Pankisi Gorge

Timur Batchaev and I were in camouflage uniforms with weapons, standing against the background of a forest and reciting a pre-arranged text, while Vakha filmed us on a video camera. Later I was filmed alone, as Vakha said that the people (the clients of the filming) did not believe him, because there were rumors that I had been killed. In conversations, Vakha constantly mentioned that the client for the filming was a journalist named Yuri, living abroad. After I heard on the radio that Yuri Felshtinsky began talking about our interview, I realized that this was the same Yuri Vakha was talking about.

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