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MOSCOW, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The head of Russia's parliament has praised Finland for closing a Chechen web-site, Interfax news agency reported Monday.
State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov welcomed the news that Finnish authorities have closed a Chechen separatist website called the Caucasus Center, Interfax said.
"The issue of the site was raised during a working visit paid by a delegation of the Russian Federal Assembly to Helsinki over the weekend," said Gryzlov, who headed the delegation.
"That was not a privately owned computer," Gryzlov said, making it clear that some organization had operated it.
"The computer was seized and the site was closed down," Gryzlov said. "We consider it a positive factor that the site was closed down after only operating for five days."
Previously, the Caucasus Center had operated from Lithuania and had carried web-messages from the Chechen leader believed responsible for the massacre of schoolchildren in Beslan, North Caucasus, last month. Under pressure from Russia, the Lithuanian government shut down the operation of the site and it then moved to Finland.
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