Ilyas Bogatyrev's reports from the border of Chechnya and Stavropol (1990-1999)

Chechens say goodbye to Ilyas Bogatyrev.

The time code is blown up.

A man talks about the Chechen Cossacks, about differences on religious grounds, about communication with otherworldly forces.

A Cossack invites people to breakfast.

A general talks about his unit and about shelling.

Comments on the general situation in the mountains.

Discussion of the work of the police.

Conflict with local police departments.

Agricultural problems, non-payment of salaries and subsidies for the region.

The meeting disperses.

Soldiers at a trailer behind barbed wire.

A man sits on the roof of a dovecote.

Soldiers in an APC. Interviews about the situation in the region and relations with local residents.

Information about the sale of humanitarian aid in the markets, about the robberies of civilians, about the inaction and complicity of the local police to the militants.

The soldiers get into the APC and drive away.

The collective farmers talk about shelling, about Chechens looting houses and factories, about the destruction of agricultural lands.

A man exposes the actions of the Chechens. I. Bogatyrev with a soldier on the edge of a trench.

A shell casing on the ground.

The detonation of a time code.

A shell casing, the legs of people standing nearby.

A barrier with an embrasure made of bags of earth.

OMON soldiers talk about shelling.