Kidnapping of a resident of the village of Pobedinskoye

November 15, 2001
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Between approximately November 15 and 18, Russian soldiers, some of whom were wearing masks, took away Shakhran Shaptievich Zakriev, born in 1969, from the village of Pobedinskoye. The kidnapped person worked as a labor teacher at school No. 27 in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. According to his relatives, he had nothing to do with the ChRI Military Fleet and did not fight in either the first or second war.


From the book “People Live Here”, Usam Baysaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006.

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