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Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services.

Faranak Amidi presents global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC’s 40 Language Services

The Fifth Floor: Being Chechen

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26/04/2013

Being Chechen

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Being Chechen

A Grozny-born journalist on her career in Moscow at the height of the Chechen war

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 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

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