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Portraits of the Paradoxical Chechen Republic

Photographer Olga Kravets documents modern life in Chechyna, a federal state of Russia, where Turkish-built skyscrapers tower over citizens and the government tortures young men if they show any sign of dissent.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/susan-meiselas-magnum-foundation-present-olga-405-v22n7

In 2009, Ramzan Kadyrov proudly announced that “peace has come to the land of Chechnya.”The head of the Chechen Republic’s rise to power started back in May 2004, when Vladimir Putin appointed him deputy prime minister of Chechnya after the death of Kadyrov’s father. Since the age of 30, he has been given free rein in his country so long as he keeps the rebels at bay.