RUSSIA-CHECHNYA-ECONOMY

A picture taken 13 February 2006 shows a Chechen street vendor selling corn on the market in the capital Grozny. While Victoria Street, the main avenue in the center of in the still-ruined Grozny, has been restored in record time, symbolizing, according to Moscow, a year supposed to bring economic renewal to a „stablized” Chechnya, official estimates place the unemployment rate at about 80 percent.
AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / KHASAN KAZIYEVA