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...Yuri Shchekochikhin could foretell the future. In May, as a wave of suicide attacks in Chechnya killed 77 people and wounded over 300 others, he made a prediction. "We have entered a new stage. It's Palestine," he told TIME. "Now suicide bombers will start hitting Russia." His grim prophecy came true on July 5, when two female Chechen suicide bombers killed 14 and injured over 60 by detonating explosive belts at a Moscow rock festival. But "Shchekoch," as he is nicknamed, wasn't around to see the attack. The crusading journalist and politician had died under mysterious circumstances...
...increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
What has happened to him since? Yuri Kozyrev, the photographer who took the picture, and TIME correspondent Alex Perry went to the al Kindi hospital last week to check on Ali, but it was closed. Looting and disorder in Baghdad had forced doctors to move Ali and other critically injured patients. Our journalists found him at a hospital in Saddam City, a neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, where they were able to talk with him. Rasping through singed lungs, Ali, 12, indicated that he may have surviving family members. He said his parents are divorced and his father and stepmother...
...dozens of foreign journalists holed up in the Hotel Palestine. That was how the international press corps gathered at the Palestine Hotel in the Iraqi capital interpreted the sudden disappearance of most of the government minders who have remained at their sides throughout the war. TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev phoned home Tuesday morning to report that most of the "guides" had gone, and not returned, leaving correspondents freed of government restraints but facing new perils in the final battle for Baghdad. Many of the journalists took the development as a sign that the regime may be collapsing. Kozyrev did manage...
...YURI KOZYREV...