Kategorie: Faces of the East

Adlan and Iznaur are Chechen road police officers, but here they are posing as Miami Vice beach police. There is no beach in Chechnya, but…

Elmira is a guide at the Akhmad Kadyrov museum in Grozny. It is eulogising the first president of the modern Russian-backed Chechen Republic, around whom…

“Masked Russian soldiers would just grab people from the street at checkpoints, take them away and shoot them. Just if they had a beard, if…

Zelim Khan is a security guard at the entrance of a short hiking trail leading to an impressive waterfall near the village of Nkihaloy in…