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Surviving a Kidnapping in Chechnya

by YetAnother Test Feb 16

In 1997, Camilla Carr and Jonathan James were kidnapped and held for fourteen months in Chechnya. Speaking neither Russian nor Chechen, armed with good intentions and a car full of ...more
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Stalin's children

by YetAnother Test on 15 February 2009 | 10

I have read many sagas of Russian families, but Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews has facets that make it....read more


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The Lost Boys

by YetAnother Test on 14 February 2009 | 2

Somali born journalist Rageh Omaar and director Paul Sapin made Lost Boys, a 27- minute documentary, in four days. The film explores Somali youth inter-gang....read more


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A Palestinian journey

by YetAnother Test on 13 February 2009 | 0

Anyone familiar with the Middle East knows that Ashdod is Israel's biggest port, nearly a quarter of a million people some 40 miles north of....read more


Lasantha Wickrematunge, the editor of the Sri Lanka newspaper The Sunday Leader who was murdered on Sunday, wrote his own farewell letter days before he....read more


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The Terminal Spy

by YetAnother Test on 12 January 2009 | 0

There are some stories where even the most diligent journalism cannot answer the basics: who, what, when, where, why and how? When the New....read more


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Letters Against War, 2002

by YetAnother Test on 03 January 2009 | 0

Tiziano Terzani was the Asia correspondent for German weekly Der Spiegel for over thirty years. The Florentine journalist also wrote for Italy's respected broadsheets La....read more


We held the Frontline Club annual party and Journalism Awards on Friday 28 November. A great time was had by all. Romain Kedochim very....read more


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Somalia's Exiled Press Pack

by YetAnother Test on 01 September 2008 | 0

Speculation continues about the fate of the western journalists kidnapped with their Somali colleagues. As usual with Somalia there are lots of different theories floating....read more


White Cargo tells the story of the 300,000 plus urchins, prostitutes, criminals and those without social blemish or criminal record who were taken from the....read more


I have read many sagas of Russian families, but this one has facets that make it poignant. It is both tragedy and love story by....read more


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