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One of the organizers of the Moscow theater siege in October 2002, Isa Dzhantayev, was killed in Chechnya on Tuesday night. The operation was carried out by the Russian Defense Ministry?s elite troops, Colonel Nikolai Baranov, a spokesman for the Russian troops in North Caucasus, told RBC. He said Isa Dzhantayev had been an active member of illegal armed units and a close aide of Chechen commander Movsar Barayev, who oversaw the hostage taking operation in the Moscow theater on October 23, 2002. Movsar Barayev and about 40 other terrorists were killed during the storm of the building by...