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The passenger transportation and upgrading the quality of service is an urgent issue in Chechnya. This is linked with the fact that 70% of production capacity and facilities that offer technical services in automobile transport system have been destroyed and bus depots have to be reconstructed.
The restoration of the sector is gaining momentum. Over 430 million rubles have been allocated to reconstruct transport facilities since 2001. This sum has been spent to reconstruct the branches of state-owned Chechenavtotrans Company - Gudermessky, Yrus-Martanovsky, Shelkovakoi and Nadterechny and bus depots - Zapadny, Tsentralny and Yuzhnaya in Grozny and buy 490 buses. Consequently, 198 bus routes, including 84 intercity, 68 suburban and 46 city routes have been restored.
During a study of Chechnyas automobile transport problem it has been revealed that money allocated under the federal programme has been used ineffectively owing to poor coordination of the Chechen government and federal executive bodies.
Money and subsidies for the transportation of privileged persons are being directed to the account of the Chechenavtotrans Company despite the fact that Transport and Communications Ministry is the client of intercity and suburban transportation. The ministry enjoys the right to attract any kind of vehicles for transportation regardless their ownership.
With the appearance of dozens of small businesses and businessmen on automobile transport market, technical conditions of vehicles and road safety have worsened. Nevertheless, to meet the demands of people in passenger transportation Transport and Communications Ministry together with the administrations of cities and districts has arranged about 800 mini-buses but the work of which has to be controlled regularly. According to Chechnyas traffic police, 5870 buses were registered in the republic as of January
1st. Many of them are engaged in passenger transport but their owners have no permissions to do so and do not honour rules and regulations in this area. As a result the republican budget does not get up to 20 million rubles a year.
The maintenance of order in passenger transport does not realized at a deserved level owing to the fact that traffic police and tax service work independently and poor coordination between them and the shortage of experts. According to the head of Chechnyas Security Councils department M. Mamakaev, these bodies do not check up whether the drivers have agreements to work in the given route, drivers have no plans that shows the dangerous sectors of the routes and the vehicles have no information about the price
of tickets and the rules and regulations for the use of buses. All this prompts the government to set up a single service to control tariffs and rules and regulations of passenger transport in Chechnya.
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Issue 347
03.02.06
03 February 2006
Chechnya's acting prime minister waded into the storm Friday around controversial images of the founder of Islam that appeared in European media and have led to huge protests around the world. "I am outraged with insulting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have been published in the Danish press," Ramzan Kadyrov told a news conference. "I would like to remind you that any depiction of the prophet is prohibited by the laws of Islam." The heated row between the European media and the Muslim world began in September last year when a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published a dozen cartoons of the prophet in an attempt to defend the freedom of expression in the media. Several leading European publications have reprinted the cartoons recently causing a new wave of public and official protests around the Muslim world. Many Arab countries have called for a boycott of Danish and Norwegian goods. Kadyrov, the son of the late President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, said the reprints appeared in the media to incite religious discord and despite broad public protest among Muslims, who regard these cartoons as a blasphemy. Senior figures from the Muslim community have demanded an official apology. "If we do not stop these artificial attempts to increase religious tensions, these processes will only spread, as cancerous spores, and will have catastrophic consequences for the world," Kadyrov said. (more)
The regional Supreme Court sentenced on Friday a resident of Daghestan to 4.4 years in a correctional zone. Magomed Salikhov, 43, was accused of organizing an explosion in a residential house in Buinaksk on September 4, 1999. He was sentenced on charges of his participation in an illegal armed unit and forgery of documents, Supreme Court judge Kurban Pasheyev, who presided over the trial, told Itar-Tass. However, a jury later passed an acquitting ruling on Salikhov. He was detained during the illegal crossing of the Russian- Azerbaijani border on November 12, 2004. Salikhov was charged on seven articles of the Criminal Code, including terrorism and murders. He denied his guilt during the trial. The explosion of a car bomb near a house in Buinaksk, in which mostly officers of the Russian Defence Ministrys 136th Motorized Rifles Brigade and their families lives, killed 64 people and left more than 100 injured. Another car bomb was prepared for explosion near a military hospital, but it was timely defused. Salikhov was one of suspects in the crime. Six residents of Daghestan were sentenced in this case in 2001 and one later. Two of them, Isa Zainutdinov and Salikhovs younger brother were given life sentences. The terrorists were detained in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. They were members of a band that Jordan-born terrorist Khattab personally trained for terrorist acts in Daghestan that were aimed at intimidation of the local population. (more)
Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov, who was injured in a car crash several months ago, will return to his duties right after completing treatment and a rehabilitation course, acting Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax in Grozny on Tuesday. "Certain media outlets have recently spread rumors based on speculations and gossips that Abramov would not return to Grozny and that I am going to take his seat. Behind them are forces that are jealous of any positive changes in Chechnya and want to see it a flashpoint and a hotbed of tension as before, but these times are behind and will never happen in Chechen history again," Kadyrov said. (more)
On January 30, at a news conference in Moscow, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov stated that foreign investors plan to invest more than 40 million euro in the republic, informs a REGNUM correspondent. The president said that investors expressed special interest to oil sphere, so it is planned to construct an oil products processing plant and arrange selling of its products in Russian regions. Also, foreign capital will be invested in agricultural complex and building industry. Zyazikov said that recently, successful negotiations have been held with Dutch, Italian and German companies that are ready to invest in Ingushetia. Also, in February, the president of Ingushetia plans to visit Jordan on the invitation by the country's king. Zyazikov told only about cultural part of the visit and said that he would present an exhibition in Jordan. (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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