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...