Sword or Samovar
List of Sword or Samovar articles
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ABDULA MAGOMEDOV/AFP/Getty Images The Deadliest Village in Russia
At journey's end, reaching the heart of the North Caucasus's Islamist insurgency -- and getting arrested.
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ABDULA MAGOMEDOV/AFP/Getty Images Dangerous Graft
As the journey nears its end, a look at how samovar politics, mixed with rampant corruption, have helped turn Dagestan into the most deadly of Russia's North Caucasus republics.
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Musa Sadulayev The Islamic Republic of Chechnya
Why is the Kremlin-imposed leader of this republic sounding so much like the militants he's meant to be cracking down on?
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KAZBEK BASAYEV/AFP/Getty Images A Fear of Three Letters
Traveling through Ingushetia, a republic where people are more frightened of Russia's shadowy security forces than the Islamist militants.
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Tom Parfitt The Secret History of Beslan
From the outside, the violence in the Caucasus looks like a religious war or an independence struggle. In this installment from a monthlong travel diary, our correspondent finds that in North Ossetia, ethnic tension adds a deadly twist.
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Tom Parfitt Islamists on Trial
On a monthlong trip through Russia's bloody southern republics, our correspondent visits a nearly deserted courtroom looking for hints as to why the violence here has taken on a new level of viciousness.
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STR/AFP/Getty Images Blood Relations
The families of suspected Islamist guerrillas in the North Caucasus have always faced harassment from Russian security forces. Now a shadowy vigilante group has started targeting them as well.
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KURBAN LABAZANOV/AFP/Getty Images Sword or Samovar
The first installment from a monthlong journey through Russia's killing zone.
