Shattered cement and ghostly streets in the Chechen city of Grozny have been replaced by glitzy shops, soccer stadiums and reduced violence.
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A destroyed apartment building the Zavodskoi region in Grozny, Chechnya
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A Chechen family having a meal together.
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Milana, 19, surrounded by students on her wedding day.
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A friend helps a bride out of limousine her family rented for the wedding. Her wedding cost 500,000 rubles ($17,000), an average price in modern-day Chechnya.
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Girls must wear headscarves as part of the dress code.
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First graders at school in Grozny.
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Grozny City, a complex of high-rise towers seen through the central mosque in downtown Grozny, Chechnya
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Chechen women at a salon, one of hundreds, popping up in downtown Grozny.
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A Chechen woman with her kid at home
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The centre of Grozny
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Chechen women at a luxury store in Grozny City, a shopping center in the capital of Grozny.
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The centre of Grozny
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Military guards at a check point in Itum Kale, Chechnya.
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A couple on a date at a local park in Grozny.
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Chechen youth smoke hookah at a billiard club in Grozny, Chechnya. Hookah is now outlawed in the Islamic republic.
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