These are the wives and children of two Chechen brothers (+ 1 Russian tourist) who were on holidays near the village of Nikhaloy in the mountains of Chechnya. They left their war torn homeland 17 years ago and moved to Yakutsk in north-eastern Siberia, where they are working in gold…
Monat: Donnerstag, 13UTCThu, 13 Jun 2019 13:04:47 +0000 13. Juni 2019
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 fingers at the sunlit mountaintops around the valley, he would explain where the Russian and the rebel positions were during the war. He believes that…
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 during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus. In Jordan his family lived in a small but very intimate Chechen community. Nevertheless, they always wanted to…
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 groom. Most of her family lives in Chechnya, but she also has a nephew who is working in Moscow. As Chechen tradition prescribes she was…