Word: chechenization
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...back home soon." Last week Alexander Yevtushenko, a Pravda correspondent, reported that former inmates of a prison in Gudermes claimed to have seen Babitsky looking physically and psychologically beaten. For those attempting to predict the future of Russia, the ongoing plight of Babitsky is an ominous sign. The Chechen war has been waged under a news blockade, but now Russian journalists fear that a new campaign is emerging against the press itself...
...Chechnya. It started in Znamenskoye, theoretically the most pacified and pro-Russian part of the country. It continued in Gudermes, the railway town that will probably be Chechnya's new capital, and ended in Avturi, 15 miles south of Grozny, where 300-to-400 yds. separate Russian and Chechen troops. Security, even in the most firmly controlled areas, is something that remains confined to daylight hours. The Chechen fighters have been bruised, but they are far from finished...
...have been detained. This is the blunt edge of the news blockade." But Babitsky's case came to represent a new low in Moscow's contempt for the media when the Russian military announced, last Thursday, that it had turned the journalist over - supposedly at his own request - to Chechen guerrillas in exchange for two captured Russian soldiers...
...wife and his colleagues to speculate over whether the alleged handover ever took place. They suspect Moscow's insistence that Russian forces were no longer responsible for Babitsky's well-being may be designed to absolve the authorities of any crime that may have been committed against the reporter. Chechen authorities have denied ever having been involved in any such swap, and a video of the alleged handover released by Russian authorities raised more questions than it answered. It's far from clear that the gruff men in black masks seen on the tape marching Babitsky away are in fact...
...battle for the Chechen capital may have been primarily symbolic - if particularly bloody - but the for the city's residents it has been devastating. Many have sheltered for months in freezing cellars with little to eat or drink, enduring daily pounding by Russian artillery and aircraft. Now hardly a building is left intact, and Russian officials have indicated that Moscow is unlikely to cough up the $1 billion that would be required to start rebuilding the city. (For one thing, if the history of the last war is anything to go by, Moscow's tenure there may be far from...