Polygamy creeps silently through Russia’s southern outskirts. by Nabi AbdullaevMAKHACHKALA, Dagestan–Two families lost their breadwinner on the August 1998 day that the limousine carrying Islamic spiritual leader Said-Muhammad Abubakarov was blown up in the center of Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala. The shot in the head that killed Dagestani ethnic leader Magomed Khachilaev three months ago made widows of three women. Likewise, […]
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