Word: mikail
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...year-old exile from the Chechen capital of Grozny, was filming in Pankisi, his main concerns were squaring the local mafiosi and allaying the fears of his actresses. His 35-minute feature aims to tell the story of the second Chechnya war through one family. The oldest son, Mikail, doesn't fall into the usual Chechen warrior stereotype - the film hints at a love of drawing - but nonetheless leaves his village, family and fiancé and joins a guerrilla unit when the Russians invade in 1999. He is fatally wounded in a minor skirmish. When he dies, his younger brother...
...surprised, glad, at how good the turnout worked out," said Mikail Abdalla, a librarian at the University of Rhode Island. "I was expecting maybe 100, 120 people...