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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…

These are the wives and children of two Chechen brothers (+ 1 Russian tourist) who were on holidays near the village of Nikhaloy in the…

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…