Grozny

She had few illusions about the Soviet regime, but she did not like the sight of a crowd vandalising a statue of Lenin in Grozny either.

When he learnt that Hadji Murad had arrived, Petrov, who had heard already that he was in Grozny, was not in the least surprised.

A Russian man, an evacuee from the Chechen Capital Grozny, reaches out for a final pat of his dog, Jan.

The long and scathing statement said Terek Grozny had never looked so hopeless.

Critics acknowledge that Kadyrov has presided over the republic's spectacular reconstruction, with much of war-smashed Grozny rebuilt.

Authorities say two police officers and a government worker were killed in the attack in the Chechen capital, Grozny.

Another Grozny resident says gratefully that Mr Kadyrov's men repaired all the battle-smashed windows in his neighbourhood.

On July 15th at 8. 30am, as she left her flat in Grozny, Natalia Estemirova was forced into a white Lada.

Grozny, Chechnya's capital, was all but obliterated; Russia reassumed power and installed a puppet leader.

Before the first war started, Yeltsin's defence minister boasted that Grozny would be taken in two hours.

Since 2000, Estemirova had been working in Grozny for the Russian human-rights organisation Memorial.

The Russians bombarded Grozny constantly for weeks, killing mainly the civilians who were still trapped inside.

A Chechen man carrying his belongings out from a burning house in Grozny, in an undated photo.

Chechen volunteer plays a piano in one of the Russian-bombed main streets of Grozny, Chechnya, in 1998.

At a time when the world stopped listening to Chechnya's woes, Estemirova stayed on in Grozny.

Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, was a predominantly Russian city.

Six people were killed when Islamist militants stormed the Chechen parliament building in Grozny.

Here, a Chechen soldier poses over a toppled statue of Lenin in October 1991 in Grozny, Chechnya's capital.

In Grozny's Kadyrov Square a young man complains that there is no work outside the government and security services.

Witnesses said she'd been kidnapped outside her home in the Chechencapital Grozny on Wednesday morning.

A man fills canisters with water at a dilapidated housing estate in the Chechen capital of Grozny October 8, 2006.

He led the disastrous storming of Grozny while drunk after celebrating his birthday on January 1st.

Some 200 people were evacuated from the Grozny area on Saturday, 21 by Russian forces with the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Russia's onslaught on the Chechen city of Grozny in the mid-1990s is reckoned to have killed some 20, 000 civilians.

She returned to Grozny in September 2008.

Between 1995 and '96, I covered the first two wars in Chechnya from inside Grozny.

Every day a queue of women would turn up at her office, just off Grozny's main Putin Avenue.

air raid when he left his shelter to fetch some water, in Grozny on March 31,