FOREWORD
MY COUNTRY’S ARMY AND ITS MOTHERS
No. U-729343: FORGOTTEN ON THE BATTLEFIELD
FIFTY-FOUR SOLDIERS, OR RUNNING HOME TO MOM
A FEW SHORTER STORIES
OUR NEW MIDDLE AGES, OR WAR CRIMINALS OF ALL THE RUSSIAS
STALIN WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US
THE PRECEDENT OF COLONEL BUDANOV
TANYA, MISHA, LENA, AND RINAT: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Tanya
Misha and Lena
Rinat
HOW TO MISAPPROPRIATE PROPERTY WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT
FEDULEV
HOW IT STARTED
THE FORCES OF LAW AND ORDER
LIQUOR WARS
THE UNTOUCHABLES
THE NEW DEAL
KACHKANAR
THE URALS JUDICIARY: THE MOST CORRUPT IN THE WORLD?
AN IMPORTANT DETAIL OF RUSSIAN COURT PROCEDURE
MORE STORIES FROM THE PROVINCES
THE OLD MAN FROM IRKUTSK
KAMCHATKA: THE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
OLD LADIES AND NEW RUSSIANS
NORD-OST: THE LATEST TALE OF DESTRUCTION
THE FIFTH ONE
No. 2251: UNIDENTIFIED
SIRAZHDI, YAKHA, AND THEIR FRIENDS
AKAKY AKAKIEVICH PUTIN II
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Also by Anna Politkovskaya
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