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111.jpg[break]Chechen youth smoke hookah at a billiard club in Grozny, Chechnya. Hookah is now outlawed in the Islamic republic.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]4.jpg[break]A couple on a date at a local park in Grozny.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]2.jpg[break]Military guards at a check point in Itum Kale, Chechnya.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]3.jpg[break]The centre of Grozny[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]5.jpg[break]Chechen women at a luxury store in Grozny City, a shopping center in the capital of Grozny.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]6.jpg[break]The centre of Grozny[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]7.jpg[break]A destroyed apartment building the Zavodskoi region in Grozny, Chechnya[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]8.jpg[break]A Chechen woman with her kid at home[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]99.jpg[break]Chechen women at a salon, one of hundreds, popping up in downtown Grozny.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]10.jpg[break]Grozny City, a complex of high-rise towers seen through the central mosque in downtown Grozny, Chechnya[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]12.jpg[break]First graders at school in Grozny.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]13.jpg[break]Girls must wear headscarves as part of the dress code.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]11.jpg[break]A friend helps a bride out of limousine her family rented for the wedding. Her wedding cost 500,000 rubles ($17,000), an average price in modern-day Chechnya.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]21.jpg[break]Milana, 19, surrounded by students on her wedding day.[break]Diana Markosian [break_string]15.jpg[break]A Chechen family having a meal together.[break]Diana Markosian