Estonian man returns home from Chechnya

  • 1998-10-01
  • Denise Albrighton
TALLINN - An Estonian man who left for Chechnya in 1993 and was thought to have died suddenly returned to the country last week, prompting talk about what happened to him during his five-year absence. Forty-three-year-old Hans Mikk returned penniless and without documents to Viljandi in southern Estonia, with the help of the deputy speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, Romualdas Ozolas, and the Estonian Foreign Ministry. Ozolas issued a statement Sept. 23 explaining that an Estonian citizen Hans Mikk, captured in Dagestan in 1992 and then held in Chechnya, had since been freed with the help...
 
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