Liza Umarova

As Michael has pointed out in a comment to this post, there's some info about Chechen singer Liza Umarova, who together with her son was last week badly beaten in a Moscow street, at this blog:

In 1997 the war ended and Liza's family came back to Grozny but in 1999 they decided to move to Moscow despite of the fact lots of chechens emigrated to Germany or Norway but Liza had refused.
Liza Umarova's songs are about tragedies the war had brought to chechens and russians. She's real patriot of Motherland more than generals and politicians. She considers combatants should negotiate and stop war.

... Grozny, you're hero-city today
and all the chechens are proud of you
although your streets are broken down
and our childhood's under ruins
but we're proud of you, capital,
Grozny's hero-city ...

The site also has mp3 samples of Liza Umarova's songs. Listening to these tracks, I was especially struck by the songs in the Chechen language, which have a haunting quality that's quite unique. "The Chechen Edith Piaf" is no hyperbole.