Arkady Babchenko about himself, his roots, country and emigration
The New Times, April 2014 Chechnya, Alkhan-Yurt, 2nd Chechen war, senior sergeant Babchenko (Foreman on the right) with colleagues, February 23, 2000 Photo: From the personal archive of Arkady Babchenko My name is Arkady Arkadievich Babchenko. I am thirty -seven years old, higher education, married, raising my daughter. When I was nineteen, my homeland shod me in Kirzachi, put a machine gun in my hands, put it on the armor and said: “Go.” And I went.