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Chechen Fighters, Contact Sheet, Grozny, Chechen Republic (Russia), 1995

Photo by Christopher Morris / VII. Chechen Fighters, Contact Sheet, Grozny, Chechen Republic (Russia), 1995.

From the photographer: ”At that moment in time there was not a more dangerous place on earth. Here in the final days of defending the Presidential Palace from an all out Russian assault. This Chechen fighter makes a break to escape out the front door of the palace, while his colleague covers him."

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