Out of the rubble, Chechnya’s football team comes back to life as one of the only symbols of normalcy in the war-torn republicby Anna Badkhen KISLOVODSK, Russia–As a young Chechen man, Anzor Ismailov could have been anywhere on a sunny May afternoon. He could have been hiding from Russian federal troops in a makeshift bomb shelter under his apartment building […]
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