Evenings with Polish Reporters: Wojciech Jagielski’s Chechen War

What links the ongoing war in Ukraine to the Russian-Chechen conflict? The leading contemporary Polish foreign correspondent Wojciech Jagielski has covered armed conflicts in Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as a journalist and is a long-time observer of developments in the post-Soviet space. After publishing his Praying for Rain in Czech (2018), publishers Absynt are now bringing out a translation of Towers of Stone, which is focused on Chechnya. The new book explores not only the conflict with Russia but also its cultural-social causes, as well as offering a unique opportunity to understand contemporary Chechen-Russian relations.