Grozny siege - a podcast by BBC World Service

In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny.

Dr Aslan Doukaev was a university teacher when the first Chechen war started.

In this programme first broadcast in 2010 he tells Ed Butler about surviving months of conflict.

(Photo: Russian soldier during the siege of Grozny. Credit: Getty Images)

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