Envoy Kidnapped in Chechen Capital
From Times Wire Reports
Russian troops along the Chechen border were placed on increased alert after the abduction of the Interior Ministry’s top envoy in the breakaway republic. Maj. Gen. Gennady Shpigun was taken captive by masked men who boarded his plane as it was about to depart from the Chechen capital, Grozny, for Moscow. Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin ordered the troops put on “increased military alert,” news agencies reported.
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