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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 343
16.01.06
16 January 2006
Two arms caches have been found in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus in the past 24 hours, the local law-enforcement authorities said Sunday. Police found the first cache at a cemetery in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya using information disclosed by a militant arrested in the area. The cache contained a machine-gun, a grenade launcher, an automatic rifle and ammunition. The other cache was discovered in the Leninsky district of Grozny. It contained a grenade launcher, 11 grenades, three fuses, two smoke barrels and ammunition. (more)
The acting prime minister of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus demanded Sunday that law enforcement authorities in the republic put a stop to drug trafficking and illegal alcohol trade. Ramzan Kadyrov said at a meeting with the heads of Chechen law enforcement agencies and state departments, "I give you a one-week time period, and within this period if you have not managed to turn around the situation with the spread and use of drugs and the illegal sale of alcoholic drinks, I will take a decision on staff changes at the top of the relevant departments." The acting premier also stressed the importance of discipline among law enforcement agencies. (more)
Three members of illegal armed groups have been arrested in Chechnya. They reported the location of hiding places with armaments. Aslanbek Bargishev, 30, from Doku Umarovs group was arrested in the village of Chernorechye, Urus-Martan District. He told the investigators that he had set off two homemade explosive devices on Umarovs order early in 2005, a representative of the Chechen interior ministry told Itar-Tass. Bargishev reported the location of a hiding place with 35 projectiles for under-barrel grenade launchers, a machine-gun and 100 kilograms of plastid. Another two militants Adlan Khamzatov, 21, from the village of Samashki, and Usam Turluyev, 25 -- were arrested in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya. According to the results of the investigation, they were members of the gang, led by Sayed-Hasan Musostov, who was killed during an operation near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, in Ingushetia, on December 7, 2005. Turluyev is suspected of having taken part in an attack on the village of Roshni-Chu last August. He reported the location of a hiding place on the outskirts of a cemetery in Samashki, which contained a machine-gun, a grenade-launcher, a submachine-gun, ten projectiles for a grenade launcher and ten powder cartridges, the Chechen interior ministry official continued. Khamzatov also reported the location of a hiding place with two Mukha grenade launchers. All the three militants are being interrogated (more)
Two patrol policemen have been wounded in the Shali district of Chechnya, Interfax was told at the district police on Monday. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the district administration said: "At 5 p.m. on Sunday, about 20 unidentified men in camouflage police uniforms, armed with automatic weapons, attempted to break into a liquor store. When the police officers patrolling the area demanded that they stop their illegal actions, the gunmen opened fire." (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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