CEEFAX 1 147 Wed 29 Dec 13:16/15 ********************** * ****** ***** ******* ********************** From World Today, BBC World Service
Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag puts Russia's expected victory in Chechnya into perspective.
It quotes President Clinton as saying that the Chechen war will be expensive for Russia, adding that these are not financial but geopolitical losses.
Russia was forced to accept that Georgia and Azerbaijan become part of the US's sphere of interest, that China gets more say in Central Asia and in the Far East, and its monopoly in the Caucasus is diminished, it adds. 4/4 WORLD TODAY: Monday-Friday only World service: MW 648, SW 6.195