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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

Beauty Will Save the World

Just recently the Chechen Center of Amateur and Folk Arts has held an exhibition and a festival under the motto Beauty will save the world. The Center of the Russian culture and folk arts from the Shelkovskaya village took part in the event. Dasho Maromedov, who heads the center, believes the motto of the major cultural event to be absolutely correct. From time immemorial various nations and nationalities have been living side by side in our republic. Their national heritage is both rich and priceless. In the last 15 years a great number of attempts to ruin it have been made. Now it is obvious that we should combine the revival of the republic after the military operations with the revival of the national cultures and traditions of all the ethnic groups inhabiting Chechnya -says Dasho Magomedov. - That was the main idea of the latest cultural event. The Center of the Russian culture and folk arts from the Shelkovskaya village exhibited various house-hold utensils and gave a gala-concert, which attracted thousands of visitors. At the same time they could not taste dishes of the Russian national cuisine because of the Lent Christian believers have been observing. By the way, at all the previously held events of the kind visitors did enjoy the most favorite Russian dishes such as potatoes either boiled or baked in their jackets, a herring and, of course, a Russian drink famous all over the world, Chechnya included. As for the exhibition mentioned above, it demonstrated earthenware crockery and examples of embroidery created by Russian women in the 19th century, etc. All the exhibits are private properties of the Russian women living in the Shelkovskay village. They were pleased and proud to demonstrate their family rarities. Dasho Magomedov could not but express his special gratitude to them. At the opening ceremony he addressed the Russian people: I ask you not to leave Chechnya, not to move to any other place to live and work. Also, I would like to invite all those who have earlier lived in the republic to come back. The Russian people are our friends from time immemorial. We have been treating each other with kindness and respect. Nowadays these norms of our relations do help us to revive the republic. The Center of the Russian culture and folk arts from the Shelkovskaya village is famous not only for its regular participation in various exhibitions. It is no less famous for its amateur choir and dance group. They are frequent visitors to their countrymen who are currently in their army services in Chechnya. Not so long ago they gave concerts in the military unit 67-76 and the local commandants headquarters. The head of the Center of the Russian culture and folk arts from the Shelkovskaya village says: We want our concerts to bring joy and happiness to the hearts of these soldiers and officers. We want them to know that beauty will save the world. (more...)

Issue 364
18.04.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

18 April 2006 2 servicemen killed, 5 hurt in explosion in Chechnya
Two servicemen were killed and five were wounded in an explosion near the village of Dargo in Chechnyas Vedeno district, a representative of the Vedeno district commandants office told Itar-Tass on Sunday. He said an engineering patrol was examining the road, and the explosion occurred about 1.5 kilometers away from the village.
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18 April 2006  Chechen authorities approved new government complex project in Grozny
Chechen authorities have given a go-ahead to a project to build a complex of governmental buildings in Grozny, which will include a presidential palace, a parliament building, and a government headquarters. The complex will occupy an area of 12 hectares. In addition to administrative buildings, it will also include a sport facility, a recreational area, and a hotel. First Vice Prime Minister Odes Baisultanov said the project would cost 1.5 billion roubles. This will be enough if the presidential palace, the parliament building and the government headquarters are integrated into one complex. If they are built separately, it will cost more, he said. Finance Minister Eli Isayev said Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov had valuated the republics budget and asked the federal government for additional funding for education and healthcare. Relevant federal ministries are studying the Chechen governments estimates. We will get final results by the end of the week and after that the package of document will go to the Russian Finance Ministry for approval, Isayev said.
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18 April 2006  Suspected Budyonnovsk raid participant killed in Chechnya
Chechen police operatives and the local Federal Security Service (FSB) department have killed a man suspected of involvement in a hostage-taking raid on the town of Budyonnovsk in the Stavropol territory in 1995. Police officers attempted to detain Umar Isakov, who was on the federal wanted list, in the community of Kadi-Yurt in Chechnya's Gudermes district on Friday, the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax on Saturday. The man attempted to throw a grenade at the policemen and was killed. "Two members of illegal armed units were also detained in the Achkhoi-Martan district," the Interior Ministry said.
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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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