Chechnya, Then and Now: A Reader’s Guide
May 06, 2013

Three weeks ago, Chechnya was just a name on a map. As reports came in that the main suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were of Chechen extraction, I looked at the books I'd read about Chechnya. What was it like to live, I wondered, in this region that everybody had heard of but nobody knew about? 

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