Word: zaitseva
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...reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line. "We always believed this tragedy would pass us by." Instead, the persistent insurgency in the North Caucasus keeps spreading - and what began in late 1994 as a war of secession in Chechnya is mutating...
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