GROZNY. Sept 22 (Interfax) - The Chechen armed separatist movement is routed completely, and the so-called Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion, a separatist suicide attack group, has been destroyed, a Chechen deputy prime minister who is in charge of the republic's security and law enforcement agencies has claimed.
"Reports disseminated by individual media outlets that the Riyadus- Salikhin terrorist group is in Chechnya are so much propaganda and are designed to produce a semblance that the terrorists here have some power," First Deputy Prime Minister Adam Demilkhanov said.
"Everyone is perfectly aware that [warlord Shamil] Basayev's groups that styled themselves the Riyadus-Salikhin Brigade have been completely destroyed, but, despite this, time and again, lies get disseminated that that terrorist organization still exists, lies that are invented by their foreign sponsors," Demilkhanov said.
"Media reports that some group called Riyadus-Salikhin has claimed responsibility for bombing the Neva Express primarily pursue the aim of discrediting the Chechen people and stir an atmosphere of mistrust of Chechens in the country," he said.
Neva Express was a train that was derailed on the Moscow-St. Petersburg railway several weeks ago after tracks were blown up.
"Thereby scattered remnants of bandit groups are trying to look as an organized force in the eyes of their sponsors and to persuade them to provide more financing," Demilkhanov said.
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