ONE MORE "SLAVE", CITIZEN OF UKRAINE, FREED IN CHECHNYA








KHANKALA, 3 March 2001. /From RIA Novosti correspondent Alexander Stepanov/.  Federal troops freed this week Anatoly Fabritsyn who had spent over 10 years as slave in the Chechen village of Meskhety. 


	Before collapse of the Soviet Union Fabritsyn used to live in Ukraine. According to him, at a certain moment he found himself out of job in Kharkiv. That is why when a certain Chechen approached him with a proposal to go to Chechnya and make some money building houses there, he did not think long before giving consent.


	On arrival to Chechnya Fabritsyn and other members of his team were forced to give their passports to the local supervisor, after which the men were sent to different Chechen villages. In the following years, Fabrytsin had to do all kinds of work - tend grazing cattle, saw wood, dig trenches. As a rule, he was forced to toil and moil at the dirtiest and heaviest jobs. The "employers" always kept him on a meagre diet. 


	He made a few attempts to run away but each time his "masters" caught him and after savage beating brought him back to slavery. Still, according to Fabritsyn, he had never given up hope to regain freedom.