Chechenya

Yahoo has an interesting piece about Chechen Journalism students taking classes in the rubble of their college.

"It was such a shock when the war first started, but I got tired of being scared and it turned into complete indifference," says psychology major Zina Dunoeva. "Even the death didn't scare me anymore. I didn't like to sit in the cellar during the bombing because I couldn't breathe. It was damp and full of mosquitoes. I was going to keep a diary and write down everything that was happening to me, but I finally decided not to because the war was so dirty. I decided to close that book and not look back anymore, and only look ahead."

also this interesting article about an Artists life in the Ruins of Grozny