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…
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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 is sitting next to him here. Their job in the mountains of Chechnya seems rather relaxed, as there is little traffic, so that Iznaur had…
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 of his cousins died when playing with unexploded ordinace. Another relative was killed in the shelling. Later when the situation deteriorated even more, they went…
These are Rezida and her daughter (both in centre), who are both from Grozny and their friends Lena and Luba who came for a visit from Ingushetia, the neighbouring republic. Ingushetians are considered a brother nation by the Chechens, which Rezida was not tired to repeat. In fact they have…