MOSKVA: Russia announced Tuesday that it was barring journalists from ABC News from working here, effectively expelling a foreign news organization for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The decision underscored not only Russia’s sensitivity to foreign perceptions of the war in Chechnya, but also a seething and evidently growing antipathy toward the United States and other countries viewed as hostile to Russia.

Det er intervjuet med den tsjetsjenske geriljalederen Sjamil Basajev, som er foranledningen.