The Children in Chechnya Started Out as Two Thousand -- They're Boxes of Humanitarians, Destroyed Housing, Unstable Electricity and Propaganda at School -- and Lana Estemirova Survived All of This in Person -- and Wrote a Book Called "Please live."

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The book "Please live: The Chechen Wars, Mother and I" was born from a promise that 18-year-old Lana Estemirova made on the grave of her dead mother, a Chechen journalist and a human rights defender, Natalie Estemirova. Years later, Lana, who was still a teenager who left Chechnya and Russia, began to engage in journalism and human rights protection herself, and finally gave a detailed account of her mother's life at the turn of the century in t…