Chechnya -DECEMBER 1999: The Chechen refugees look through the window of the bus on the border with Ingushetia. Chechens fled to neighbouring Ingushetia since the 2nd Chechen war started in 1999.
TSENTOROI, CHECHNYA-DECEMBER 16, 1999: Oil refinery storage destroyed during the first Chechen war.
Grozny, Chechnya-03/2002. Burning Oil Raffinery at the outskirst of town. Russian soldiers at a nearby checkpoint target pratice at the abandonned factories
TSENTOROI, CHECHNYA-DECEMBER 16, 1999: Russian marines repel an attack by Chechen rebels after they were caught in an ambush near Tsentoroi, 45 km (28 miles) southeast of Grozny.
TSENTOROI, CHECHNYA-DECEMBER 16, 1999: Russian marines help their wounded fellow soldier after they were caught in an ambush near Tsentoroi, 45 km (28 miles) southeast of Grozny.
Urus-Martan, Chechnya, November 1999. Chechen citizens (two women and a child) that were trying to escape the town of Urus-Martan during its seige by the federal forces. General Shamanov (in the middle) ordered to blow up this car several minutes before the scene - out of suspicion that there might be guerilla fighters escaping.
TSENTOROI, CHECHNYA-DECEMBER 16, 1999: Russian marines help their wounded fellow soldier after they were caught in an ambush near Tsentoroi, 45 km (28 miles) southeast of Grozny.
Argun valley, Chechnya, February 2000. Russian soldier on the front line.
Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya, October 1999.
Chechen girl gets treatment at the hospital.
Grozny, Chechnya. 01/2000. The sign on the wall written by Russian soldiers says: Welcome to the hell. Second part.
Grozny, Chechnya, January 2000. Entering downtown Grozny in the middle of the day - after the bombardment by the Russian army. After entering Chechnya in October, Russian forces slowly closed in around the capital Grozny. By December they had encircled the city, which they stormed on the 25th.
Grozny, Chechnya. 02/2002. Some few remaining civilians live in the ruins of their houses in Grozny. There is no running water or electricity. "Lijudi" or "people" is written on the door in a vain hope to have the mercy of looting Russian soldiers.
Grozny, Chechnya. 01/2000 Destruction in the city center.
Russia GROZNY-CHECHNYA- 03 2001: The funeral at the Chechen cemetry.
Grozny, Chechnya 02/2000. Grozny
Grozny, Chechnya- January,05 2000: OMON (Russian Militia special forces) fighters playing draughts
Grozny, Chechnya. 03/2002. More then a dozen civilians where heavily injured when a Russian Army APC ran into a bus with Chechen civilians in Grozny.
Grozny, Cnechnya-March, 20, 2001: Vyacheslav Baklashov, invalid at the home for aged people, in the room in which he lived with his wife before the war in Grozny.
RUSSIA. Grozny, Chechnya. 02/2002. House of the Blind. Oktyabrsky Rayon. Totally abandonned by any sort of State Welfare a dozen blind survivours of the wars in Grozny live together in the remains of the former "House of the Blind." Extremly sensitive to noise they are particularilt traumatised from the shootig and bombing. Though, most say they are happy to be unable to see the destruction
Grozny, Chechnya, January 2000. Dead man in Grozny.
rGROZNY, CHECHNYA- FEBRUARY 2000: Russian soldier in Grozny.
Grozny, Chechnya, February 2000. A Russian woman inside of the destroyed Orthodox church in Grozny.
Argun valley, Chechnya, February 2000. Soldiers of the Russian federal army sleeping in their barracks.
Grozny, Chechnya. 03/2002. A Chechen girl with the balloons in Grozny.
Chechnya, silhouette of refugees at refugee camp year 2000
