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Russia's Military Nadir: The Meaning of the Chechen Debacle

Anatol Lieven | Jun 01, 1996
"In war the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

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North Caucasus of the Bizarre

Thomas de Waal | Nov 01, 2010
Where people think the United States is the source of Islamist violence and other problems inside Russia and on its borders.

Don't Blame Russia

Peter Lavelle | Apr 01, 2010
Western commentators insinuating Moscow is somehow at fault for the subway bombings are completely wrong.

Gracious Grozny

Anatol Lieven | Sep 18, 2008
In the second of a three part series, TNI senior editor Anatol Lieven reflects on his meetings with high-level Russian officials at the Valdai Club conference last week.
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Chechens I Used to Know

Thomas de Waal | Apr 19, 2011
The typical vision of Chechnya: a violence-filled land of terrorists fighting for independence from the Kremlin’s iron grip. The reality is a land torn between nationalism and a Russian civic identity.

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