![]() Even more disturbing is her chilling, absurdist depiction of the regime of Moscow-backed Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, which combines torture and disappearances with a saccharine cult of personality. These include a kindly childless woman who runs Grozny's last orphanage a Russian soldier suffering from brain damage caused by a rebel mine survivors of Stalin's expulsion of the Chechens to Kazakhstan in WWII and a family whose daughter joined an Islamist sect and died in the spectacular terrorist takeover of a Moscow theater. ) includes them in a gallery of portraits drawn from her reporting-sometimes undercover-from the region. Norwegian journalist Seierstad ( The Bookseller of Kabul ![]() In this searing journey through a traumatized Chechnya, two children orphaned by the civil war-Timur, a violent street urchin, and his sister Liana, a waif molested by her uncle who becomes a kleptomaniac-symbolize their country's agony, abandonment and lingering dysfunctions. ![]()
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