120 years after the publication of Anton Chekhov's "Sakhalin Island," photographer Oleg Klimov retraced Chekhov’s steps and to assess its modern-day state. It's beautiful, if you like bleak.
It was two female suicide bombers who reportedly detonated belts in Moscow yesterday. Female suicide bombers have struck there before. Professor Mia Bloom teaches at Penn State and is writing a book on female suicide bombers.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the Moscow subway just before eight o'clock this morning ? a time when the city is busiest with commuters. Chechen rebels are believed to be responsible for the attack, which has left at least 37 people dead.
The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya. Anchor Marco Werman talks with journalist Anna Badkhen.
Anchor Laura Lynch speaks with Allison Gill of Human Rights Watch in Russia, about yesterday's murder of Russian human rights activist, Natalya Estemirova. Estemirova was abducted yesterday near her home in Chechnya's capital Grozny and later found dead.
Natalya Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist, was kidnapped in the Chechen capital of Grozny and found dead of gunshot wounds. Joining The Takeaway is Dimitri Babitch, political journalist of the Russian news agency Rio Novosti.
Russia's war against Islamic militants in Chechnya went on for years. Though Moscow claimed victory and calm has returned, there are signs the battle isn't over. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes explains.
Russia announced today it is ending its ten-year military crackdown in Chechnya, claiming stability had returned to the region torn apart by two wars since the fall of communism. The World's Jeb Sharp reports.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, about the current conditions in Chechnya as Russia officially ended its ten-year Russian military campaign there.