issue of Chechnya with President Putin, but I do so in a way that also recognizes this point -- that as a result of terrorism coming out from extremists based in Chechnya, the Russian people have also suffered a very great deal," Blair said in the House of Commons. Conservative Party lawmaker Crispin Blunt pressed Blair on the...
