<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/mary_dejevsky/index.html" target="_blank">Mary Dejevsky: Russia notebook: how a lion-fancier got Grozny back on its feet</a>
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A bizarre day in many ways, that involved a charter flight to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, which is now has the appearance of a squeaky clean, new town
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