Marina Akhmedova is a Moscow-based journalist and writer. She is staff reporter at the popular Russky Reporter magazine. Her stories focus on social and cultural issues. She writes regularly on North Caucasus. Marina is an author of three popular novels. Her last novel ‘Khadijah, Notes of a Death Girl’ was nominated for the Russian Booker, Russia’s most prestigious literary award.
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Published in: oDRGod is your refugeA monastery near Moscow has opened its doors to the city’s homeless — in exchange for food and shelter, the men help...
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Published in: oDRThe shepherds of SevukhThe Avars are an ancient people living in the mountains of Dagestan (North Caucasus). Many of them are shepherds....
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Published in: oDRSnap goes the CrocodileMarina Akhmedova spent four days in the company of drug users in Yekaterinburg, central Russia, and was met with a...
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Published in: oDRHijab WarsIn Dagestan, where government forces are pitched against insurgents, and the official priesthood against the...