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At the Kremlin's gate.


not understand it. While we were there, Chechen suicide bomb attacks were increas- ing, and when when a bomber killed 13 people innocently drinking coffee in a street café a half mile from our hotel, we knew it was time to leave. Three weeks later, when we learned that a young Chechen woman had walked into the lobby of our hotel and pressed a button, killing herself and 27 guests, we knew we had made the right decision. From Moscow we wanted to head west


toward St. Petersburg and the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Instead, a career police officer with other ideas, chased us for five miles before shoving us into a “questioning room” for four hours. Suddenly our adventure was turning into a nightmare. We struggled to understand why but


somehow understood that we were being threatened with legal action, but for what? “Rubles orrr prrrotocal!” he kept demand- ing. Lisa’s short fuse was getting shorter, and I struggled to control myself as Ivan and his colleagues interrogated her. All they needed was an excuse and they’d keep us here for days—or until we paid them what they wanted. In the end, we crossed Ivan’s palm and promised to put a photo of him on our


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