Chechnya 2008
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  Chechnya 2008
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Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov walks on a suspension bridge at his presidential residence estate in Gudermes.
Cadets of the Chechen police school march and shout
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian presidential envoy Vladimir Ustinov, left, visit a new Lada assembley line in the town of Argun.
A guard stands next to new mosque under construction named after the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, father of the current president Ramzan Kadyrov.
Tamara Mumayeva, 53, a hospital worker, still lives with her three children in a destroyed house in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. She connects all her hopes with Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov.
A Last School Bell ceremony marking the end of the school season is held at a recently opened new school repaired and funded by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov administration. When the school which is officially called the Presidential Lyceum, first opened last year it immediately became the most prestigeous and popular school in the entire Chechnya.
Despite a large-scale construction and renovation effort in Grozny, many people still live in semi-ruined or seriously damaged houses like this one in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. Zinaida Kasumova, 60, has to carry a dozen of buckets of water a day from a nearby house for cooking, washing and flushing the toilet.
A monument to the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, father of the current president Ramzan Kadyrov overlooking the new mosque under construction, named after the slain president, in the center of Grozny.
Two Chechen men looking at a gas torch near the city of Grozny. Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov is planning to build a new oil refinery in Chechnya to process the Chechen oil.
   
  All photographs on this site were shot by Sergei L. Loiko. designed by : Impress Vision