He has also overseen a glamorous rebuilding of Grozny, a city of around 270,000 people, with high-rise skyscrapers now dotting the skyline, along with neatly manicured boulevards, and one of ...

Stalingrad, Hiroshima, and Dresden. The ruins of Grozny, the war-scarred capital of Chechnya, have been compared to all three. Blackened, fissured… ...