: A 21-year-old Russian soldier, sitting down with a Big Mac at a McDonald's here in the Georgian capital, said Tuesday that he had changed into civilian clothes and walked across the South Ossetian border into Georgia because he was fed up with his military service there. The soldier, Junior Sergeant Aleksandr Glukhov, a computer buff from Udmurtia, a central Russian republic, seemed unaware of the clamor he had prompted at home. As information about his action filtered out from Tbilisi, Russia's Defense Ministry contended that he had been abducted by Georgian forces...
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
