The Washington Post
01 May, 1995
Chechnya, Russia. A bus on the road to Grozny during fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russian troops. The First Chechen War, which erupted when President Boris Yeltsin sent troops to the rebellious province in December 1994, was still dragging on months later. When the Chechen fighters fled Grozny, the capital, where the war had claimed a horrendous human and material toll, Russian troops pursued them into the countryside to the south and east.
Lucian Perkins
Lucian Perkins (1952, USA) graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in biology. He started his photographic career as a photographer for the student newspap...
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