Elena Chudinova

Latest by Elena Chudinova in Chronicles

• Blog

  March 12, 2015

  Boris Nemtsov: How a Living Pawn Became a Dead King, Part II

  For now, several suspects from the Caucasus have been arrested. Let us note that all of the political murder victims of recent years—Markelov, Politkovskaya, and Nemtsov have been somehow or other tied to the Caucasus region.

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• Blog

  March 9, 2015

  Boris Nemtsov: How a Living Pawn Became a Dead King, Part I

  A generation arose and took its place in the life of Russia, which did witness Boris Nemtsov as a political heavyweight. The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, vice-premier, who was seen as an heir to Yeltsin, breathtaking ascension in his political career, and an ability to make country-wide policy—all this left Boris Nemtsov together with his youth.

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• News

  March 2015

  Islamic Terror in Paris: To Be Continued

  Muslim violence has returned to Paris, after nine years, with the murder of editorial-staff members of Charlie Hebdo. But the jihad of today looks different from the one that took place there in the fall of 2005.

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• Blog

  July 23, 2014

  QUI PRODEST?

  The Malaysian and Dutch embassies in Kiev are covered with heaps of flowers. But not a single little flower is brought in the memory of the victims of the bombings of Lugansk, which happened on the same day as the downing of flight MH17.

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• Blog

  June 18, 2014

  Slaviansk: Civilians Under Attack

  Six-year-old Polina Sladkaya became the latest lodger of the Slaviansk morgue. She was killed on June 8 by a Ukrainian mortar shell. Everyone knows that morgue workers are not distressed by the sight of dead bodies, because of a natural coping mechanism.

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• Blog

  June 9, 2014

  Slaviansk in Flames

  Fairness does not exist and it is no use looking for it. The world got into the habit of taking the wrong side.

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