Dear Mr Putin..The next time someone shoves a collecting tin in my face for the liberation of Chechneya I must remember to stick a £5.00 note in to help this worthy cause. Here's hoping you don't have a sleepless night over your decisions...Simon

IF he can not see hamas and hizbullah actions wrong than he is no different.which makes him a terrorist!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The west needs to invite Chechen rebels for diplomatic resolutions and at the same time help them build nuclear reactors. Maybe unload some army surplus for a quick buck. That may help the Russians to see the light.

And kill all the rusky occupiers you can in the process

The US should respond appropriately: remove all Chechen terrorist groups and other groups fighting Russia from our official terrorist lists. Use Russia's own logic: since they don't pose a threat to any US interests, they are not terrorists.

I agree bring our Ambassador home

Russia is heading back into safe territory, as patron of the Arab world - or trying to, anyway. Those who call for "honest brokers" can see that Russia is frankly honest in its desire to see democracy spread around the world, and in that case groups like Hamas and Hizballah, and countries like Syria and Iran - where Russia is helping to build nuclear facilities - are perfect allies for Moscow. Why should America be balanced, when Russia can negotiate on behalf, or with, the Muslim-Arab world? Honest brokers on both sides - a newly authoritarian Russia on one, democratic America on the other. Russia's not putting the two terror groups on their list reveals the hollowness with which Putin claims that the fight in Chechnya - and Russian atrocities there - are part of the global war on terror. As "Islamized" as the conflict has become there, if Hamas and Hizballah aren't seen to pose a threat to the Russian Federation, it is because it really is a localized, not a globalized, Islamist threat. By the way, let's not forget that Russia used Muslim religious leaders to keep calm in areas held by the Russian Empire, and Putin is cultivating similar relationships with Russianb Muslim imams today.

What's the difference between the Chechnyan terrorists and hamas and Hizbollah? Putin is a mean person. He said he would hunt the terrorists down whenever they hid? and now he backs terrorists. Which makes the Chechnyan terrorists terrorists? Is it that they murder Russians? And why isnt murdering Israelis terrorism?

To: No. 4 What a completely crass comment you've made. You imbecile.

russia is playing a double game with us, in spite of the big native russian in israel is always taking care of arabs..... Israel should not help russia anymore in their fight against terror, let them on their own. Sam thing for spain, france, sweden, norway, greece, etc etc....Israel should act on his own... and do whatever there is to do to save the coutry from the barbarians..... NEVER AGAIN.AM ISRAEL HAI

by the way, israel should support the tchetchen , and ask 4 a resolution in the UN concerning the disproportionate action taken by russia crushing grozny and all tchtchenya. How come this idiot putine don't understand that s once iran would finish with israel , then occident then it will be is turn. All the muslim in ex soviet union should fight for jihad

When Putin / Russia is behind Syria and Iran, who is behind Hamas and Hizbullah. You'd think he'd hate terrorists by now, after what they've been doing to his country.

Did you forget the roots of Putin's career ? He was the main resident of the KGB in former East Germany. Very closed friend of Arafat and all the other terrorists and enemies of Israel. Don't wonder.

but what do the russians know? maybe they are looking to keep themselves from being targets of these groups. and i thought the russians were brave. oh well.

Russia is the beggest weapons supplier to terrorists State like Iran and Syria and North koriah,When ever is your interst,you are blind.

if we use mr. putins rational then the (chechen freedom fighters) are not terrorists

russia doesn't count aymore...their opinion is meaningless and they have no power anymore...this isn't the old days of the soviet union...russia is irelevant these days...so are the european countries

As as architect, I won't prescribe any more natural gas for housing heating, considering the fact that natural gas provided in France is coming from Russia. Putin is playing with all of us. and "spreading " as well, "the shit all over"...

Isarel you should be happy they didn't add you to the list may next year.

Everyone thought America had won the cold war. The cold war never ended, the USSR did a great job of feigning death. This is what happens when you do not destroy your enemies. Their strenght comes back and they are wiser than before. Now the whole world will suffer because of "human rights"

Russia actually sees Hizbullah and Hamas as regional political entities, as well they should considering Russia's negotiating on behalf of the future of its middle-class.. read: OIL. Israel's acting in its self-interest (trying to coerce the rest of the world into tarring islam) so i think it should see fitting that the rest of the world acts likewise.

Is this a significant "news" story? It may be if Russia took Hamas and Hezb off last years list. Story is not written well enough to know. Surely, Russia has many angles to play when forming this list and therefore it would be foolhardy to rely on their list for legitimacy.

http://www.mipt.vcu.edu/img/grozny-2000-2.jpg http://www.hro.org/editions/karta/nr22-23/foto/grozny.jpg

I wrote early in this morning that nowbody talket about Putin!!! I wrote: #Do Not Hesitate In this grave situation our target is of course Hezbollah and the evil Iranian leadership with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the frontline with help from weapons from Putin in Russia. I'm convinced that they have direct or indirect plans to destroy or weakening everybody in the Jewish state and its relatives in Diaspora. It's really harmful/shameful for Putin that the majority of the Jewish people in Russia left for Israel. Shame on you Putin and Russia!!! The same precedure as times in the beginning of HITLER in the fronline! And they lost the top brains in their country! Ha, ha, ha!!! But the have also responsibility to all the shameful percecution of innocent people! Pogroms, the same old shi'it!!! Nobody have talked about Putin and his mission in The Middle East!? It's time to wake up!!! Putin is said to have contacts with everyone in the Middle East and officially he will not harm anybody, but he is a REAL "SNAKE"!!!. What a surprise?! He and his followers is working hard in the background in world politics and nobody will think of any threat from Putin/Russia?! Putin is a hale snake! He is only thingking of the hegenomi of the new powerful Russia because of their oil and gas assets and are already among the G8+1 states after the summit in S:t Petersburg For some years a great many Jewish peoples are fleeing from the actual antisemic Russia (Gog) to Erets Israel. Will it be a TRAP for the peaceloving Israeli's? For the "NEW" NAZIS = Russia = Iran = China = Syria = Hesbollah = Hamas = Al-Qaida = the rest of terrorists in the world to finish Hitler's Holocaust??? My G-d please protect your people in Israel!!! It will not be in vain to send fighters (IAF/IDF) against the enemy! Fredman , Sweden (07.28.06)