By empty (2/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Acting Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has accused controversial businessman Boris Berezovsky of financing Chechen separatists in the 1990s. \"Berezovsky repeatedly met with warlords and offered a financing scheme to them. Berezovsky said to the militant leaders, \'I can\'t give you money directly, and therefore I suggest that you kidnap Russian civilians and servicemen in Chechnya, then I will pay you millions of dollars under in ransoms for them\',\" Kadyrov said meeting with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Tuesday.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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