Lana Estemirova grew up in Chechnya during the 1990s. In this moving and sometimes funny memoir, she tells the story of her childhood, living with her mother in a warzone.

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Mr Litvinenko had recently been investigating the murder of his friend, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, another critic of the Putin government. Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated the ...

Screenwriter Eric Poppen chatted about writing the movie “Words of War,” which was released via Rolling Pictures. “Words of War” is from two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn (who serves as an executive ...

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“The entrance is well adapted for murder,” Anna Politkovskaya wrote in 2003, “with dark corners in which you are your own rescue service.” She was describing the building in which a fellow ...

The Kremlin has denied any involvement. Mr Litvinenko had recently been investigating the murder of his friend, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, another critic of the Putin government. Russian ...

The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War ...