19 November 2002 MOSCOW, 19 November (Gazeta-ru)–Red Cross workers Alexander Panov and Musa Satushiev were freed from Chechen captivity on 17 November. It turns out that they were not abducted by Aslan Maskhadov’s [leader of Chechen rebels] gunmen as initially thought, but by five residents of Grozny, who hoped to exchange them for a comrade detained by the Federal Security […]
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