The crushing of Chechnya's aspirations for independence:

Philippe Alcoy, Tony Woods — 2020-11-04T08:05:56Z

“The Chechen national movement emerged during perestroika, a time of real political ferment across the USSR, when a huge variety of ideas and currents that had been suppressed surged into the open. In a sense, nationalism provided a coherence and focus that was otherwise lacking in this new political landscape. But in the Chechen case, the trauma of the deportations added an urgency to the nationalist imaginary: many of the leaders of the movement had been born in exile, and were committed above all to ensuring the same disaster never befell their people again. Sovereignty became the means for achieving that.”

- IV550 - November 2020 / Russia, Chechnya

A martyred people

Xavier Rousselin — 2001-03-10T00:00:00Z

In the suburbs of Grozny, not a single building has been spared, although only some of them have been completely demolished. The closer you get to the center of town, the worse the level of destruction. The centre of Grozny is a field of ruins.

- IV329 - March 2001 / Chechnya

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The crushing of Chechnya's aspirations for independence:

A martyred people