Out of the rubble, Chechnya’s football team comes back to life as one of the only symbols of normalcy in the war-torn republic by 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 […]

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