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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (15294)	11/14/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 17770

Nikita, I started going to Chechnya (and Dagestan and Ingushetia and Kabardino-Bakaria)regularly towards the end of 1991..I was in Chechnya, on a year's grant, when the war broke out there in 1994. Last time I was there was in 1997, to cover the local presidential & parliamentary elections. It's the kidnapping craze that's kept me away since. I always stayed in people's homes, and no way could I subject my hosts to the strain & the burden of providing security for me. You know the demands of Caucasian hospitality! Funny thing, right up to the war Chechnya was a much safer place to be than Moscow was -- and it was a lot cheaper, too, since your hosts would NEVER let you pay for anything...Sad, how war can change things permanently.