Diana Markosian traveled to the Chechen capital, Grozny, to document a city transformed. These images show streets and buildings pulverized during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, and how they ...

An old woman returns to Grozny in 1995 after a battle between Chechen separatists and Russian forces had leveled much of the city. Dzhokhar Dudayev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was elected ...

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This is the year, according to an order from a president whom few dare to disappoint, that the architectural scars of war in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, will be removed. That the order has nearly ...

During the first war, I still supported our men because most of them really went to the front with some romantic notions about freedom and independence. Now I don’t believe either side.

The Interfax news agency said the document compared the deaths — 5 percent of Grozny’s 500,000 prewar population — to the per capita death rate in Poland during World War II.