Chechnya wants to rename war-ravaged capital

Chechnya’s parliament today asked the Kremlin to rename the war-ravaged provincial capital after the late Moscow-backed Chechen president who died in a rebel bombing.

The parliament voted unanimously to ask Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to rename Grozny to Akhmad-Kala, in the memory of Akhmad Kadyrov who was killed in a bomb blast in a Grozny stadium in May 2004.