HOSTAGE NINA DAVIDOVICH, CHAIMAN OF THE DRUZHBA SOCIETY, SET FREE IN
CHECHNYA
PYATIGORSK, 9 January.
/RIA Novosti correspondent Edgar Saroyan/.
On Thursday representatives of the Stavropol territorial department
of the Russian Federal Security Service reported to journalists at
a press conference that chairman of the "Druzhba" (Friendship) society
Nina Davydovich, a 57-year-old woman from Saint Petersburg was set free
in Chechnya.
Davydovich was kidnapped on 23 July 2002 in the vicinity of the Gorogorsky
settlement. All that time kidnappers kept her in a pit and treated
cruelly demanding USD 1 million as a ransom.
She was set free as a result of joint actions of the Stavropol territorial
Department of the Federal Security Service and officers of the Peace-keeping
mission in the North Caucasus.
The organization headed by Davydovich was providing humanitarian aid to children's
institutions in Chechnya.
The former hostage will be sent home after a period of rehabilitation.