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Envoy seized

Friday 01 May 1998 23:02 BST
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Envoy seized

PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin's personal envoy to Chechnya, Valentin Vlasov, was kidnapped in the breakaway region. He had been working to find a lasting settlement with the Chechen leadership. - Reuters, Moscow

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