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...weeks of lobbying and protests by foreign journalists at official obstructionism, a revamped government press operation announced it was taking a first group of correspondents to Grozny. I was on the trip, along with colleagues from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and France. We were to travel with Nikolai Koshman, the Russian government's plenipotentiary representative for Chechnya. On Monday, several hours late, we left from Vnukovo Airport on a government flight...
...side arms and testing their mikes. Presumably some sort of covert backup. The soldiers behind them were standing, guns at the ready, in full Spetsnaz battle dress, as if they were somehow expecting us to be attacked on the tarmac of the largest Russian base in the North Caucasus. Koshman clearly takes no chances. We landed between a line of helicopter gunships to our left and fighter bombers to our right. Koshman - who, we had been told, was our guide for the week - said hello and left. We never saw him again. We were escorted to a bus and headed...
...much delayed, finally happens. Accompanied by multiple levels of security, Anatoli Chubais, former Deputy Prime Minister and Kremlin chief of staff and now head of the energy monopoly RAOEES, drives up to the administrative building. With him are the Russian government's point man for the breakaway republic, Nikolai Koshman, and the mufti of Chechnya, who has recently withdrawn his support from the government of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov...
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