21 August 2002 MOSCOW, 12 August (Ezhenedelny zhurnal)--Even before the recent clashes of [Russian] border troops with a group of Chechen separatists near the Georgian border were over, domestic politicians and the military had all of sudden begun to argue that Russia must deal with "the bandits' lair" in the Pankisi Gorge [in Georgia, which […]

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