A Russian court sentenced a Chechen refugee to seven and a half years in prison for kidnapping an Israeli teen-ager who was held in Chechnya for five months before her release. The court found Bulat Umalatov guilty of abducting Laura Lichtman in 1999.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
