Being Chechen

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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 BBC Russian journalists Famil Ismailov and Mark Grigoriyan. WILD TIMES IN NEPAL BBC 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 BBC 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 BBC 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 BBC 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 - BBC 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