The statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry press center received by RIA Novosti notes that the protest was sent to chief of The Globe and Mail Moscow bureau Mark MacKinnon, who "initiated this provocation."
The document stresses that the Canadian journalist's attention was drawn to the inadmissibility of giving the information floor to murderers and terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of Russian people, including Beslan children.
In the interview, Basayev speaks with new threats to continue war against Russia at least for another 10 years, including with the use of weapons of mass destruction.
It was stressed in this connection that such publications "are not only out of line with elementary norms of journalistic ethics and arouse justified indignation, but are close to being an accomplice to terrorism."
The letter expresses the hope that The Globe and Mail and its Moscow bureau will in the future treat in a more deliberate and professional way the coverage of antiterrorist problems and avoid propaganda of terrorists' views.
