Actual News from Chechnya

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The Sovietskaya Rossiya State Farm has been listed as good not only in the Grozny agricultural district but also all over Chechnya. Last year the Sovietskaya Rossiya personnel was awarded a Volga car and its director, Zamzan Nagermanov, was given the title of Honoured Machine Operator of Russia. On the results of last years gross harvest the Sovietskaya Rossiya State Farm ranks first in Chechnya. Ours will be the leading state farm this year too! the director says with certainty. This years winter and spring crops are not inferior to last years crops. In early June there were 1,500 hectares of sown area, including 1,300 hectares of food grains, 100 hectares of sugar-beet and another 100hectares that are sown with maize and vegetables the Sovietskaya Rossiya State Farm has re-started growing this year. Zamzan Nagermanov believes that the Sovietskaya Rossiya personnel can be praised for its former achievements. It is a good and united team of high-class specialists, the director says. All of them have a lengthy record of service and are experienced workers, and besides, they are great enthusiasts of agricultural work. And it is not accidental that the Sovietskaya Rossiya farmers adopted cross-over sowing as long ago as the late 90s of last century: doubled expenditures lead to desired results. And this year a crossover method was used to sow winter crops. An attempt to use a similar method to sow spring crops ended in a failure: the weather was bad, the soil was not easy to plough and the deadline was close. And though an ordinary method was used to sow winter crops, the expected results will be much better than last years results, as the Sovietskaya Rossiya farmers believe. They are always eager to share their experience in the application of advanced methods with other farmers in all parts of Chechnya. The Yubileiny and the Gikalo state farms of the Grozny agricultural district and also some farms of the Shalinsky District in Chechnya have already adopted the Sovietskaya Rossiya experience. The Sovietskaya Rossiya director has absolute certainty that his team is on the right way. The crossover method has improved considerably the material conditions of the local farmers. There are plans this year to pay wages to the state farm workers in cash, not by the goods they produce. This has become possible thanks to the realization of good harvest of grain and vegetables. This decision encouraged their doing shock work in future as well.
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The Civil Society Center is going to open a youth democratic movement called Ours and a network of training camps all over Russia. According to the movements leader, V. Yakemenko, the opening ceremony in Grozny will take place at the end of June. A few scores of volunteers are now completing the construction. It will be a three-storied building built to the latest designs and located in the citys center. The center will house a movie hall, Internet cafe to relay immediate information, a press center, as well as premises for law-enforcement agencies. Premises will be provided to all those who realize that a civil society is of special importance to Russia and particularly so for Chechnya. The centers main objective, according to V. Yakemenko, is aimed at law-enforcement activities and technical support of the process. The center will also focus on regular programs such as struggle against family violence, fascism, Army hazing, freedom of speech, and educational programs. Training camps, V. Yakemenko said, will be a separate part in Ours activities. This will be a good opportunity for thousands of young people to meet renowned politicians, public figures, scholars and to engage in sports. In other words, Chechen youth will be given a chance to educate themselves. The camps will be open to anyone, as long as they become commissars of this organization. (more...)

Chechen history

Chechnya | Questions and answers

This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian territory which has witnessed the most tragic events over the past decade. The book is the latest update on the Chechen Republic . And this is very important, since a lack of fresh and accurate information about events in Chechnya generates many distorted conceptions and rumours - both within and outside Russia . For example, that Chechen society is allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that pro-Russian elements in the republic are marginalised; and lastly, that Russian power structures are fighting the Chechen people, rather than armed bandit groups. The reality, however, is that only with the return of the legitimate authorities are villages and towns being restored, children going to school for the first time in many years, and pensioners receiving long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a referendum on a new Chechen constitution, and parliamentary and presidential elections. These votes will be held, despite continued attempts by bandit groups and their leaders to scupper the process of normalisation in the republic, the latest terrorist act being the bombing of the republican government building. The war being waged by Chechen separatists against federal forces and more often than not against their own co-citizens is by no means a "national liberation struggle of the Chechen people", but an episode in the overall offensive by international terrorism on the fundamental principles of modern civilisation. The facts show that being a part of the Russian Federation in no way threatens the Chechen Republic 's cultural identity, the free use of its own language, and preaching Islam. On the contrary, it was during de facto "independence" from Russia that the Chechen people suffered a humanitarian tragedy on an unprecedented scale. Hostage-taking, the slave trade and plundering came to form the economic basis of the new regime, while chaos and war became the form of its political existence. We want to emphasise once more: Chechnya is part of Russia , geographically, politically and civilisation-wise. So a hypothetical triumph of radical Islamism on its territory would be anti-historical. Such a development would signify the establishment in the midst of Europe of a Taliban-like regime, with all ensuing consequences for the international community. The corporate author - journalists of the Russian Information Agency Novosti - have attempted to be as brief as possible on providing answers to the most-often aked questions (above all posed by a foreign audience) about the Chechen issue. Hence the book's title: " Chechnya : Questions and Answers". It draws heavily on information provided by various Russian ministries and departments that in one or another way are involved in normalising life in the republic.
Russian Information Agency Novosti
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Chechen economics. An Entrepreneurs Table Book Published in Chechnya

