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Timur's first memory was the sound of Russian bombs smashing Grozny. At age one his father, a Chechen resistance fighter, was killed in a rocket attack. At age three his mother died. At age five, when the second Chechen war started, he and his grandparents lived in a cellar for months to hide from the bombardment. At age seven he was sent back to Grozny to live with an uncle, where he and a long-lost half-sister were savagely abused and forced to beg on the streets. At age 11 Timur ran away to live in a rubbish dump, strangling pigeons for food. Eventually he was taken in by Hadijat, a local woman who with her husband runs an unofficial home for Chechnya's lost children. Locals know her simply as “the angel of Grozny”.
Thurday 15 May 2008
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The memoirs of the UN's former chief war-crimes prosecutor are generating lurid headlines, but its true value lies in what it will tell historians and what it reveals about the tensions between politics and justice.
Monday 21 April 2008
Stephen Wall, a man with the ear of three UK premiers, by turn attacks and defends British attitudes towards the EU while arguing that the UK can now feel “very comfortable” in the EU.
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Pointing the finger makes people less likely to act; aviation is unfairly cast as climate villain.
Wednesday 9 April 2008
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The conviction of a former member of the European Economic and Social Committee for expenses fraud strengthens the case for a European public prosecutor.
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