Reddit reviews The Dirty War

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/20/top-10-books-on-vladimir-putins-russia
  
• http://time.com/4672142/russia-books/
  
• Anna Politkovskaya's A Dirty War, A Small Corner of Hell, Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy, A Russian Diary (Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006 by one of Kaydrov's goons as a birthday present for Putin)

I've enjoyed the following, not being from that part of the world, culture or religion you'd have to take my insight with a grain of salt. There doesn't seem to be that much information about that part of the world, one of the reasons I find it so fascinating. It's fairly invisible. There is typically one viewpoint from this media, red team or blue team, nothing seems to be that unbiased. I found "The Oath" to be the most informative and interesting.

BOOKS-

• The Oath https://www.amazon.com/Oath-Surgeon-Under-Fire/dp/0802714048
  
  
• Inferno in Chechyna https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611687373/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Young Stalin https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400096138/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Soviet Mafia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312071353/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• My Jihad
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585745650/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Man without a Face
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594486514/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Blowing Up Russia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594032017/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The World's Most Dangerous Places
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060011602/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Dirty War
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1860468977/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Merchant Of Death
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470048662/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Urban Guerrilla Warfare
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813124379/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• ANYTHING by Misha Glenny (althought about Former Yugoslavia Mainly)
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400044111/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140257713/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140172866/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  DOCS-
  
  
• Letter To Anna
  
• Chechnya The Dirty War
  
• cena prawdy "truth"
  
• immortal fortress
  
• From Beirut to Bosnia (good as well)
  
• Children of Beslan
  
• Terror in Moscow
  
• Nedoverie "Disbelief"