Lost men in a lost society

  • 1998-09-10
  • By Katya Cengel
While family members search for answers and ministers negotiate details, two Latvian men remain captive in Chechnya. Katya Cengel reports, with translations by Lauma Bruvele, on how it is hard to place blame, and even harder to get answers, when dealing with a country where disorder has become the norm.During their college years in St. Petersburg, Julia Pridorogina and her husband, Konstantin, used to joke about kidnappings in the Caucuses. Because they lived in Latvia, a country that supported Chechnya's attempts for independence, and had friends from the Caucasus region, the Pridorogins n...
 
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