The real life in Grozny | Is Chechnya republic of Russia safe for traveling? 

I’m actually happy that McDonalds and Starbucks aren’t operating there, love to support local businesses 🙏 great vid Eli thank you! Will definitely visit one day

I'm from chechnya and work as content manager, so I understand your struggle of no one wanting to be on camera, it's literally 98% people don't want attention )

The city, Grozny, and the rest of Chechnya looks amazing. Thank you for showing it. Greetings from Poland.

I lived in Grozny two months later, 5 years after the war, and of course the echo of the war was fresh in my memory when the plane landed at the airport. But my idea of the Chechen people completely turned upside down when we started working and communicating. Honestly, after a day in the circle of Chechens, I felt safer and more comfortable than anywhere else.

Я бангладешец,🇧🇩 я очень люблю всех русских братьев и сестер-мусульман.

Thank you very much Eli it’s a great video about my fellow brother’s from Grozny Chechnya. They are a great hospitable people’s with amazing traditions. Long live Chechnya People’s love from Afghanistan 🇦🇫🇷🇺

I was there 7 years ago. That was amazing! I love Chechnya!

Thanks dear sis for showing us the fantastic mixed culture of Russia 🇷🇺 as well as the deep culture of Russian ethnicities, Masha ALLAH, just amazing ❤, Love and respect from UK 🇬🇧 ❤️ ❤

I’m from Georgia and I would love to visit Chechnya ❤

Be upon you my muslim and muslimah Chechen brothers and sisters. We love you so much. I am from Uzbekistan. We have as many as general similarities, traditions and values. I always want to visit Kavkaz. There are my relatives as Dagestanian, Chechen, Azerbaijanian. We love your strong characteristics, dances, yummy meals and others.

Delighted to see Grozny beautifully rebuilt & thriving. Gives us all great optimism for the future of war-torn cities & villages in Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. We, the people, will have peace when we are each peaceful in our hearts & lives. We are learning to value life & joy above all else. Thank you for this visit, seeing for yourself what life is like here.

Love and peace to my Muslim brothers all over Russia. From Nigeria

I want to visit Cechenia, I'm from Italy and one my friends visited it and told me that it was really nice, this video confirmed what he told me two years ago!

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰. Have been there in Chechnya 3 time. Not only Grozny but also some remote parts of Chechnya. And I found it absolutely safe and hospitality was enormous.

I did not know that Chechnya was so beautiful. Thank you for this informative video. Most of all thank you for respecting the local culture of Chechnya. Sending them and you my love and respect from the Islamic Republic of Iran. ❤ Liked and subscribed

Nice, clean, orderly and no misery! Thank you Eli for showing us Russia and its multitude of peoples, cultures and facets! Judge by yourself!

Everywhere in Chechnya there is always a beautiful Azan, Masya Allah. I hope someday I can visit Grozny. Love Chechnya from Indonesia

I'm muslim. Usually, I don't know much about Russian culture. Your channel helps me get to know more Muslim Chechnya. Alhamdullillah. Love Chechnya.

Beautiful and peace Chechnya 👍 ❤️From🇲🇨

Спасибо за видео, как будто снова побывали в Грозном и в горах у озера. Были в Чечне в феврале 2023. Очень понравился современный, очень чистый город, порядок, прекрасные мечети в Грозном и Шали, доброжелательные люди, красивая природа! Ещё одна из многочисленных жемчужин нашей большой страны! Дальнейшего процветания Чечне, мира, благополучия, всего самого доброго и светлого её прекрасным людям!

Chechnya is so beautiful and there is a lot of mountain like in Nepal and India where my relatives live. I am very glad that they rebuild after the wars and are moving forward. Much love ❤

Maybe 8 years ago I did a 3 week road trip through Georgia, abkhazia, ingushetia, and chechnya. All absolutely beautiful countryside . Great food... great people.

Love and respect from Turkmenistan🇹🇲, As-salamu alaykum to my brothers and sisters, wonderful people♥️

I had the opportunity to meet my fellow Checknians in Mekah and was deeply impressed by their commitment to their faith and traditions. As a child, I remember hearing about the war in the news, and my home country of Somalia also experienced a civil war, which led me to live in another country for 30 years. I appreciate the opportunity to learn and experience the amazing culture of Chechnya. Sending love from Somalia.

I love the way the scarf color blends in with your hair you look like a beautiful matryoshka with so many colors

Grozny looks beautiful and clean. I hope I will have the chance to visit. I do not think I will miss Mcdonald food, I rather eat local food. thanks for the videos.

What a beautiful country with so many natural landscapes and water resources! The urban areas seem so developed with top-of-line infrastructure, roads, and buildings. Thank you for uploading this beautiful video.

Ma Shaa Allah I like Chechnya... I love Chechnyan People. Love from India 🇮🇳

Mashllh i like chachnia its good country i will be vist one day from somalia💟

I'm from Venezuela. I love your channel. I always watch all your videos to practice my listening skill and dive into Russian culture. I hope to visit your beautiful country some day. Greetings from a Venezuelan living in Costa Rica. Stay strong Russia

A beautiful place, beautiful people and so clean. I wish I could travel to this place in my life. Thanks for sharing and respecting the locals tradition and showing a very positive side of this nation.

