15 July 1997 THE YEAR BEGAN DRAMATICALLY IN Chechnya. Radical field commander Salman Raduev and his men seized hundreds of hostages from a hospital in the town of Kizlyar in neighboring Dagestan on 9 January and demanded the with-drawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The next day, the Chechens and their hostages were surrounded by Russian troops in the village […]
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