 The republic of beauty |
| - This is a factory for the production of heroin and other hard drugs. It’s new - the opening ceremony was only the other day. And this plant produces automatic weapons for export. - |
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| Aldy – a case still open |
| The film we present is dedicated to the massacre in the village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000. This incident was one of the most terrible and bloody pages of the war in Chechnya.
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| Novye Aldy – before and after |
| What Russia’s military did in Novye Aldy was nothing unusual or untypical. It did not represent the height of their brutality and judged by their normal standards it was not a supremely wicked act. |
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| Novye Aldy Petition |
| A group of Russian NGOs has started an online petition addressed to Russia's Prosecutor General in connection with the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Novye Aldy. |
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| The turn of the screw |
| Suddenly there was a loud clang. The train seemed to slow down, and the coaches at the rear fell over on their side. Like matchsticks the trees on the slope lay down beneath the rapidly descending avalanche of metal.
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| Through a glass darkly |
| On the driver’s side the window came down. Vakha looked inside. The driver's face was half-concealed by a white mask. The face of the woman passenger was also obscured – by the end of a trailing headscarf.
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| Recognition |
| “We’ve fought for a long time against international terrorism. And we’ve fought for Russia’s territorial integrity. But we’ve never fought for independence. And we haven’t asked for it." |
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| Suicide attack |
| Vakha and Yusup sat behind a concrete fence near the crossroads where the “cubicle” checkpoint was, scrutinizing everyone who approached and trying to work out if they were suspicious or not. |
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