Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was certainly in his element at the UN General Assembly last week, packing a full schedule of meetings and delivering a hard-hitting speech. Admittedly, he had little to say about the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur, the deepening gap between rich and poor nations, or about the uphill struggle against the AIDS pandemic.
Baev, Pavel K. (2004) Moscow Conveniently Forgets Chechnya, Eurasia Daily Monitor. 28 September.