An Entrpreneurs Table Book with a circulation of 5,000 copies has been released in the Chechen Republic. Its appearance comes in the nick of time, as according to specialists, there about 5,000 small businesses, including farming collectives. This sector of the economy employes nearly 100,000 farmers. Over the next five years the Chechen leadership is targeting to double the number of small business and increase the number of employees up to 250-300 thousand people. The Republic has set up a modern support infrastructure for small business and developed programs of development and support of small entrepreneurship. And the most important thing is that there are dynamic people, ready to undertake small business. It is precisely for those people that An Entrepreneurs Table Book has been released. Its compilers include Shaarani Shuaipov Committee Chairman on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Chechen government, and Magomed Shovkhalov -- Fund Director in support of small entrepreneurship of the Chechen Republic.
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Issue 294
27.06.05

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

27 June 2005  Problems of commuter transport in Grozny are slowly being solved
The route of bus number 4 is the longest and most difficult in the Chechen capital. 12 state fixed route taxis and 30 private ones are plying the route and moreover, passengers using the route also enjoy the services of private car owners who carry passengers without a license and or agreement. A raid has therefore been undertaken to find out such cases but there remains the problem of lack of appropriate, well equipped stops. At the bus terminals passengers wade through dirt to reach vehicles and drivers have nowhere to make a turn also due to the ever present dirt. The problem is being looked into by city authorities but so far no measure has been taken. Reason? Lack of funds. But attempts are being made to improve public transport service in the Chechen capital and 4 additional buses have been allocated to route number 4. The fare on that route is 4 rubles, twice cheaper than by fixed route taxi. Passengers are satisfied and happy.
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26 June 2005  Ecological Environment in Chechnya Seen Deteriorating
The ecological environment in Chechnya has significantly deteriorated. The level of deleterious exhausts into the atmosphere has increased, the rivers are greatly polluted, and large segments of forests are mined. According to Magomed Mamakayev _ Department Chief of the Chechen Security Council _ no significant measures to improve the situation are being undertaken. Although some burning oil wells have been extinguished, which are being taken care of by _Grozneftegaz_. And this is the only positive moment concerning the improvement in ecology in the Republic. The atmosphere is badly damaged by the mini oil refineries located in the pre-mountainous villages of the Kurchaloi, Gudermes and Shali regions The capital_s chemical combine is the greatest threat to the ecological environment in Grozny. One of its shops contains storage of radioactive materials. Radioactive radiation exceeds normal levels by scores thousands of times. But there are no funds to eliminate them. It will require 22 million roubles today to restore ecological balance in the Chechen Republic.
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26 June 2004  Center for Disable Opened in Grozny
Where and how does one spend one_s spare time? This is a problem facing the majority of young men and girls in Chechnya. But if healthy and able-bodied young people can resolve it themselves, disabled youth may have a problem. In this case the Chechen division of the All-Russia Society of Disabled Persons came to their help. Rabu Azdayeva, its leader, nurtured the idea for three years and applied to various humanitarian organizations and to the government with a request for financial support. Finally with the assistance of the French humanitarian organization _Handicap Internacional_ such a center was opened in Grozny. The center now has two computers, checkers, chess-men, dominos, guitars and karaoke. The center holds contests in karaoke play, chess and computer games. Here where young disabled youth can meet and communicate. The center is located in a two-room apartment. Young men who attend the center mainly prefer the computers. While girls like to sing along with the karaoke. And they know how to do it well. This affects positively their psyche , and helps elevate their self-esteem. The center has an instructor in computer knowledge, who is himself disabled. He takes care of all those who wish to learn it. The center will also hold meetings with prominent personalities in the Republic: poets, writers and entertainers. A club for wheel-chaired young people and a club of quizzical and merry folks are also under consideration. Rabu Azdayeva believes that similar center should be set up in all regions of the Republic. But healthy and able-bodied people should also attend them, which would be conducive to better social adaptation of disabled people.
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen culture

The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors.
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Chechen tarditions

The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens.
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Chechen cuisine

"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. And it was not until the late 19th century that many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of their own.
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