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 Culture

Cultural events

The Chechen Republic Center of Amateur and Folk Arts Functions in Full Force and Efforts

The Center was opened back in 1938 in analogy with similar centers in other regions of the country to coordinate and analyze activity of these centers and clubs. According to Ramzan Daudov, who heads the Chechen Republican Center, at present conditions for functioning of his and similar centers and clubs in the republic are far from being good. All in all, there are 480 centers and clubs in Chechnya. The majority of them are destroyed, some are absolutely un- accommodated and, thus function at half-steam. The major problem for the Republican center is that it has lost practically all the date base it has been acquiring for almost 70 years of its existence. So, currently, the staff-members and volunteers spare neither time nor efforts to restore the lost cultural heritage. The most gratifying fact is that the Chechen Republican Center has recently begun functioning in full force and efforts again. As a result, a republican festival of the national cultural centers for children Rainbow of Cultures has just been held. An exhibition of works from various national centers has just been held in the republican concert hall. The event drew much attention and the number of visitors was great indeed. Ramzan Daudov was in charge of it. The Chechen Republican center also held a round-table discussion devoted to the problems of upbringing the younger generation. Practically all the inhabitants of Chechnya could see its TV version. And in Gudermes the Republican center held a party called A Dignified and Estimable Man. Just recently the center could not hold any major event more often than once in three months, but now it holds two or three of them each month. Ramzan Daudov: It is very important for us. It encourages people. It is such a joy to see sparks of happiness in the eyes of those, who sing folk songs and perform national dances! Each concert strengthen friendship between all the nations and nationalities inhabiting our republic from time immemorial, it helps to keep national cultures and traditions intact. The Chechen Republic center of amateur and folk arts gets extensive support from similar centers in the neighboring regions Krasnodarsky and Stavropolsky regions, the Rostov oblast, the republic of Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya. Ramzan Daudov: Now we function because our neighborsour friends have helped us greatly. Besides, we are most grateful to the government of the Chechen republic. We have moved from ill-fitted accommodations to the new and comfortable ones. That is why we have been working in full force and efforts since last autumn. But whats more important, we are not going to be satisfied with the results achieved. (more...)

Issue 362
11.04.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

11 April 2006 City will be More Beautiful Without Illegal Structures
To back up this conviction Argun administrators have set up a special commission to fish out all illegal structures in the city. All the illegally occupied lands by inhabitants will be taken back and given either to the state or to their original owners. For example, there is a government standing instruction that all parcels of land previously belonging to the Chechen ministry of culture should be returned to it. In the case of Argun involved are parcels of land belonging to the two-year old 2 cinema theaters that are now in private hands. There will be a different approach to illegal buildings, said deputy chief administrator of Argun, Sayid-xamzat Duzayev. Such illegal apartment buildings will remain intact for now and the primary focus of the commission will be on economic structures like sheds and kitchens. Those fitying in with the towns architectural plan will be allowed to exist. Owners of such structures would get appropriate permission in case they will be able to submit to the towns administration all relevant papers. All illegal structures that fail to meet official standards and specifications will be pulled down and owners will bear the cost of demolition. The towns administration will provide equipment for demolition work and for the clearing of debris. There is much work to be done since there are plenty of the last mentioned structures all over the place, but Mr. Duzayev is optimistic that the work will be completed before the beginning of the heating period. His optimism is based on the fact that all residents in the town have agreed with the decision of the administrators. People have become more conscious of their civic responsibilities, said Mr. Duzayev.
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10 April 2006  Militant attack kills three in Chechnya
A militant attack in Chechnya, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, killed one police officer and two civilians, the local interior ministry said Sunday. According to the ministry, unidentified persons opened automatic fire at a car in the village of Sernovodsk in the Sunzha district of Chechnya, killing a police officer and his two relatives. Measures have been launched to find the attackers.
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10 April 2006  2 large arms caches found in Chechnya
Chechnya's Interior Ministry said Thursday that two large arms caches had been found in the troubled North Caucasus region. Police found a cache holding a 122-mm shell, two mines, three grenade launcher rounds, other ammunition and 13 sacks of aluminum powder weighing a total of 650kg (1,433 pounds) in a deserted house in the Achkhoi Martan region, south of the capital, Grozny, the ministry said. The ministry said aluminum powder could be used in production of explosives.
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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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