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Unemployment is one of the key problems facing Chechnya. The fund supporting small business-undertakings has worked out a new project that is unfamiliar to the North Caucasus. According to its director M. Shavkhalov, the project is designed to breed animals for fur. These animals are sable, mink, polecat, polar fox and silver fox. At present Pushkinsky state farm in the Moscow region is successfully engaged fur-breeding. Chechen businessmen have concluded a preliminary agreement with the farm on the delivery
of saplings to Chechnya and conduct experiments on their breeding. If the results are promising they plan to organize a fur-breeding farm. According to preliminary estimates, the project will cost one million rubles. It is attractive because it provides for the creation of up to 1 000 jobs. This is of utmost important for Itumkali and Sharoi districts where there are no vacancies. The reason for organizing a farm in the mountainous districts is that winter is severe there and consequently, fur will be excellent.
The winter in low lands is warm and there are many harmful ants there.
It is insufficient to build a fur breeding farm. There is a need for building shops for currying skin and factory for making fur coats, hats and other items. Mink and chinchilla coats are very expensive. They are imported from Greece and other countries. If Chechnya could organize this successfully it can meet not only its demands but also can sell fur goods in other Russian regions. In short, this is a good way of earning money for the republic. The project will be realized in five years. Its returns will
be very high since these animals breed fast. For one, silver fox gives four cubs a year and mink from 4 to 6. Experts believe that the outlay will be covered in 2 or 3 years. In fact, Chechnya has many veterinary surgeons and experts in animal breeding who have undergone special training. But at present they have no jobs. According to M. Shavkhalov, in future, Chechen businessmen plan to create a farm similar to that in the Moscow region.
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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 345
24.01.06
24 January 2006
Geography and geo-ecology faculty of the CSU marked its 30th anniversary in 2005. It was the strongest geography faculty in the North Caucasus between 1975 and late eighties. Its graduates were experts in physical, economical and social geography. The faculty held regional and All-Union conferences. It had an excellent base in the mountainous region where students followed field practical courses. The students visited Central Asia, Trans-Caucasus, Black Sea coast, Polar region and White and Barents Seas for additional practical courses. There were 16 holders of first higher degree and several doctor degree holders. It conducted courses for post-graduate students in physical and economical geography. The faculty was well equipped. It conducted All-Union expeditions too. Chechnya has always been attractive for geographers for its beautiful nature and untouched landscapes. Geographers discovered virgin forests, amazing waterfalls, thermal springs and mountainous lakes, and the hospitable Chechen people welcomed them with pleasure. After hard times the faculty and the university as a whole have been reconstructed rapidly. Faculty has organized a new speciality, geo-ecology. Originally, it was known as environment protection and the rational use of natural resources. The Chechen State University was one of the first higher educational establishments in the Soviet Union to introduce this speciality. Social and cultural service and tourism speciality was introduced in 2000. A graduate from the department has been working under this speciality in the past two years. This is a big achievement for the faculty. All graduates have jobs in schools in Chechnya or Ingushetia. This is the only faculty in the North Caucasus that trains graduates in geography. The faculty has organized correspondent courses too. It has 11 holders of the first higher degree and one doctor degree holder. They did their post-graduate studies at the leading institute in the country, the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the geography faculty of Moscow State University. It holds students and teachers conferences annually. The dean of the faculty U. Gairbekov says that the staff is quite efficient and it does its best to upgrade the level of their scientific knowledge and teaching methods. (more)
The committee of government Chechnya on the matters of young people conducts preparatory work for sending children from Chechnya on health-improvement sanatorium leisure to camp "Eaglet" in Tuapse city. The departure of children takes place in the beginning of February. The selection of schoolboys goes in this time. In the sanatorium will go the excellent pupils, children from poor families, and also adolescents, who need medical aid. This program is achieved by arrangement with the ministry of formation Russian. (more)
Two arms caches were found early Sunday in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, a source in the local law-enforcement authorities said. Police found the first cache in a forest near the village of Borozdinovskaya in the Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya. The cache contained three Kalashnikov assault rifles, a rifle, a VOG-17 grenade round and 730 cartridges of various calibres. The other cache was discovered in the village of Yandi in the Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya. Operatives seized a Kalashnikov machine-gun and 120 7.62mm cartridges. (more)
In the fight with addiction and alcoholism will be begun to operate not only the colleagues of law-enforcement agencies. The work, directed toward the moral training of young people, will be carried out both in the general education establishments of republic and the mosques. About the problems of the organization of this work they spoke in muftiyat of Chechen republic at the conference with the representatives of clergy of regions and villages of republic. As reported to agency key personnel in the ideology of muftiyat of Chechen republic Magamed Zaurov, at the conference special attention was given to the means of connection. use of cell phones will be also limited according to him, since they distract young people from the more serious occupations. (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 residents of Sunzhen district celebrated the New Year and religious holidays, Arafat and Kurban bairam calmly and merrily. The motto of the celebrations was Islam is a religion of kindness.
According to imam of the district Askhab-Hajj Gaev, all Moslems prayed for not only themselves and others of same faith but also people of other faiths in the world. We prayed Allah to bring peace to all regions so that there were no wars and people could live deservedly and bring up their children peacefully. Moslem who has made pilgrimage to Mecca also did so.
Askhab-Hajj Gaev says: The Day of Arafat is the day that created world. Let our praying bring peace and benefit for all people in the world regardless their faith.
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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