
Elina Ersenoyeva, 26, disappeared in Grozny on Aug. 17. News of her marriage to Basayev first appeared last Wednesday on the web site of the Chechen Council of Nongovernmental Organizations. According to Tatyana Lokshina, an expert with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and chair of its Center Demos research group, she married Basayev in secret and against her will in November 2005.
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