When the cold weather came, Liza Mazhayeva was busy with her daily routine: cooking food for four children, two grandkids, and her sick husband, even while doing her best to keep the ramshackle house clean despite its broken roof and windows. Her life was little different from that of thousands of other obedient and God-fearing Chechen housewives in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechen Republic.
“My children haven’t seen much happiness in their lives,” she told me last week. “The war has never ended for them.” We spoke in her small living room, where her younger son, 18-year-old Ibrahim, was entertaining …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
