Day: October 17, 2020

  • Russia Dismisses Links to Chechen Accused of Beheading French Teacher

    Russia Dismisses Links to Chechen Accused of Beheading French Teacher

    An 18-year-old Chechen accused of beheading a teacher near his school in a Paris suburb received asylum in France and had no links to Russia, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday. “This crime has no relation to Russia because this person had lived in France for the past 12 years,” the spokesman for the Russian…

  • East and West Meet Over Borshch Deliciously

    East and West Meet Over Borshch Deliciously

    I love soup season, and where I live, this lasts about nine months of the year.  As you may imagine, borshch is in heavy rotation in our household, but as I’ve written before, no two pots of borshch are ever the same. There is no hard and fast recipe for borshch; it varies depending on…

  • Suspect in French Teacher Beheading was Chechen, Born in Moscow

    Suspect in French Teacher Beheading was Chechen, Born in Moscow

    The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on Saturday. Five more people have been detained over the murder on Friday outside Paris, including the parents of…