Orlov said the victims had been dead for less than a year, which meant they were killed when the area was under Russian control. He said relatives had already taken away seven bodies and identified them as corpses of people who had disappeared after being arrested by Russian security forces. President Vladimir Putin, speaking in a live Internet interview on Tuesday with the British Broadcasting Corporation and two Russian web sites, dismissed suggestions that Russian forces acted brutally in Chechnya. He also parried the BBC journalist's assertion that Russia's campaign had failed to win over Chechen public opinion. The reporter said she had been to Chechnya and found locals were hostile to Moscow and angry at the military intervention.
Many people look at it negatively, many positively.