The knowledge that the toffee-and-poppy-seed cake had been made by a group of local volunteers was enough to reassure the Chechen militia commander that he would not be poisoned over afternoon tea. "For anything else," he said, handing over a small cardboard box containing a Geiger counter, "I always scan for radiation."
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A member of Dzhokhar Dudaev Battalion walks in the corridor of the base Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
