Rússia, 2003. O país mudou muito desde o fim da união soviética, mas ainda tem que lidar com fantasmas de seu passado. O coronel Fillip Fox Korenev é o encarregado de um grupo clandestino especializado em antiterrorismo, que agora terá a complicada missão de ajudar a polícia de uma cidade ao sul do país a resistir a uma tentativa de resgate diante de uma perigosa organização terrorista islâmica que deseja libertar seu líder a qualquer custo, nem que para isso tenha que destruir todo o lugar.
This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.
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This is a story about the battle for a hospital building in Grozny (Chechnya) in January 1995 between Russian Army forces and Chechen rebels supported by Arabian mujahideen and international mercenaries. Although the story is fictional, most of the characters are based on real-life prototypes and events are the compilation of true events during the Grozny Siege in the First Chechen War.
A biologist, obsessed with the idea of writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse, becomes witness to a number of bizarre and horrific events, from his son's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to his own family's psychic morbidity.
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Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. A couple of weeks later, the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?"