Chechen leader blames foreign spies for slaying his critics

MOSCOW (AP) — The regional strongman leader of Russia’s province of Chechnya has blamed unidentified foreign special services for the recent killing in Austria of a Chechen man who criticized him. Ramzan Kadyrov claimed on his blog Thursday that the ethnic Chechen who was shot dead in a Vienna suburb over the weekend fell victim to “special services working against Russia and myself.” He rejected allegations of his involvement in the killing, saying that the slaying in Vi