We’re making a movie today. Running around Grozny with a camera and a tripod. Setting up the camera, almost defiantly, amidst the noisy streets, in front of the mammoth monument to Kadyrov, the assassinated former president of Chechnya, and on the bridge across the river Sunzha. We are filming houses, shops, building signs, cars, passersby, personnel of obscure “agencies” who are armed and dressed in camouflage...
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