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On December 22 Nurenergos employees marked their professional holiday Energy Employees Day. Nurdin Usamov, Nurenergos director general in an interview with Chechnya Free radio station, shared his impressions about the energy employees work in the Republic in 2005. They launched the construction of power lines of all voltages, construction and repair work of scores of substations of 35 to 110 kilovolts. They built a substation power unit of 33,000 volts near Grozny, which is the biggest in the Northern
Caucasus.
In view of the shortage of power in the Republic and lack of facilities to feed power from the Stavropol region to Chechnya, Nurenergo under agreement with a federal grid company last September took additional obligations to build 110 kilovolt lines stretching for 50 kilometers. It passes through the Stavropol region, Osetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya. Wide-ranging objectives set for energy employees in the Republic under the Program of restoration of the Chechen economy in 2005, were fully achieved.
The value of the planned work completed in 2005 amounted to 80 million roubles. Extra plan work was carried out with a view to next year.
Since the year 2000, 5 billion-rouble worth of energy was allocated to the Chechen Republic by the Russian EES energy company by way of Nurenergo.
Nurdin Usamov emphasized that this was a direct state subsidy to power producers in the Republic, all consumers and a direct assistance to it in solving its social and daily problems, which is a precondition of the Republics further economic development.
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The invasion of the Northern Caucasus by hordes of Timur the Lame, or as he is referred to in official sources Tamerlan, occurred as a result of wide-scale hostilities by Chagatai ruler against the Khan of the Golden Horde Tokhtamysh.
Tamerlans army first crossed Chechen plains in March 1395. But in view of the further and more urgent need, namely, defeat of Tokhtamysh himself, his troops did not remain there long.
After defeating his enemy on the Terek on April 15, 1395 , Tamerlan went on to attack Caucasian allies of the Golden Horde.
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Issue 341
11.01.06
11 January 2006
In early 2005, the administrations of Naur region in Chechnya and Lipetzk region reached an agreement for Lipetzk designers to provide assistance to their friends in Chechnya in the reconstruction of the central regional hospital and a boarding school. The Lipetzk regional administration allocated a weighty sum for drawing up a design and estimate documentation on these projects. Lipetzkgrazhdanstroi took up all work on the project. Tatyana Nechayeva, the institutes director said that on the eve of 2006, its specialists have completed all work and the documentation was passed on to the customer. The volume of work will be quite high. It envisages work in the reconstruction of the exterior walls, capital repairs, installation of new equipment and engineering systems. All reconstruction work on the Lipetzk documentation will be carried out by Naurs builders and specialists. The pace of reconstruction work will depend primarily on financing. It will take a year and a half to two years for the two projects to be commissioned, if there are no shortfalls in financing. Both the hospital and the boarding school will look brand-new, attractive and well-lighted. Lipetzk specialists will be also prepared to provide consultative assistance, and if need be, to go to Naur region themselves to be on the site of reconstruction. Our greatest desire, Tatyana Nechayeva noted, is to make people happy with the buildings we help build. (more)
A large cache containing ammunition and explosives has been discovered in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, the republic's law enforcement authorities said Saturday. The cache, found at a cemetery in the village of Hambi-Irzi in central Chechnya, was concealed with earth and contained 59 kilograms of hexogen and plastic explosives, a 100-kg bomb, and more than 100 TNT blocks. Sappers from a Russian Interior Ministry unit destroyed the cache. (more)
A by-election for a seat in the parliament of the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya will be held this year, the Chechen election commission chairman said Friday. Ismail Baikhanov said the need for a by-election arose after the deputy speaker of the republic's legislature, Sultan Bilimkhanov, died in hospital following car crash on January 2. The by-election will be held in March or October, in accordance with federal laws. Bilimkhanov ran for parliament in single-constituency voting in the Nozhai-Yurt District, representing United Russia, commonly referred to as "the party of power". (more)
Head of the regional headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Gen. Arkady Yedelev has summed up the results of operations in 2005. "Commander of the joint force Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Lazebin told a conference that law enforcement officers successfully eliminated 290 militants in 2005, among them 72 militant leaders, including such notorious figures as Abu Dzeit, Aslan Maskhadov, Dukvakha Gubashev, Isa Madayev, Shamil Muskiyev, Rezvan Chitigov and others," Col. Vasili Panchenkov, chief of the Interior Troops press service, told Interfax on Tuesday. (more)
You can listen to Free Chechnya Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM Moscow time on a frequency of 594 kHz on the medium wave band and on a frequency of 171 kHz on the long wave band. The programme is created with the involvement of the Ministry for culture and mass communication of the Russian Federation.
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"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.
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The spiritual department of Moslems in Chechnya has ended preparations for carrying out hajji. Originally it was planned to send 700 pilgrims but the final figure is found to be 792. Last year only 324 people visited to Mecca.
There is an increase in the number of pilgrims to Mecca elsewhere in Russia. According to the head of the international department of the Council of muftis imam-hathyb Rushan hazrat Abbyasov, this figure has increased to 13 thousand from last years 9 thousand.
Commenting on these figures Chechnyas deputy mufti Magomed Dadaev noted that the reasons for such an increase were more serious attitude toward Islam and improvement in living standards of Moslems.
A recent conference at the hajji mission of Russia determined when and from where Chechen pilgrims can leave for Mecca. These people can travel by plane from the cities of Kaspiisk and Mineralnye Vody from the 26th of December. About 390 pilgrims will leave from Kaspiisk and the rest from Mineralnye Vody.
Magomed Dadaev on behalf of the spiritual department of Moslems in Chechnya thanked Russias passport-visa service for paying maximum attention to paper work of those who desire to carry out hajji and issuing them passports without any obstacles.
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