I had a similar experience travelling through Central America last year. Even I was a little nervous and I had been to more than 70 countries at that point. We just always hear in the US and Canada that there are constant murders and kidnappings due to the drug war. It was totally fine. I was careful, knew where I was going in advance, didn't go out late at night and stayed in the safest parts of each city. It was actually a great experience and I would highly recommend this beautiful region. So I am not surprised by your experience in Chechnya. I also recognize that my government is way overprotective in terms of the advice it posts. For example, before I went to Montenegro and I had to laugh because the Canadian government travel website warned of celebratory gunfire as a danger. Ridiculous! I had a great time there and never saw a gun once. I think that really you can go almost anywhere in the world and be fine - just do your research in advance. Most people are just trying to live their daily life and the news media really exaggerates most of the time. Lastly, I am currently in Armenia and I actually had people warn me it isn't safe because there are violent protests in Yerevan right now (no, not right now because I have been here for several days and have only met friendly people, no protests - besides, there are protests everywhere from time to time, so what?!) and the war with Azetbaijan is very dangerous (I am hundreds of kilometers from the war zone). THey wouldn't believe me when I told them it was fine - they would rather believe second hand information than first hand experience - it's crazy.

wow, that change from war-torn city to this status is remarkable

Beautiful country very clean and looks very safe for tourists in grozny and I think. That there is peace now we can live together with no hate only love respect and peace

Thanks for a very insightful video. There are not many videos out there about this place and its culture. Grozny is a surprisingly beautiful city, and the nature in the whole Caucasus region is beautiful.

Love your videos! I am Bangladeshi- American. Was always curious what chechnya was like. Happy to see that they hold true to their values and beliefs

I'm very impressed with Chechnya thanks to you, Eli! What a beautiful country and wonderful people! I would love to go there and see it!

This was my first clip I watched from "Eli from Russia" at the start of 2023 and it was an eye opener to get the other side of the story. Great video Elina!

Thank you Eli for showing us all of this wonderful places and cultures....

There's nothing prettier than the nature in Chechnya 🧡

I fell in love with the Russian culture when I was a little girl. I’ve always wanted to go visit the country, but haven’t summoned the courage yet because of the whole flying over the ocean thing. Glad I can enjoy Russia through your videos!

wow they are beautiful inside & out really appreciated their discipline,strength & culture ❤from 🇪🇹

Really beautiful Chechnya and beautiful Chechnya's people.

Very2 informative as always...realy2 like all your video Eli... your doing the great job 👍👍👍 Love Chechnya love Russia of course love you Eli...greating from Indonesia 🇮🇩🙏

From Canada. Would love to visit Chechnya

Your country is truly amazing, thank you for sharing it!

Hi 👋 I'm from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 and I from this presentation, I think it's a beautiful country, very systemic, it's much better off without MC Donalds or anything of this kind of western culture. I think it's very peaceful and well cultured, Masha Allah beautiful mosques. I believe it's a wonderful country. My warm regards to Chechnya and the people of Chechnya. May Allah swt bless you 💕💕❣️

Beautiful country with beautiful people 💞

I really enjoy your videos Eli. Amazing differences in all the different parts of Russia,

One of my favourite nations in the world Russia.Chcechnya seems to be so amazing,value oriented ,traditional and spiritual souls.May God protect them.

I want to say some things about this video. First of all I LOVE how you tried to pronounce the words right , like Zhizhig Galnash. Then I think it’s really amazing that you learned some things about our culture and history. You also wore a Hijab at the near of the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque, which shows that you really respect our Religion too. I liked the topics you picked to talk about and showed us. I really love Chechnya and I miss it too since i‘m not there anymore (but I will hopefully go back after studying) I loved the vibes your video gives off, you seem like a really cool person and I hope you enjoyed your visit in Chechnya! I really enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for showing us a really really good and pretty side of Chechnya ! 🥰

I've seen many of your videos but these ones about North Caucasus are really amazing.

Эли, как много познаний умещается в твоей голове. Это огромный труд. Моя родина в 30 км от Пермского края, Кировская. Очень рада заочно познакомиться с тобой.

Thanks miss Eli that's very nice of you, my God bless you👍👌👌

Love you Chechnya from North Africa ! I have been in Chechnya and found it absolutely safe and its rising tourism industry is now one of the strongest in the region, mountain resorts, five star hotels, gourmet restaurants and also backpacker hostels, hipster eateries and art galleries are popping up all around Chechenya.

Watching from Ireland thank you for the wonderful vid love and prayers from Ireland

Thanks Eli for sharing this video and helping us to descover how Groznyj looks today... thanks

Hermoso Chechenia🥰❤️ Saludos a toda La Federacion de Rusia🇷🇺

What a wonderful video Eli! Being from the US, for me, you just broke every myth I have ever heard about travel in Chechnya, and thank you so much for doing that! It is actually remarkably beautiful! Safe Travels!

