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  Chechnya 2008
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A student stands in the school yard in front of a mural depicting the image of Chechen presiden Ramzan Kadyrov after the 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.
A lit-up portrait of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on the wall of Grozny airport building. The airport was recently restored and started functioning with three daily flights to Moscow and back. The slogan reads
Young men walk in front of the new mosque under construction named after the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, father of the current president Ramzan Kadyrov, in the center of Grozny.
A woman pushes a swing with her son in the yard of a new residential buidling recently erected in Grozny. There is no heating, running water or gas supply inside yet. But people are already moving in. They praise president Ramzan Kadyrov and say that they are happy to have their own roof over their heads after a decade of living in shelters. The poster with Ramzan Kadyrov image on the wall reads:
A family of Zaira Dovletbayeva, 27, mother of four, has just moved in an apartment in a new residential buidling recently erected in Grozny. There is no heating, running water or gas supply inside yet. But people are already moving in. Like many other new tennants Zaira praises president Ramzan Kadyrov and says that they are happy to have their own roof over their heads after a decade of living in shelters.
Residential houses in Grozny repaired and finished with white siding. A poster with Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov shaking hands with Russian president Vladimir Putin reads:
In the city of Grozny where only a few years ago rare cars were struggling with broken roads and a new and only traffic light was a landmark and general attraction in town now taxi cabs are in abundance same as traffic lights and even traffic jams.
Portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin and the late Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, father of the current Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on display at the recently rebuilt and now funct
The center of Grozny now looks like a huge construction site, piles of construction materials, construction equipment and holes and communication trenches in the ground.
   
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