Baiyev may be out of danger, but he continues to worry about the family he left behind in Alkhan-Kala, including his three small children. His family continues to be harassed by Russian authorities who regularly loot his home.
While undergoing treatment at the Washington Hospital Center, the 37-year-old doctor has been invited to deliver lectures on medicine in extreme situations. These are invitations he prefers to turn down.
"I?€™m not a politician, I?€™m a doctor. I do not want to be involved in dirty politics," Baiyev said in a telephone interview from Maryland.
What he wants is to be reunited with his family, and to return to his native Chechnya ?€” an impossible dream at the moment.
"[America] is a nice and rich country, but I want to go home," said Baiyev. "Nothing is keeping me here."
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