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Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has
struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region
declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian
withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and warlords. A
series of apartment building attacks in Moscow in 1999, allegedly
orchestrated by a rebel faction, reignited the war, which continues
to rage today. Russia has gone to great lengths to keep journalists
from reporting on the conflict; consequently, few people outside
the region understand its scale and the atrocities--described by
eyewitnesses as comparable to those discovered in Bosnia--committed
there.
Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the liberal Moscow
newspaper "Novaya gazeta," is the only journalist to have constant
access to the region. Her international stature and reputation for
honesty among the Chechens have allowed her to continue to report
to the world the brutal tactics of Russia's leaders used to quell
the uprisings. "A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya"
is her second book on this bloody and prolonged war. More than a
collection of articles and columns, "A Small Corner of Hell "offers
a rare insider's view of life in Chechnya over the past years.
Centered on stories of those caught-literally-in the crossfire of
the conflict, her book recounts the horrors of living in the midst
of the war, examines how the war has affected Russian society, and
takes a hard look at how people on both sides are profiting from
it, from the guards who accept bribes from Chechens out after
curfew to the United Nations. Politkovskaya's unflinching honesty
and her courage in speaking truth to power combine here toproduce a
powerful account of what is acknowledged as one of the most
dangerous and least understood conflicts on the planet.
Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has
struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region
declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian
withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and warlords. A
series of apartment building attacks in Moscow in 1999, allegedly
orchestrated by a rebel faction, reignited the war, which continues
to rage today. Russia has gone to great lengths to keep journalists
from reporting on the conflict; consequently, few people outside
the region understand its scale and the atrocities--described by
eyewitnesses as comparable to those discovered in Bosnia--committed
there. Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the liberal Moscow
newspaper Novaya gazeta, was the only journalist to have constant
access to the region. Her international stature and reputation for
honesty among the Chechens allowed her to continue to report to the
world the brutal tactics of Russia's leaders used to quell the
uprisings. A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya is her
second book on this bloody and prolonged war. More than a
collection of articles and columns, A Small Corner of Hell offers a
rare insider's view of life in Chechnya over the past years.
Centered on stories of those caught-literally-in the crossfire of
the conflict, her book recounts the horrors of living in the midst
of the war, examines how the war has affected Russian society, and
takes a hard look at how people on both sides are profiting from
it, from the guards who accept bribes from Chechens out after
curfew to the United Nations. Politkovskaya's unflinching honesty
and her courage in speaking truth to power combine here to produce
a powerful account of what is acknowledged as one of the most
dangerous and least understood conflicts on the planet. Anna
Politkovskaya was assassinated in Moscow on October 7, 2006. "The
murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya leaves a terrible
silence in Russia and an information void about a dark realm that
we need to know more about. No one else reported as she did on the
Russian north Caucasus and the abuse of human rights there. Her
reports made for difficult reading--and Politkovskaya only got
where she did by being one of life's difficult people."--Thomas de
Waal, Guardian
A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its
helm, from "the bravest of journalists" ("The New York Times")
Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness" (New
Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless
reporting on the war in Chechnya. Now she turns her steely gaze on
the multiple threats to Russian stability, among them President
Putin himself.
Putin's Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Politkovskaya
describes an army in which soldiers die from malnutrition, parents
must pay bribes to recover their dead sons' bodies, and conscripts
are even hired out as slaves. She exposes rampant corruption in
business, government, and the judiciary, where everything from
store permits to bus routes to court appointments is for sale. And
she offers a scathing condemnation of the ongoing war in Chechnya,
where kidnappings, extrajudicial killings, rape, and torture are
begetting terrorism rather than fighting it.
Sounding an urgent alarm, "Putin's Russia" is both a gripping
portrayal of a country in crisis and the testament of a great and
intrepid reporter.
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in
1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media
darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an
enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern
borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journalist and human-rights
activist Anna Politkovskaya disagrees strenuously with this point
of view. In her new book, she trains her steely gaze on, as she
puts at, Putin "without the rapture". From her privileged
vantage-point at the heart of Russian current affairs,
Politkovskaya reports from behind the scenes, dismantling both
Putin the man and Putin the brand name, arguing that he is a
power-hungry product of his own history in the security forces and
so unable to prevent himself from stifling dissent and other civil
liberties at every turn. After centuries of living under tyrants,
Politkovskaya argues, this is not what contemporary Russians want.
The book is, however, not simply a biography or an analysis of
Putin's presidency. Politkovskaya's writing is known for its
humanity and its passion, and her focus is on individual human
beings and their stories. As she puts it, "my book is
A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently
completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow.
Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of
December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in
late 2005, A Russian Diary is an unflinching record of the plight
of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and
corruption of Vladimir Putin's Presidency.
From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and
A Russian Diary. Until her murder in October 2006, Anna
Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta,
winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars
and, more generally, on Russian politics and state corruption.
Nothing But the Truth is a definitive collection of Anna
Politkovskaya's best writings: a lasting and inspiring book from
one fo the greatest reporters of our age.
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