RUSSIA: RUSSIAN REPORTER ANDREI BABITSKY RETURNS HOME TO MOSCOW AFTER BEING RELEASED BY DAGESTAN OFFICIALS
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RUSSIA: RUSSIAN REPORTER ANDREI BABITSKY RETURNS HOME TO MOSCOW AFTER BEING RELEASED BY DAGESTAN OFFICIALS
- Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN REPORTER ANDREI BABITSKY RETURNS HOME TO MOSCOW AFTER BEING RELEASED BY DAGESTAN OFFICIALS
- Date: 29th February 2000
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 29, 2000)(NTV - NO ACCESS CIS) 1. LV/WS: EXTERIOR OF BABITSKY'S APARTMENT AT NIGHT (2 SHOTS) 0.07 2. SV/CU: ANDREI BABITSKY AT HOME WITH DAUGHTER REBECCA/PICTURE OF BABITSKY WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER (3 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ANDREI BABITSKY "My minders insistently recommended to me, without giving me any other option, that I go to Azerbaijan, which I didn't want to do. In Chechnya, they took away my two passports (foreign travel passport and domestic identification document) from me and they used the photograph from one of them to make me a new passport. But they failed to get me through a border checkpoint because they did not foresee needing some kind of stamp. Then they tried to give me a guide who has to take me into Azerbaijan by crossing through some fields, but when we sat in a taxi to head off I was able to convince him that I needed to go to Makhachkala (capital of Dagestan republic in Russia)." 1.12 4. SV'S: ANDREI BABITSKY TALKING ON PHONE AT HIS HOUSE, TALKING TO JOURNALIST (2 SHOTS) 1.35 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ANDREI BABITSKY: "In a very strange way, without informing my wife, on an empty plane, though my wife is now in Makhachkala (Dagestan) and there was no problem picking her up to join us. The plane was, as I understood it, the personal plane of Interior Minister Rushailo. They then took me to the Chakolovski (military) airport and an investigator, I don't remember his name though I have a document from him, told me that the conditions of my detension were changed, but I was required to remain in Moscow." 2.13 6. SCU: BABITSKY AND DAUGHTER 2.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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