By empty (11/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The detention of the compensation payment committee\'s secretary Sultan Isakov is politically motivated and aimed at undermining the reputation of the Chechen authorities, the republic\'s Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told a meeting with senior officers of law enforcement services on Friday. \"My impression is that this detention came as a kind of political action aimed at discrediting the republic\'s authorities. The situation with Isakov\'s detention is a political order.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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