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Awaiting The 'Big Fire'; Kremlin-watchers buzz about who will replace Putin. But Russia's real future is outside Moscow.(Vladimir Putin)

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Byline: Michael Meyer and Anna Nemtsova

Ramazan Tembotov hardly cuts the image of a hardened Islamo-terrorist. A soft-spoken human-rights activist, he's clearly more at home with legal briefs than a Kalashnikov. He's also an elected representative of the Kremlin's ruling party, United Russia. Yet none of that kept him from being rounded up in a massive counterterrorism operation in the Russian town of Nalchik, deep in the volatile north Caucasus, where masked militia recently grabbed him from his car at gunpoint and carted him off to jail.

What greeted him there was almost Dante-esque: prisoners crowded into small rooms and corridors, "howling like ...

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