Word: beslan
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Some residents scavenge bricks from ruins for resale, others sell the crude oil that bubbles up in many backyards - oil is one of the main prizes being fought over in this war. Many thousands depend on handouts from the few international agencies working in the city. Grozny's mayor, Beslan Gantemirov - amnestied in 1999 from a Russian prison where he was serving six years for embezzling municipal reconstruction funds after the last Chechen war in the mid-'90s - is highly visible. Thanks to his fast cars and retinue of heavies with nicknames like King Kong, he can hardly be missed...