According to a spokesman for the Chechen Foreign Ministry in exile, the Danish cartoons controversy was all a part of a Russian government plan to destabilise the Caucasus:
Definitely, we consider the drawings to be scandalous but I think there is one very interesting point in this story: I realized Jyllands-Posten’s editor of culture is married to the daughter of a FSB general. And he had been working in Moscow as Jyllands-Posten’s correspondent. I suppose that this scandal is nothing else than another regular provocation of the Russian Special Services.
With daft comments like this, is it any wonder no-one takes them seriously any more?
Yes, Chechens also say that Flemming Rose, the culture editor at Jyllands-Posten, married a daughter of a KGB general while in Moscow as a correspondent (he spent almost a decade in Russia) and is a KGB officer himself. The first is verifiable but if true, means little (plenty of successful young Russians have KGB-related parents); the second, well… who knows?