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HIID has been the target of national media attention over the past few years as a result of a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a project in Russia. Two HIID team members there were accused of using their knowledge of and connections to the Russian economy to aid private investors...
Russia has won this round of the battle for Grozny, but only because the Chechens decided to bring it to a close. Rebel spokesmen announced Tuesday that they had abandoned the capital, and Western reporters confirmed that the Russian flag now flies over the fiercely contested Minutka Square. Many of the rebel fighters who managed to break through Russian lines in a bloody retreat have regrouped at the village of Alkhan-Khala, planning to head south into the mountains. Russian forces have reportedly surrounded the village, but haven't tried to advance on the rebel positions there. Capturing Grozny...
...have been anything but the carefully planned and executed tactical retreat the guerrillas may have envisaged: Chechen sources admitted Tuesday that dozens of fighters and commanders were killed or wounded when a large contingent of rebels found themselves trapped on a minefield and were then cut to pieces by Russian artillery. A number of top Chechen leaders were reportedly killed in the fierce fighting to break through the Russian lines, and the rebels' top commander, Shamil Basayev, was reported to have been badly wounded when his car detonated a mine. Both sides now have paid a heavy price...
When magician DAVID COPPERFIELD found himself in a bind he couldn't escape, he got some real masters-of-the-universe help from former CIA and KGB insiders. After a Dec. 12 performance in Moscow, Copperfield had his seven trucks and all his equipment seized by the Russian promoters, who claimed he owed them money. The State Department was unable to help, and after three weeks without his trucks, a desperate Copperfield turned to IGI, a security agency populated with former CIA and FBI insiders. The ex-spooks reached out to the KGB vets they had spied...
...dramatic impact on demand for U.S. soft drinks. "The key factor in the company's performance is a write-down of its assets in Russia and former Soviet territories, where it had a meltdown a couple of years ago," says TIME business editor Bill Saporito. "Pepsi declared its Russian operations distressed assets some time back, and analysts had wondered how long Coke could continue to carry its own. This was just a case of reality catching up with the corporation...