Famous People with Name Milana

Milana Bakhaeva            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Milana Bakhaeva: is a Chechen journalist and author of the 2006 French language bestseller Danser sur les ruines. Une jeunesse tchTtchFne (Dancing on ruins. A Chechen youth).A refugee during the Second Chechen War, Milana was one of eight Chechen students at the University of Grozny selected to study abroad by the human rights organization Etudes Sans FrontiFres in 2003, and she graduated with a Masters degree in journalism from the prestigious Institut d'+tudes Politiques de Paris in 2006.[1]As a child growing up in the Soviet Union, the family was relatively well-off, but suffered due to the spiraling increase in crime after the collapse of the Soviet Union: One night in January 1993, someone left a large iron case outside the family doorstep. Inside was the body of Milana's father, assassinated.[3]