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Article: War in Russia.(Russian troops fight rebels in Chechnya)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- January 23, 1995
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GROZNY, Russia--To those on the I scene, it is as if a nightmare had sprung to life. In the streets of this city of 400,000, where couples once strolled and children walked to school, wild dogs now roam among corpses. Buildings lie blackened, burned-out, and abandoned. A dark mist from a burning off refinery seems suspended in the air.
"The end of the world has come," wails a woman who has lived all her life here in Grozny (GROSH-Nee).
Grozny (whose name means "terrible" in Russian) is the capital of Chechnya (CHECH-nee-uh), a New Jersey-sized republic in southern Russia. (A Russian republic is similar to a U.S. state.
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