NALCHIK, Russia -- A Chechen rebel has been sentenced to life ... into Chechnya in late 1999 to quell an uprising by separatist guerillas. Russia first announced that the military phase of the ...

A boy hid him in a foxhole and asked local guerillas for help. On a dark night, they decided to break the blockade by 1,000 enemy soldiers. The episode, which sounds like some fictional story ...