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While distributing humanitarian aid in Grozny in 2000, Czech journalist Petra Procházková
conducted a wide range of interviews with women who wanted to describe to the outside world
what life in Chechnya had become. These are the women who struggled to survive and keep their
families together while their husbands or other male relatives fought first in one war against
Russia, then a second. Now, with their husbands dead, vanished or unable to leave their houses
for fear of being arrested by Russian soldiers and sent to detention camps, the burden of rebuilding
Grozny lies in the hands of these women.
Procházková presented two of these firsthand accounts for this WIDE ANGLE
personal narrative. Two women -- one Chechen, one Russian -- tell us why they've decided to live on in
the ruins of Grozny and how the attitudes of this city's Russian and Chechen residents have
changed towards each other.
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Meet Elza Duguyeva, a Chechen woman who roams the streets of Grozny with her children in search of aluminum to sell.
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Zhenya Morozova describes the hardships of living in Grozny as an elderly ethnic Russian.
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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 in the
city to help those living in the destroyed capital. During her stay, she interviewed several
women whose lives were affected by the war. The interviews will be published in a book in late
2002.
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Photo Essay - Take a walk through Chechnya's bombed-out capital, Grozny.
Timeline - Explore Chechnya's turbulent past.
Interactive Challenge - How much do you know about WTO-era China?
Interactive Map - Plot the Kurdish "problem" and Saddam's ultimate solution.
Photo Essay - See how chemical weapons killed the future of one Kurdish town.
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