MOSCOW. Sept 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Member of the State Duma Colonel General Arkady Baskayev said on Friday he will draft an enquiry to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on results of the investigation into the terrorist attack on Colonel General Anatoly Romanov, commander of the Interior Ministry Force and chief of the federal forces in Chechnya, committed in autumn 1995.
"I will draft a parliamentary enquiry to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office tomorrow concerning results of the investigation into the terrorist attack that heavily injured Interior Ministry Force Commander Colonel General Romanov and killed many privates and officers of a special-purpose team. I believe that the investigation that has been in progress for eight years is unjustifiably protracted," Baskayev told a news conference at the Interfax main office.
Romanov "was worshipped in Chechnya because soldiers were never pawns in a big game for him. He was not a chair-born commander, General Romanov made most of his decisions directly on the frontline," Baskayev said.
Romanov's wife Larisa told the news conference that law- enforcers have not made results of the investigation known to her. "I have contacted investigators of the Prosecutor General's Office several time in relation to this issue. Every time I was told that combat operations are in progress in Chechnya, and there is no chance to complete investigative actions on the scene of the terrorist attack in Grozny," Romanova said.