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Panos Pictures - Stories - First Chechen War-25 Years On

11 December 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the First Chechen War. Though by no means the only conflict to beset the imploding Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the War in Chechnya came to epitomise the chaos and wanton destruction of the former superpower's demise. It pitted a poorly trained conscript army against driven and passionate independence fighters who were picking up from where generations left off in the 19th century. Being waged within the borders of Russia proper, the war also appalled a shocked and disorientated population witnessing Russians killing fellow citizens.