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same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kremlin's conduct of the war in Chechnya. Putin moved quickly to change these conditions. He reorganized and exerted tighter political con- trol over state-owned television stations, broug
d legislation that placed the country's government-supported interna- tional media outlets—Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and their sister services focused on Asia and other regions—under more direct presidential control, on the theory that a commander-in-chief who
llows a long string of assassinations and attacks on Chechen exiles in Europe, Turkey and the Middle East since 2004, when a former acting leader of Chechnya, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, was assassinated in a car bomb attack in Doha, the capital of Qatar." Radio Free Europe (7/6, 9K) reports Austrian police a
center in the Vienna suburb of Gerasdorf." Two men have been "detained in connection with the killing." Sources in the Chechen diaspora "have told RFE/RL that the man killed was Mamikhan Umarov, a former Chechen separatist and critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov." The Austrian regional intelligenc
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he same hymnal, and most influential outlets reflected a variety of opinions about government policies, including the Kremlin's conduct of the war in Chechnya. Putin moved quickly to change these conditions. He reorganized and exerted tighter political con- trol over state-owned television stations, brough
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019250 →sed legislation that placed the country’s government-supported interna- tional media outlets—Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and their sister services focused on Asia and other regions—under more direct presidential control, on the theory that a commander-in-chief who was
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