Prokhazkova, Petra

She was born on October 20, 1964 in the city of Cesky Brod ^[2] .

In 1986 she graduated from Charles University with a degree in journalism. In January 1989, she received her doctorate for the study of animated films, with particular attention to the magazine Čtyřlístek ^[3] .

In 1989, she began working as a correspondent for the Lidove Noviny newspaper, and in 1992 became her own correspondent for the publication in Moscow. In total, she worked in the newspaper until 1997 ^[2] .

It covered various military conflicts in the post-Soviet space, the first of which were events in Abkhazia . She was a direct witness to the shooting of the House of Soviets in the fall of 1993 .

In 1994, together with fellow journalist Jaromir Stetina, she founded the independent journalistic agency Epicentrum, whose goal was to cover events in hot spots . Over the years, she covered the events during the Chechen conflict , the Georgian-Ossetian conflict , the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , the Tajik civil war , the war in Afghanistan , the Kashmir conflict and the East Timorese crisis ^[2] .

Over the years, she surveyed the situation in Chechnya and Grozny when he first came under fire. ^[2] In June 1995, during the capture of the hospital in Budyonovsk, Basaev offered herself to him in exchange for hostages.

In 2000, she focused on humanitarian work, in particular, opened an orphanage in Grozny. For criticizing the Russian authorities in pursuing policies in Chechnya, she received a ban on entry into Russia ^[2] , which, according to her, was lifted only in 2011 ^[4] .

After returning to the Czech Republic, she created the small humanitarian organization Berkat ^[5] , which was primarily engaged in assisting Chechnya and Afghanistan.

While working in Afghanistan, she returned to journalism and was one of the last journalists to meet with Ahmad Shah Masoud before he was killed.

The second husband is Ibrahim Zyazikov, who came from the Taip Murat Zyazikov . He was involved in the security and escort in Chechnya of humanitarian supplies of the Czech humanitarian foundation “ Man in Need ” ". In March 2003, he disappeared in the same place ^{[6] [7] [8]} .

The third husband is Zafar Paifar, a photographer from Afghanistan who has a son - Zafar (born 2006) ^[9] .

• Prize Ferdinand Perutka (1997)
• Křepelek magazine award (1999)
• Karl Gavlicek-Borovsky Prize
• Medal of Merit (2000)
• In 2001, Madeleine Albright received the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award from the hands of Madeleine in the amount of 150,000 kroons ($ 5,200) in recognition of her humanitarian work in Chechnya ^[2] . In her speech, Albright noted the following: “We are dealing here with a very remarkable journalist. With the one for whom the profession is sensitive [...] and with the one whose heart is aware to whom it protects. " ^[2]
• Prize Frantisk Krigla (2004)
• Gratias Agit Award (2006) for creating a good image of the Czech Republic abroad

• Petra Procházková, Jaromír Štětina: Utřete tělesné šťávy ( Wipe out the body fluids ), 2001, ISBN 80-86103-51-X . Collection of short stories about people pushed outside the society due to wartime cruelty.
• Jaromír Štětina, Petra Procházková: Rošangol , 2003, ISBN 80-86103-70-6 . Two stories about women-mothers from the contemporary Afghanistan.
• Petra Procházková: Aluminum královna: rusko-čečenská válka očima žen ( The Aluminum Queen: The Russian-Chechen War Through the Eyes of Women ), 2003, ISBN 80-7106-730-X . Document about women struggling for survival in Chechnya during the wars. It was translated into French, Swedish, Polish, Dutch and Estonian.
• Petra Procházková: Frišta , 2004, ISBN 80-7106-792-X . Novel about a Russian-Tadjik woman living in Afghanistan after the fall of Taliban.

• Perez JA Writer recalls Chechan war . The Prague Post (February 25, 2003). Date of treatment October 17, 2016. Archived March 5, 2003.
• Šulc, R. Petra Procházková - válečný zpravodaj milosrdná sestra? (unspecified) . České dráhy . Archived on May 14, 2003.