The war in Chechnya has largely dropped off the world's television screens and newspaper front pages, but the battle between Chechen separatists and Russian soldiers continues.
Russian officials say they are winning the struggle and that conditions in Chechnya are improving.
Yet eyewitness accounts reveal that the situation is as dangerous and explosive as ever. Rushailo's casualty statistics and optimism don't match the views of Ruslan Khasbulatov, a Chechen politician who has never been suspected of having sympathies with the rebels. Tatyana Kasatkina works for Russia's Memorial human rights organization. A destroyed city in ruins. There's no safety at all.