I'm reading Yulia Latynina's latest novel now - The Land of War: Dar al-Harb - and it's a pretty hair-raising experience.
But I guess I'd recommend it to people like Vanessa Redgrave - those idealistic people who seem to regard Ahmed Zakaev & Co. as some poor but proud mistreated pets that are acting on behalf of the rest of those poor but proud mistreated pets.
I wonder if this book ever gets translated into English.
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Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow wrote about Latynina the novelist back in 2005 - here.
You’re right. The West should distinguish the Chechen people, to whom “mistreated” applies historically, from certain members of the exiled Chechen leadership, to whom “pets” applies, based on intelligence reports.
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