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Mon 02 Feb 2010Chronicle of a brutal but largely ignored war zone
BOOK OF THE DAY:Terror in Chechnya. by Emma Gilligan, Princeton University Press, 288 pp, £24.95
WITHOUT TROUBLING the world’s headline writers, more than 30 people were shot dead in the last month in the Russian Caucasus, a region of extreme beauty and danger between the shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian. They died in gun battles and ambushes that erupt every day in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, mainly Muslim republics that present Russia with what President Dmitry Medvedev has called its greatest domestic challenge.
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