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The Image of Chechen Separatists in the Polish Media

2021; Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek; Volume: 50; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15804/ppsy202120

0208-7375

Kamil Pietrasik,

Language and Culture

Chechnya is a Russian region striving to be proclaimed independent from the Soviet Union and then Russia.Still, de facto, it never did.Chechnya has been and continues to be an area that intrigues and interests researchers all over the world.This place has a vast, researched, and not fully explained genealogy and martyrdom, which many researchers and experts mention from time to time.However, due to the end of hostilities and the appearance of new ones in the first decade of the 21 st century, there are not many books and publications about Chechnya.In Poland, new scientific books on Chechnya have not been on the market for some time.However, with the book's publication in question, this trend will change.There will be many experts and scientific moving monographs on Chechnya.Consequently, a short review of the book (from series Biblioteka Azji i Pacyfiku) devoted to Chechnya or Chechen terrorism in Poland was proposed.The author made a selection in the newspapers appearing daily in Poland.Because both Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita devoted a lot in the 1990s and 2000s remarks and places to Chechnya and terrorism, the authors were groups of Chechen fighters.The selected period of the analyzed articles is not accidental because 1996 was when the First Chechen War ended, and 2011 as the author pointed out, "for the last quite loud attack in January 2011 the year of the attack at the airport in Moscow (...)" (p. 7).It is probably about the attack at the airport, Domodedovo.However, the author briefly mentioned that one could attribute the attack at Domodedovo airport as this "quite loud attack".Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the work was divided into four parts.