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President Vladimir Putin instructed the Federal Security Service to coordinate a hostage rescue operation in Sochi

September 21, 2000

German Ugryumov, Deputy Head of the Federal Security Service, and Vladimir Kozlov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, flew to the North Caucasus to coordinate the rescue operation.

Nine builders from Krasnodar were taken hostage by an unknown group. The militants demanded $30 million and a release of all Chechens held in pretrial detention centres and prisons in Russia.

September 21, 2000