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 ...

Firefights echoed across the plains on the outskirts of Grozny on Friday, evidence that a Russian move on the Chechen capital may be in the works if not already under way. The rattle of machine-gun… ...

Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Dresden. The ruins of Grozny, the war-scarred capital of Chechnya, have been compared to all three. Blackened, fissured and sad, for over a decade they have stood almost ...

SAMARA, Russia — Surviving officers of Russia’s most crippled regiment believe they know what went wrong when their men took horrendous casualties in Chechnya: They contend that Russia&… ...

As hoods go, Grozny definitely qualifies as one of the meanest. Growing up during the Chechen war, young rappers like 27-year-old Yusup Nakhmudov, have seen friends blown apart by bombs. Others ...

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.

About the Author. In 2000, Czech journalist Petra Procházková went to Grozny to report on the war for the Czech newspaper, LIDOVE NOVINY. She later put her journalistic career on hold to remain ...