Chechyna
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Crying Wolf | Russia troops enter Chechnya at the start of the war
What the Russian tank-drivers saw as they headed across the Chechen plains was a primitive part of the former Soviet Union…
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Chechyna’s Theatre of War
Akhmed Zakayev – actor, politician and former resistance fighter – talks to Vanora Bennett LONDON, Jan 2007 – IT might
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An inconvenient truth
Harper’s Bazaar – April Edition, 2007 Anna Politkovskaya, murdered by a hitman outside her Moscow flat last October, was someone
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A modern-day spy story
Death by radiation of ex-Russian agent draws parallels to the country’s legendary, shadowy KGB By Vanora Bennett, Special to Newsday
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Is there truth in Litvinenko’s accusation that KGB poisoned him?
The Guardian, November 21 2006 Imagine you were a foreign power that wanted to get rid of a dissident who
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The probable poisoning of a Russian ex-spy
Evening Standard – November 20, 2006 The apparent poisoning of exiled Russian ex-secret service man Alexander Litvinenko inLondon has plunged this
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Tragedy of truth-telling Russian reporter’s death
Evening Standard – October 10, 2006 I didn’t want to believe she’d be murdered. Anna Politkovskaya’s tall thin vehemence, her
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From Russia with secrets
Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest
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The oligarch’s revenge
Guardian Weekend Magazine – February 19, 2005 (published under the nom de plume Veronica Martin) Vladimir Putin is master of
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Two cheers for the appearance on the British stage of Russia’s financial stars
The Times – April 8, 2004 You may feel a twinge of envy if someone you know makes millions. But,
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Why cast me as a criminal?
The Times – January 31, 2003 Chechen freedom fighter Akhmed Zakayev was once the only separatist Moscow would negotiate with.
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Power food – crime and luxury at the end of the earth
Prospect Magazine – February, 2001 On the shore of the Caspian Sea you can, if you know the right people,
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Chechens in Russia “moving between circles of Hell”
The Times – January 27, 2000 Zarema and her family had three choices. Live illegally on the streets in Moscow