"Problem solved."

oh how much i want to comment but i shall refrain - a short extract from todays MT:

Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Issue 3595. Page 4. News in Brief

Chechen War Called Success

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday that Russia had succeeded in its latest war in Chechnya, defeating separatists and what he called their "emissaries from 50 states."
"We have scored a success in Chechnya," Ivanov said. "The problem has been solved."
Ivanov, speaking before an international audience of defense officials and diplomats at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, underscored the Kremlin's confidence that the second war in Chechnya since the dissolution of the Soviet Union had largely ended, and that the separatists' ranks had been shrunk by military operations and offers of amnesty. (AP)