UES CHIEF SLAMS LIBERAL'S CHECHNYA PLAN

MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - Head of Russian UES energy corporation Anatoly Chubais has sharply criticized the peace plan for Chechnya recently proposed by leader of liberal Yabloko movement Grigory Yavlinsky.

He told the Moscow press on Friday he was shocked by the proposals. Chubais said that if implemented, the Yavlinsky plan "will not just stab the Russian army in the back but help [Chechen president Aslan] Maskhadov take militant gangsters beyond the boundaries of Chechnya and hide them from justice."

"The Russian army is reviving in Chechnya, faith in the army is growing and a politician who does not think so cannot be regarded a Russian politician. In this case there is only one definition - a traitor. And Yavlinsky's attempts to justify himself, to say that he was misinterpreted do not change matters," Chubais said.