October 25, 2010
THERE IS NO RUSSIA:
Top Kremlin ideologue visits Chechnya as violence mounts (Agence France-Presse, 10/25/10)
Russian authorities are battling a Muslim insurgency in the North Caucasus where attacks on officials have become daily occurrences as security analysts say the Kremlin is losing its grip over the region.Surkov, the Kremlin's first deputy chief of staff, said on Friday during a visit to Chechnya, site of two wars with separatists in the 90s, that the country's political leadership would never agree to let the Caucasus become independent.
"The Caucasus is the foundation on which the whole of Russia stands," Surkov told youth activists in comments released by the Chechen government.
As America was the foundation of Britain....
