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PULTUSK, Poland - A Chechen separatist leader wanted in Russia on terrorism charges said Saturday his release from temporary arrest in Poland means that another European country rejects the Russian allegations he calls "absurd." Akhmed Zakayev told The Associated Press that the Polish court's decision on Friday to release him "showed once again that the position of people in Europe concerning Russia's approach to Zakayev has not changed, that they stand by the law." Zakayev, who lives in exile in Britain, faces charges of murder, kidnapping and terrorism in Russia, stemming from the 1999 conflict in Chechnya, when he was a top assistant to the late separatist President Aslan Maskhadov.