A special report 03.06.2001 (2001)

Program Title: "Father Nazariy's Checkpoint".

Video: Priest Nazariy strikes a bell made from a gas cylinder with a hammer.

Caption: Chechnya, Nursky District, May 2001. The commander gives instructions to a platoon of fighters.

Priest Nazariy, reading a prayer, sprinkles the fighters in a row with holy water.

The soldiers and the priest sit on the armor of an armored personnel carrier.

The priest crosses himself.

The priest on the armor of an armored personnel carrier.

The priest in the helicopter cockpit looks out the window.

The soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher and load the stretcher into the helicopter.

Caption: Vedensky District, 119th Airborne Regiment, May 2001. Priest Nazariy, reading a prayer, sprinkles the soldiers' weapons with holy water.

Priest Nazariy communicates with the soldiers, reads a prayer, performs a ritual.

Hieromonk Nazariy looks at the mountains, blesses the grave and monument.

Anatoly Cherkashin, head of the administration of the village of Chernokozovo, talks about the priest.

The clergy pray at the icons in the church.

The priest shows the rooms in the church, life in the cells.

Monk Alexander shows the garden at the church, pours water from a bucket.

Monk Alexander talks about his life and faith in God.

Monk Alexander walks down the street.

Hieromonk Nazariy straightens the cross on the grave at the Russian cemetery.

Hieromonk Nazariy and the correspondent walk along the road.

Hieromonk Nazariy talks about the alarming situation in Chechnya, reads a prayer.

Panorama of the Russian cemetery.

Bullet marks on the gravestones.

Hieromonk Nazariy comes to the house of a Russian woman and talks to her.

The furnishings in the house and the icons on the wall.

An elderly woman talks about the alarming situation in Chechnya.

Men and women on the street of the village of Naurskaya.

Kirisenko Andrey - correspondent, speaks about the village of Naurskaya.

Warning sign: "Curfew, stop, they're shooting." Sandbags at the checkpoint.

Flags of Russia and the Chechen Republic.

Monument to the Tver Cossacks.

Schoolchildren and a woman on the street, skeins of barbed wire.

Hieromonk Nazariy speaks about Russians leaving Chechnya.

People on the street tell the correspondent about the reasons for the departure of Russians from Chechnya and the difficulties of life.

Signs on the gates of buildings "House for sale." The building of the destroyed community center "Russia." A lock on the gates of the church.

Caption: Chechnya, the village of Mekenskaya, May 2001. Hieromonk Nazariy on the territory of an unfinished Orthodox church, speaks about the abandoned construction.

Walls and windows of the unfinished church.

Panorama of the site of the unfinished church.

Hieromonk Nazariy speaks about Orthodoxy and peace.

A cross with a sign that says "Police captain Sergei Petrovich Gobelyak, SOBR Arkhangelsk, died here on January 26, 2001." Hieromonk Nazariy shows a destroyed bell tower and a bell standing on the ground.

Hieromonk Nazariy says that Orthodox people come to this place.

Kirisenko Andrey, a correspondent, talks on the street about the Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny.

Hieromonk Nazariy communicates with Russian parishioners in the church, the Church of the Archangel Michael.

The priest Father Igor reads a prayer, people pray.

In the courtyard of the church, parishioners receive humanitarian aid.

Parishioners walk along the street, past houses with broken windows.

Hieromonk Nazariy talks about the situation in the city at the ruins of the church.

Crosses stand by the wall in the destroyed church.

A broken bell in the destroyed bell tower stands on the ground.

Hieromonk Nazariy rings the bells.

A woman kisses a cross on the church wall.

Hieromonk Nazariy looks at the sun setting behind the mountains and crosses himself.