Lithuania Opens Door to Gay Chechens Fleeing Persecution, While U.S. Slams It Shut

Staff / Truthdig May 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 )

Chechnya Authorities Reportedly Detained and Tortured 100 Gay Men

Emma Niles / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Syrian Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished Anything in a Year of Bombing?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Oct 1, 2016 Russian military advisers have been withdrawn, the Syrian Army HQ has no Russian advisory staff and there is little coordination on the battlefield.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 )

Moscow Court Charges Two Men With Boris Nemtsov’s Murder

Staff / Truthdig Mar 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 )

Triumph of the Immigrant American Spirit: Meb Keflezighi and the Boston Marathon

Juan Cole / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Fundamentally American Activities

Lena Herzog / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Is Putin a Villain for Refusing to ‘Play Ball’ With the West?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 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 )

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 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 )

The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 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 )

The Culture of Preconception

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Chechnya Expert

Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen Apr 24, 2013 Dig deeper

Updated: Bombing Suspect Captured Alive

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 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 )