Grozny
Five Years Later
After his father’s murder, now being the head of the family, Dmitri moved his mother and three sisters to Grozny, where there were more commercial business opportunities for him. He got a job as a teller in an international bank, and he settled the family together in an apartment downtown. His mother took a job as a cook in the ethnic Russian school her daughters attended.
Chechen separatists, refusing to accept a Russian dictatorship, were now conducting terrorist actions in Moscow, including placing bombs in the subway. Meanwhile, the Russian army was continuing its atrocities in Chechnya. The cessation of hostilities that Sergei had envisioned, along with any stability that might have come under Russian rule, never materialized.
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