Word: vania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian soldiers, young Vania, played by Bodrov's son Sergei Jr., and experienced Sasha (Oleg Menshikov) are ambushed and taken prisoner by a Chechen father. They are to be used as negotiating tools to facilitate the freedom of his son, who is being held in a Russian prison, despite the town leaders' repeated warnings that the Russians will bring nothing but trouble to every...
...press conference in which he vowed to supervise officers more closely. But defense attorneys say no significant reforms occurred. "Unless the institutions change, having prosecutions every five years is not going to be the answer," says David Rudovsky, a civil rights attorney and a University of Penn syl vania law professor. "You can't wait until somebody complains. You have to be pro-active, and every good police department knows that...