Chechnya

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Andrew Meier's riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by the worst fighting since Stalingrad, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.
The terrorist siege in 2004 that resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred innocent children In Beslan was one more tragic consequence of the Chechen war that broke out on December 31, 1994, when Boris Yeltsin sent hundreds of tanks to the city of Grozny to quell popular demands for independence. Six years later, Meier traveled to the scene of one of the worst massacres carried out by Russian troops, reporting on the carnage in which at least sixty Chechen civilians were slaughtered. Days after a Chechen woman became the conflict's first female suicide bomber, Meier visited this breakaway province, encountering, among others, teenaged Chechen saboteurs, Wah-habi Islamists spiritually aligned with the Taliban, and a stream of Russian mothers arriving at the morgue to... Tovább

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CURRENT AFFAIRS
Andrew Meier's riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by the worst fighting since Stalingrad, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.
The terrorist siege in 2004 that resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred innocent children In Beslan was one more tragic consequence of the Chechen war that broke out on December 31, 1994, when Boris Yeltsin sent hundreds of tanks to the city of Grozny to quell popular demands for independence. Six years later, Meier traveled to the scene of one of the worst massacres carried out by Russian troops, reporting on the carnage in which at least sixty Chechen civilians were slaughtered. Days after a Chechen woman became the conflict's first female suicide bomber, Meier visited this breakaway province, encountering, among others, teenaged Chechen saboteurs, Wah-habi Islamists spiritually aligned with the Taliban, and a stream of Russian mothers arriving at the morgue to identify their soldier sons. Chechnya is Meier's stunning report from a region where over a hundred thousand people have already died and children have become pawns in a seemingly endless war.
"[Andrew Meier] describes not only the politics and the morality of the war, but what it feels like to be there, on the ground, asking questions In a very strange place." —Anne Applebaum, The Sunday Telegraph, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag
"Meier's passion Is for the victim . . . those caught In the Chechen 'Meat Grinder,' and he works hard to get their stories, sometimes at great risk to himself."
—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
Andrew Meier was a Moscow correspondent for Time from 1996 to 2001. He is the author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall. Vissza