[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    TACTICS OF KGB ARE UNACCEPTABLE

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, the KGB is back. Yesterday, the head of 
Russia's only free media was arrested; and as we meet here this 
morning, he is still in prison.
  President Putin of Russia is in Madrid claiming not to know anything 
about this. He is either a puppet or he is a perpetrator.
  I call on the Russian Government to release, without any further 
delay, the head of the only free media network in Russia. This is the 
network which reported accurately on the war in Chechnya. This is the 
network that can provide us with the hope of building a democratic 
society in Russia.
  The tactics of the KGB are unacceptable in the 21st century.

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