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Kalash, as he is called by his friends, is a musician, poet and lumberjack, chopping wood at new resource exploitation sites for Gazprom in Western…

This troupe of young dancers in classic Caucasian attire are doing shows at old Soviet style sanatoriums in the traditional Russian spa towns of Piatigorsk…

Hamzat and Khambek are both Chechen anti-terrorist fighters at the rapid reaction taskforce GBR. I met them at a wedding in Gudermes, where they are…

Nikita is from Ulyanovsk, the birth city of Lenin. Here he is standing in front of the memorial complex dedicated to the communist leader and…

Barzani is a Kurd living in Saratov, where he is working as a waiter in one of the city’s finest Uzbek restaurants. His parents were…