Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2017
Gay Russian men are attempting to flee their country amid a wave of detention, torture and killing in the country's southern region of Chechnya. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Emma Niles / TruthdigApr 11, 2017
The State Department and rights groups have called for an investigation into the alleged state-sponsored roundup. The Russian republic's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov (pictured, right, with Vladimir Putin), denies the reports. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Juan Cole / Informed CommentOct 1, 2016
Russian military advisers have been withdrawn, the Syrian Army HQ has no Russian advisory staff and there is little coordination on the battlefield. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMar 9, 2015
On Sunday, nine days after Russian activist Boris Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin, a Moscow court charged two suspects with his murder. The back story about their possible motives and ties is still under examination. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigApr 22, 2014
On Monday, Boston responded with its vigorous spirit of community and transcendence to the cowardly terrorism that marred the marathon in 2013, coming out in record numbers for this year's event. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Lena Herzog / TruthdigApr 2, 2014
This is about men doing away with those general laws to which they themselves will need recourse in their day of adversity, how moderation became mistaken for cowardice, extremism for courage, and how words lost their meaning.
This is about men doing away with those general laws to which they themselves will need recourse in their day of adversity, how moderation became mistaken for cowardice, extremism for courage, and how words lost their meaning. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 31, 2014
For some reason the Russian president wasn't considered evil during the war in Chechnya; the casual American style came about thanks to college students; meanwhile, Jimmy Carter thinks expanding Medicare would have been better than the Affordable Care Act. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Susan Zakin / TruthdigMay 21, 2013
It's likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was just another angry young man in our brave new America, a burgeoning dystopia where mass murder suddenly seems like a weekly occurrence. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 18, 2013
Chechen scholar Thomas Goltz gives a historical primer on the centuries old culture and struggle that shaped the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigApr 25, 2013
The political response to the Boston Marathon bombings suggests that we live in an age of shrink-wrapped, prepackaged opinions. When something new comes along, we hasten to squeeze it into whatever frameworks we were carrying around with us a day, a month or a year before. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 20, 2013
Update: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody Friday night in Watertown, Mass., after he was discovered hiding in a boat parked in the driveway of a home. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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