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Russia: Polina Zherebtsova's 1999 Chechen Diary

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 @ 12:46 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Russia
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Ethnicity, History, Human Rights, Law, Media, War & Conflict
Languages:: Russian, English

Jost A Mon translates the intro and excerpts from Polina Zherebtsova’s 1999 Chechen Diary that were published in Bolshoi Gorod (RUS) in Sept. 2009.

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# 2009-10-21 at 18:01 pm
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# 2009-11-3 at 6:02 am

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