Polina Ibrayeva is now a frail old lady with sparkling brown eyes. Seventy-three years ago, she was a three-month-old infant suddenly uprooted from the Chechen mountain village where she was born and ...

Abubakar is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr, a ritual dance performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. In each Zikr, he reaches a state of ecstasy that serves as an exorcism, a form of liberation ...