photo info:
- Year1995
- PhotographerLucian Perkins
- NationalityUSA
- Organization / PublicationThe Washington Post
- CategoryWorld Press Photo of the Year
- PrizeWorld Press Photo of the Year
- Date00-05-1995
- CountryRussia
- PlaceChechnya
- CaptionA bus on the road leading to Grozny during fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russian troops. The civil war which erupted when President 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.
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