Kategorie: Russland

Gelani is from Shatoy, a small town in the mountains of Chechnya. During Soviet times he served in the Red Army in Turkmenistan. Pointing his…

Ahmad (36) is an ethnic Chechen who was born in Jordan. He told me how his ancestors moved there 150 years ago due to persecution…

Sulban was attending a traditional Chechen wedding in Gudermes, one of the bigger towns in Russia’s Chechen Republic. She is a distant relative of the…

Iznaur (right) is a road police officer in Itum-Kale in the Argun valley of Chechnya. He is the right hand of his boss Nurdi, who…

Abubaker from Grozny remembers both Chechen wars very well. During the first one he was hiding in cellars from artillery fire with his family. One…