Thank you sister for this wonderful coverage of Chechnya…as young person in the 90s, i always hear of the 2 wars, Chechnya & Bosnia which was disheartening, seeing the suffering & destruction. So, this is a happy video for me to see Chechnya & its people in better times. Thx!!

Stunning beauty!!

Wow that's a beautiful country I should visit Chechnya soon

Very informative. Have grown to love your posts greatly. Much love from 🇺🇸

Eli, Thank you for such a beautiful presentation on Grozny and Chechnya. I wished I had some friends from there. The azan in the background is very soothing and adds to the presentation. Thank you again.

Hermoso documental.... Lugares espectaculares, se nota una combinación de alta educación y modestia de los lugareños , calles elegantes muyyyy limpios....sin estrés, vida tranquila...... encantador ! Te felicito por este trabajo con el fin de presentar que significa Chechenia y Chechenos.....!!!!!!! Bravo !

Chechnya is the land of Angels and Brave honest Muslims

Chechnya is a very beautiful place MashAllah🇧🇩🇧🇩

Thankyou dearly for breaking stereotypes and misconceptions , you have literally single handedly shown the world that we must trust humanity and not those who create negative narratives. Well done to you and your very authentic and articulate reviews , you have a great way of presenting a large amount of information in a very concise and accurate way without being biased. That's a blessing !

Thank you so much for this. It was a wonderful and enjoyable video

Thank you so much for this beautiful video! For a moment I felt I was there with you

love from Sudan 🇸🇩 ❤️ to people of chechnya. Great country and lovely people!

The azan(prayer calling) reminds me in malaysia..in malaysia you can heard the azan 5times a day..one day i want to visit the grozny city is beautiful place..by the way i'm from malaysia🇲🇾

I am not a Muslim but agree with them 100% about keeping alcohol out . Alcohol is the deadliest of all drugs and the number one portal drug to other dangerous drugs. GOOD for Chechnya.

Didn't realize how calming the calling was. It was beautiful

One of the best views of everyday life in Chechnya and the Chechen capital of Grozny. I am an American of Puerto Rican descent that is launching a small media network to discuss different countries and cultures within the Russian Federation for a domestic audience here in the United States. I am very happy to have come across your channel as your videos on the different regions including Dagestan will be invaluable to me. #Unlimitability

As we say in North America, you hit this one out of the park, Eli! Thanks for a glimpse of an area most of us will never get to. It is incredible how quickly they've been able to rebuild Grozny after the war devastated it. Some of the architecture is really nice. Thanks again for such great entertainment. You are a wonderful host!

Interesting video! Even though I'm Russian I still watch your channel. It helps me discover lots of interesting things about Russia. It's like travelling for free! If I ever manage to go somewhere, I'll be prepared in advance :) By the way Grozny is translated 'FORMIDABLE' in English. Overall it's been great! Nice one!

Love your videos. Thank you so much! Very informative.

Hi Eli. Thanks for showing us Chechnya. It's so beautiful and looks peaceful.

amazing country ...Happy Ramadhan for all moslem in chechen ..love from indonesia

THE CITY LOOKS 🎉BEAUTIFUL.ENJOYED UR VLOG..

Looks very clean and nicer than London

Thanks Eli. You are a great ambassador for your country.

I never hear Chechnya countries before but see your video make me will come there soon! Thank you eli, love from indonesia ♥️

I will love to visit Chechnya. I already visited Moscow, Krasnodar and few other cities. RUSSIA ❤️

Awesome! Eli I enjoyed that very much. Thank you.

Respect from france ❤

I just can't imagine a place with such beautiful landscapes was subjected to one of the most brutal wars in modern history. Wish the best for the future of Chechens.

Fantastic video, full of surprises and colors 👌 I used to have a friend from Chechnya and he was very kind, always trying to fight back the stereotypes built over his region. The world entire deserves EMPATHY and to be hear, every place on earth has a story to tell! Thank you for showing and confirming this to all of us!

Awsome video thanks!!!Love all the cultures 👌

Beautiful Eli, you do a great job opening up Russia to the world...humanising the people.❤

Thank you so much for the videos... I spent four hours watching your videos today. Spasibo from POrtugal

Thank you for helping to dispel the propaganda about Chechnya. I am sure that as a single woman, you were safer in downtown Grozny than in downtown Los Angeles or New York.

Love Chechnya, from Canada 🍁

Thank you again, Eli for your entertaining and informative video on Grozny Chechnya! I only knew what I read in the news concerning the Chechnya wars with Russia and saw the pictures of Grozny infrastructures after being bombed by Putin. Today, the city and countryside are beautiful. You are very beautiful and I love watching you speak. Thanks for sharing.

This was so heart warming. A city that was once destroyed, now looks so peaceful and serene. Russia is definitely one of the places I have to visit, but it's so huge it probably requires a month or two.

Thank you Eli for clearing the negativity about Chechnya, a job well done. A small clip of yours makes very difference among rest of the world...👏👏👏👌👍

Thank you, Eli, another very informative video….well done.

Hi Eli, thank you for the info. Appreciate.