HARDtalk:
Mikhail
Margelov
On
BBC News 24's HARDtalk tonight (Thursday, 31 October), Tim Sebastian
interviews Mikhail Margelov, Chairman, Russian Parliamentary Foreign
Affairs Committee
The
conclusion of the Chechen hostage drama in Moscow last weekend has
been described as both a military triumph and a disaster, and President
Putin has been severely criticised.
More
than a hundred hostages were killed and inquiries about the nature
of the gas pumped into the theatre where the hostages were being
held were met with confusion and secrecy.
The
whole incident has brought the horrors of the war in Chechnya back
into the headlines, and questions are being asked once again about
the tactics of both the Chechens and the Russian forces.
Mikhail
Margelov, a member of the Russian Parliament's upper house, the
Federation Council, is a Kremlin insider and used to be Russia's
spokesman on Chechnya.
Notes to Editors
HARDtalk
is broadcast on BBC News 24, Monday to Friday at 10.30pm, and is
repeated Tuesday to Saturday at 2.30am.
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