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People & Power · Al Jazeera English, 2010

Ingushetia: A Second Chechnya?

It started asInsurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus.

I foundThe security forces and the militants, both on camera. And the families caught between them.

Reporter and co-producer

  • Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2010: winner, International Television & Radio (shared with Dom Rotheroe and Mike Chamberlain)
  • People & Power, Al Jazeera English

A long-running counter-insurgency against Islamist and nationalist militants in Ingushetia. I gained access to both the Russian security forces and the militants.

What emerged was a fusion of nationalism and a cycle of violence driven by honour, blood feuds and government corruption, and the families caught between them.

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