RUSSIA: TATAR PRESIDENT SAYS MOSCOW SHOULD CONTACT MASKHADOV WHILE KOSHMAN ARGUES AGAINST SUCH TALKS...(Aslan Maskhadov, Nikolai Koshman)(Brief Article) Posted: Apr 11, 2008 13:30:40
... government representative to Chechnya Nikolai Koshman told Interfax in Moscow on 20 ... Chechen chief of presidential staff Apti Batalov, whom the Federal Security Service apprehended ... intermediary between Maskhadov and Moscow. Batalov is said to be resolutely opposed to the ...
