GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Days before Crimea voted in a referendum to join Russia from Ukraine, Adam, a Chechen soldier, was ordered to go to the Black Sea peninsula to defend Russia's interests.
He and about 200 other soldiers from his special battalion, grouping ethnic Chechens, were mobilised on March 12 and spent two weeks in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria.
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