In the land of caviar, tale of woe

From: The Boston Globe | Date: June 8, 1997| Author: David Filipov, Globe Staff | Copyright information

ON THE BAKHTEMIR RIVER, Russia -- The police captain looked up from breakfast the way they like it here in sturgeon country -- pounds of black caviar slathered on white bread, a snack worth more than $1,000 in the West -- and nodded toward a clump of wooden huts on the far bank of this swampy Caspian Sea estuary.

There, said the captain, a 30-year-old veteran of the Chechen war whose first name is Igor, villagers string nets between two anchors close to the river bottom to snag sturge...

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