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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Grozny siege
Description: In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnyaβs capital Grozny. Dr Aslan Doukaev was a university teacher when the first Chechen war started. In this programme first broadcast in 2010 he tells Ed Butler about surviving months of conflict.(Photo: Russian soldier during the siege of Grozny. Credit: Getty Images)