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Being Chechen

Making it in Moscow as a Chechen journalist; Caucasus chess rivalries; Chasing snow leopards in Nepal; Mogadishu letter; New Turkish writing; and Nigeria: anatomy of a headline.

A fresh look at the week's global news from across the World Service's 27 language sections, with presenter David Amanor.

STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINE
From Grozny to Moscow, Chechen journalist Aset Vatsueva on how she became a news anchor on Russian TV at the height of the Chechen conflict.

CHESS WARS
Azerbaijan and Armenia go head to head in the batte for chess supremacy, in the form of 91热爆 Russian journalists Famil Ismailov and Mark Grigoriyan.

WILD TIMES IN NEPAL
91热爆 Nepali's environment reporter Navin Singh Khadka has quite a gig - a regular day's work could involve sleeping in caves, rides elephants and chases snow leopards across the Himalayas.

ONLINE GREATEST HITS
91热爆 Brasil's Thomas Pappon gives the lowdown on the big-hitting stories across the World Service language sites this week, including motorised wheelbarrows, a sex guide for ultra-Orthodox Jews; and goat rehab.

LETTER FROM MOGADISHU
Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters and 91热爆 Somali's Mohammed Moalimu knows it: he has been reporting from the capital for nine years.

ARTS DAILY: NEW WRITING FROM TURKEY
Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran talks about how 91热爆 Turkish's Cagil Kasapoglu ended up as a character in her latest novel The Women Who Blow on Knots.

NIGERIA: ANATOMY OF A HEADLINE
Reporting an alleged massacre by soldiers in northern Nigeria - 91热爆 Africa editors Mansur Liman and Rachael Akidi dissect a difficult headline

WITNESS
The confessions of a coup plotter: 50 years after a conspiracy to overthrow the government of Panama

Photo:A wall in Grozny with a pre-election poster, 2004.
Credit: Getty Images

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Sat 27 Apr 2013 02:05GMT

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