On November 7, 2005, the long-awaited rock festival “Phoenix – Revival to Life” took place at the local Lokomotiv stadium in Gudermes. It was the first major public event in Chechnya since the end of the latest war in this part of the Caucasus region. The festival was intended to celebrate the final return to peaceful life and demonstrate that, despite all the difficulties caused by the armed conflict in the recent past, citizens living in Chechnya are not immune to ordinary human joys in the present.
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