Shell explosion and wounding of a girl in Chiri-Yurt, release of a Russian hostage from captivity
August 8, 2001
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At 6.30 in the village of Chiri-Yurt, a shell exploded in the Salamovs' house. A 14-year-old girl was seriously injured.
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In Chechnya, Svetlana Kuzmina (54), who headed the Samara regional committee "Chechnya", was released from captivity, in which she spent more than two years. Kuzmina, who lived in the city of Samara, was engaged in the search for and release of captured Russian servicemen in Chechnya. In June 1999, she was taken hostage along with the Samara journalist Viktor Petrov, who managed to escape about two months ago. The abductors were influenced by the position of field commander Ruslan Gelayev, who insisted on the release of the hostage.
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In Chechnya, all emergency control measures introduced on August 6 on the anniversary of the storming of the city of Grozny by militants in 1996 have been canceled
From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006
