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Bunn said the combined effort by the Russian and U.S. governments also played a role...
Detained by Russian soldiers as he left the ruins of Grozny on Jan. 16, Babitsky, who had broadcast hard-hitting reports about Russian casualties and brutalities in Chechnya, was held incommunicado for 12 days. Later his wife learned he had been in a prison where the Russians claim to "filter" terrorists from civilians--using torture, according to human-rights groups. On Feb. 3 the Russians suddenly made a deal with the Chechens to swap Babitsky for two Russian POWs. The outrage was immediate. "What kind of state arrests a journalist and then uses him in a POW swap?" asks Radio...
...reported that former inmates of a prison in Gudermes claimed to have seen Babitsky looking physically and psychologically beaten. For those attempting to predict the future of Russia, the ongoing plight of Babitsky is an ominous sign. The Chechen war has been waged under a news blockade, but now Russian journalists fear that a new campaign is emerging against the press itself...
...down an ice-covered riverbed. Under a full moon, Fomenko has seen the giant paw prints of the Amur tiger, more widely known as the Siberian tiger. But he is not hunting the striped cat; he's hunting the hunters. Working for the World Wildlife Fund in cooperation with Russian authorities, he is leading an anti-poaching patrol, going after criminals who try to profit from killing one of the world's most magnificent--and endangered--creatures. Telltale tire tracks in the snow suggest to Fomenko that a Jeep full of poachers is on the trail...
...Five Home to Home Base: Quinn-Judge meets Russian soldiers stationed near the Vedeno Gorge