In September 1999, French reporter Anne Nivat wrapped herself in layers of thick skirts, wool sweaters and long scarves to pass for a Chechen woman because, as she put it, “women are rarely noticed in ...

According to local press reports, authorities interrogated Anne Nivat for four hours on 10 February and informed her that she had violated the status of her business visa by meeting with the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French journalist Anne Nivat about the political situation in her country, where just a quarter of citizens say they approve the president's job performance. Several ...

After the Russians denied her press access to Chechnya, she disguised herself as a peasant and snuck across the border. For six months she followed the war, traveling with the underground rebels and ...

Moscow correspondent for the French newspaper Libération. Her book, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya (Public Affairs, 2001), tells of how she managed to do ...