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...MISSING. SERGEI BODROV JR., 30, actor and director seen by many as the most promising figure in Russia's struggling film industry; after an avalanche swept through the site in the Caucasus where he was filming; in North Ossetia, Russia. The son of a well-known director, Bodrov had his breakthrough in the 1996 Prisoner of the Caucasus. Officials say they have little hope of finding more survivors of the massive avalanche, which killed as many as 150 people, including 49 from Bodrov's cast and crew...
...TIME's Moscow bureau chief Paul-Quinn Judge has spent the past 12 years covering the drama of the Soviet Union's collapse and Russia's travails, and has covered the wars in the Caucasus close-up. TIME.com phoned him for a briefing on how Putin plans to play his newfound importance in Washington's schema...
...fighting the jihad in Chechnya in the mid-1990s: "Abu Mushakil," or Father of Trouble. He had already seen plenty of it as a 19-year-old in Afghanistan, where he learned to fight in 1993; and later during his stints as soldier and gunrunner in Kosovo and the Caucasus?a career path that might have made the Hawaiian native an early John Walker Lindh. Instead, he turned his back on holy war and started working in counterterrorism for Uncle Sam, a tale told in My Jihad, an often horrifying combination of frank simplicity and cold-blooded violence...
...Sans Frontières was abducted in the republic of Dagestan in southern Russia. Peter-Arjan Erkel, 32, head of the M.S.F. mission in Dagestan, was seized by three gunmen in the suburbs of Makhachkala, the regional capital. Following the abduction, M.S.F. suspended aid work throughout Russia's North Caucasus region. Dagestan borders Chechnya, where M.S.F. and the U.N. suspended operations last month after the kidnaping of aid worker Nina Davidovich. Russian Interior Ministry officials said no ransom had been demanded for Erkel, and M.S.F. said it had not been contacted by his yet-unknown abductors. NIGERIA Resign or Else...
GEORGIA Gorge Aggression Two Russian combat planes crossed into Georgian airspace and bombed the mountains on the border with Chechnya, Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...