You know, I always knew the war in Chechnya would come to this – children held hostage in a school – but I didn’t think it would take so long. I mean, children have been the biggest obstacles to Chechen independence for over a decade. Their repressive tactics and gross human rights abuses don’t justify [...]

Perhaps now is a good time to introduce you to my uncle, Ruben. He goes by various pseudonyms, which I won’t enumerate for his privacy’s sake. But if you meet him you will know it (at least, that’s the object of this description).
I come to this subject in a roundabout way; I was reading a [...]