By empty (10/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov\'s order to shoot anyone wearing a mask in Chechnya is \"a legally flawed decision,\" said a highly-placed source in the Russian Interior Ministry. \"This subjective decision and its consequences should have been carefully calculated from the legal point of view,\" the source told Interfax on Tuesday. \"Masks are part of riot policemen\'s uniform,\" he added.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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