Free Chechnya Radio station

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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Chechen Cultura

Cultural events

Getting to Know Each Other Better

Late last month the Naur settlement in Chechnya hosted a republican festival of national cultural centers The Rainbow of Cultures. Taking part in the festival were childrens ensembles of the Nogai cultural center Ushkun, a joint Kumyk ethno-cultural center, a Russian national cultural center and Young Naur Cossacks ensemble. The festival was sponsored by the regional public organization Sozidaniye and the Center of Folk Creativity of the Chechen Republic. Ramzan Daudovdirector of that Center emphasized that at various times representatives of different peoples lived in friendship and accord and treated respectfully the culture, customs and languages of each other. Today, the Centers director noted , when our common adversaries attempt to sow grains of discord among them, we ought to show how important it is to live in peace and friendship. About 100 participants of the festival displayed their talents before the spectators. Dancers took turns appearing on stage and songs in native languages rang out. The Kumyk ensemble put up a humor program.. (more...)

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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Issue 355
17.03.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

17 Mart 2006  An Illiterate is a Loss To Society
Yusup Saihanov, chief of the Shelkov regional education office is convinced about this and hence he gives due attention to evening form of learning for people who for various reasons couldnt go to school. Consultative centers have been set up in 18 populated areas in the Shelkov region on the basis of existing local public schools. More than one thousand people attend evening lessons at the present time and teaching is conducted by conventional schoolteachers but there are also pedagogues working permanently in the evening system. The system operates both full-time and external learning and according to Mr. Saihanov the most important is to give education to as many people as possible to prepare them to contribute meaningfully to the building of the nation and that view is shared by all those involved in education in Chechnya. There are 23 evening educational consultative centers in the Grozny rural area. Liza Sambulatova, chief of the regional education section says that young people view going to school as a sort of festival, like a breathe of fresh air and a shaft of light. There are no disco clubs and unemployment is high. People are desperate to make up for lost opportunities and education seems the fastest route to do it. 140 people aged 18 to 30 are learning in the Argun evening school, receiving 9 to 12 forms knowledge. Chechnya needs today evening form of education, Naib Temirsultanov, deputy chief education officer believes. There are two evening schools in Nozhai-Yurt: in the regional center and in the Dattah village. More than 600 people, mainly aged up to 30 years, study in them. Its never late to learn, Vaharsolt Desiyev, chief of the regional education office believes; the more so that graduates from evening schools now have a large window of opportunity in terms of jobs and further education. Last year 26 of 200 evening school graduates gained admission to higher educational institutions in Chechnya and other regions in Russia, a commendable achievement.
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16 Mart 2006  10,000 Chechens take to streets in Youth Against Drugs action
Ten thousand school and college students took to the streets of the Chechen capital Grozny on Thursday in the Youth Against Drugs action, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Ruslan Atsayev told Itar-Tass. Representatives of the Education Ministry, Muslim clergy, Drugs Control Department and Interior Ministry addressed the crowd in Groznys central square. The action was organized by the Chechen governments youth committee and Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. Chechen police ensured law and order on the streets. No incidents have been registered, Atsayev said.
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16 Mart 2004  Shali Region: Gas Supplies Restored
In mid-January, after an accident on a gas pipeline linking Aksai-Guderme-Grozny, gas supplies to the Shali region in Chechnya nearly ground to a halt. It was promised at the highest levels of the Chechen government to improve the situation by mid-February. According to Shurudin Tzakayev department chief for industry, transport and communication in the region after the January 17 accident, serious problems occurred in the regional center, as well as in Avtury and Germechuk settlements. But on February 22, Chechengazprom workers welded in a by-pass pipe and gas pressure in the piping system from Aksai to Mesker-Yurt began to rise. The situation is improving and gas is being supplied to the area. But as Shurudin Tzakayev noted, problems with gas supplies in the Shali region remain, and primarily in the settlements mentioned. The pipeline laid there 30 years ago is heavily worn. The old pipes can no longer keep up with todays gas pressures and they need to be replaced with new pipes of wider diameter and lay the overland. There are also problems caused by the expansion of residential developments. Over the past 30 years the number of residents has increased and streets have extended, while at the same time no reconstruction or extension of gas-pipe networks were ever undertaken. All these issues were recently raised at a meeting of the regional administration with members of the Chechen parliament. Plans were mapped out to improve gas supplies to this area. The prospects appear to be quite favorable. This year a high-pressure gas pipeline is being laid from Novogrozny to Alkhazurovo and Samashki. Additional gas distribution stations on the outskirts of Shali and in Chiri-Yurt, envisaged under the project, will substantially improve gas supplies. Surudin Tzakayev gives his assurances that this year gas worker would try to eliminate all problems hampering gas supplies to the Shali region.
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen history

The Pulse publishing house in Moscow published on the History of Chechnya in the 19-20th Centuries. Its authors are renowned scholars of history Y.Z. Akhmadov and E.K. Khasmagomadov. This book represents a thematic continuation of research by Y. Akhmadov The History of Chechnya from Ancient Times to the end of the 18th Century (Peace Be on Your House, 2001). We posted an abridged version of the book on our Web-site.
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