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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The Beauty of Checnhya-2006

You will hopefully agree that beauty is a subjective notion. Any woman can be inimitable, the most beautiful and charming to the lovers eye. Yet people tend to aspire for the ideal and this is what must have prompted beauty pageants. Now that we come to think of it, Chechens thought some day recently, our girls are by no means less beautiful than those elsewhere. Why not hold a beauty pageant of our own? So this year it will be for the first time that a beauty pageant has been held in Chechnya, Chechen Beauy-2006. 22 girls of the 250 claimants have made it through the knockout tournaments to the finals and will now compete for the beauty queen title on the 27th of May. All participants in the competition will get diplomas, while the winner will be awarded a Toyota car and invitations to beauty pageants in Europe to represent Chechnya . And now we choose the one who you think is the most beautiful, cast your vote for her and wait impatiently for the official results.
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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 367
26.04.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

26 April 2006  Two Advanced Telephone Stations to Be Installed in Grozny
Two advanced automatic telephone stations (PBX) will be launched in the Chechen capital shortly. One of them in the Zavodskoi district is designed to handle 2,000 numbers, and the second in the Oktyabrski district on Minutka square is to handle 1,000 numbers. Now Grozny residents will gain access to international communication and can get in touch at any time with their relatives and acquaintances living in Chechnya and elsewhere. Both stations will provide Grozny residents with modern communication services, including automatic connections. They will be able to forward phone calls or if needed to refuse them. Telephone directory numbers will be shortly connected to the stations. These PBX were purchases in Moscow and according to specialists, they are of high quality and measure up to all international standards. Three more modern PBX will be commissioned next year. After that the problem with telephone directory numbers in the city will be completely eliminated. To date telephone lines connect all new residential buildings.
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25 April 2006  Two Russian servicemen died in an accident and two were injured in Chechnya
An armored personnel carrier overturned in the mountains in southern Chechnya. Two servicemen were killed in the accident and four others sustained injuries, Interfax news agency quoted Tuesday its sources in the Itum--Kali Interior Ministry regional department in the Republic. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over on a road leading from Gukhoi village to Kadoi in the Itum-Kali region of Chechnya, thus leading to the death of two servicemen and various injuries of four more, regional police sources revealed. The injured men were brought to a hospital and investigators were examining the site of the accident.
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25 April 2006  Stepashin notes insufficient financing of rebuilding effort in Grozny
Sergei Stepashin Chairman of Russias Accounting Board believes that reconstruction work in Grozny is being hampered by insufficient financing. The countrys leadership should instruct the relevant agencies to speed up rubble removal. Spetzstroi construction company has been appointed the Chief work contractor. Theres no shortage in equipment and skilled personnel, but the principal component is missing financing, Sergei Stepashin said in Grozny on Monday. He also emphasized that up to now the primary source of financing has not been determined. Sergei Stepashin said that in 2005 1.5 billion rubles were unspent, which were allocated in the final months of last year. The Accounting Board chairman also touched on the issue of compensation payments to citizens who had lost their dwellings and property. Later in the day, while speaking at the Chechen Parliament, Sergei Stepashin called for the restoration of Grozny in short terms. He underlined that restoration effort concerning Grozny should be primarily handled through the state budget. Sergei Stepashin also noted that the Russian governments instruction on immediate work on rubble removal is not being fully complied with. At a signing ceremony on cooperation between the accounting boards of Russia and Chechnya , Sergei Stepashin called for a speedy rebuilding of the Republics construction industry. Sergei Stepashin and Lomel Yakhyayev his Chechen counterpart signed an agreement on cooperation. The agreement envisages in particular joint revisions and personnel training in Moscow for the Chechen Accounting Board.
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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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