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Articles marked Anna NeistatAnna Neistat is emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch and the author of many reports on Chechnya. All names in the article have been changed to protect witnesses’ identities. From the London Review dated 6 July 2006DiaryWherever you look in Grozny there are gaping shell-holes in the walls, crumbling balconies, empty window frames, and doors so pockmarked by bullets that you can see right through them. When I went back this spring, however, the central avenue in the city, called Prospect Pobedy, looked strikingly different. The pavement had been mended, the buildings were freshly painted and new windows had been put in. Here at last was tangible backing for Russia’s claim that the situation in Chechnya is returning to normal, and that reconstruction is underway. [ read more . . . ] Search the web for Anna Neistat: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archiveDiary: In Chechnya · 6 July 2006 |
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