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Russia Bars ABC, Citing Interview With Chechen Rebel

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. Russia’s step came in retaliation for ABC’s broadcast of an interview with Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel leader who has ordered or carried out some of the worst terrorist acts in the country’s history, including the school siege in Beslan (Terrorist Incident) last September that left 330 people dead. Full Story