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A grassroots fundraiser help build a monument honoring the city's 21 men who died serving in Vietnam. Their stories told in a book by Terry Nau.

This unit had its origins in a terrible crisis. Key point: Special forces can help to deal with all kinds of tricky situations. Here is what the SOBR can do. If asked to name a counterterrorism unit in Russia, most people would probably think of the FSB’s elite “Alpha” unit. Alpha participated in the 1993 constitutional crisis, the Nord-Ost theatre siege and the Beslan hostage crisis, and are called out on the biggest and most sensitive incidents. However, they don’t deal with the majority of terrorism incidents in Russia. Rather, this responsibility falls to the SOBR ( Spetsial’ny...