Yuri Kozyrev: Photographing 15 Years of Chechnya’s Troubled History | TIME

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Yuri Kozyrev: 15 Years of Chechnya’s Troubled History

The photographer has witnessed Chechnya’s dramatic evolution

via Time: http://time.com/3927017/yuri-kozyrev-photographing-20-years-of-chechnyas-troubled-history/

When they returned to the base, it was clear from the glares of the troops that they all blamed Kozyrev for the fiasco, he says, and Gen. Otrakovsky advised the photographer to leave in the morning. “He said it may not be safe anymore for me to stay among his men,” Kozyrev remembers.