Word: vnukovo
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...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...
...Vnukovo to Mozdok The flight was crammed, mostly with heavily armed men. We sat with bags on our knees and tried to eat the kerosene-scented meal. Toward the end I realized that the white stuff on my plate was fish. The bone was a giveaway. As the plane entered the last 45 minutes or so of its flight, some of the men in uniform began to sprout earphones and mikes in their cuffs, Secret Service-style. By the time we had landed, several not very military-looking young men - one dressed like a student, one in a cheap jacket...
Such crimes have become depressingly familiar in Moscow. A day after the attempt on Berezovsky's life, an elderly man lost his leg to another car bomb. Two days after that, Alexei Yeliseyev, the second in command at Vnukovo Airlines, was beaten to death in front of his house. That same day two people were shot to death by gangsters during a car chase on the Rublev Highway. What surprised onlookers was not the sight of a high-speed gun battle along the heavily guarded road. It was the fact that a modest, Russian-made Zhiguli was able to overtake...
...then there are the delays. Glassy-eyed passengers can spend days huddled in dimly lit waiting rooms called, with spectacular aptness, "accumulators." Last summer, after enduring four stuporous days stranded in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, 350 passengers stormed the runway in an attempt to force a plane to take them home. Riot police were called in, and three people were injured...
...what he regarded as cavalier treatment by the commonwealth founders was Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan. When the agreement was signed he was in the air, en route to Moscow for a scheduled meeting with Gorbachev and the three Slavic presidents that never came off; Yeltsin phoned him at Vnukovo airport shortly after his plane landed to tell him about the agreement. Nazarbayev darkly suspected that the Slavic leaders were aiming at a "medieval" division of the union along religious- ethnic-cultural lines and talked for awhile of siding with Gorbachev to keep a central government alive. His defection from...