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Article: RUSSIA: MODERATE NATIONALIST TATAR GROUP RAISES THE SPECTER OF CHECHNYA.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- February 13, 2003
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On the next day, Rafis Kashapov, head of the Tatar Public Center's Nabarezhnye Chelny branch, was quoted by REN-TV as saying that "if this pressure on Tatarstan and the republics of the Volga region continues, it will lead to -- I would say -- extreme measures." When asked what he meant by extreme measures, Kashapov said, "Well, look at what happened in Chechnya...." According to REN-TV, a book called "The Jihad of the Tatar People" was on sale at the plenum for ...