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From 'meat grinder' to 'ransom': The key words that define 'Russian soldiers' daily life

Anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova has compiled an 'ethnographic dictionary of war' after analyzing some 7,000 letters retrieved from the website of the Russian human rights commissioner. Published in Russian on the independent exile media site 'Echo,' her work reveals the language and suffering of military life.