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

Theatre

The Drama Theater Named After Kh.Nuradilov Takes Part in the Stage Without Borders Festival

On April 20th the Stage without borders festival begins in the republic of Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya. The festival is traditional and the capital of the republic Vladikavkaz welcomes the festival once in two years. The Chechneh State drama theater named after Khanpashi Nuradilov takes part in the festival for the third time. Last time the Bozh-Ali performance staged on the basis of a play by A.Khamidov was presented at the festival. This time the theater from Chechnya will show a new performance, based on the French literature classis Skapen, Save Love and staged by Ruslan Khakishev, Honorary Artist of the Russian Federation. The premier is planned for April 22nd. All the leading actors of the Chechen drama theater participate in the performance Nella Khadzhieva, Raisa Gichaeva, Amran Dzhamaev, Bai-Ali Vakhidov and the others. The younger generation of the troupe performs in the premier as well. Adlan Mazhidov, deputy minister of culture of Chechnya, is absolutely sure the new performance will be a great success at the Stage without borders theater festival. (more...)

Issue 372
14.05.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

14 May 2006 Installation of Telephone is Underway in Nozhai-Yurt
When this work was started two years ago the district was linked with the rest of the republic only by four cables and a temporary satellite communication station. Telephones with Moscow numbers had only at the district administration, commandants office, temporary police stations and the post office. The telephone station started to install equipment with a capacity of 112 numbers a year ago. It was planned to install 80 telephones by the end of the year but the technicians linked 91 telephones, particularly in hospitals, fire fighting services, gas supply centre and district administration. At present 20 telephones are installed at organizations and the rest at private houses. The head of the telephone station Dzhabrail Dzhamiev says that people are quite satisfied and the organizations have installed fax machines. This has made their work easier. The main thing is that telephone gives an access to the Internet, the dream of many residents of the district. The station has received many requests. Though the district received a new station it is quite difficult to meet their demands quickly. The new station like the previous one is Kvant-12 with 112 numbers. Dzhabrail Dzhamiev believes the installation of telephones in the district centre will be completed in two years and then linking other settlements will be started. In fact, stationary telephone and mobile telephones supplement each other rather than compete. Dzabrail Dzhamiev says the station cooperates with the companies in installing basic stations of mobile communications. These stations have been installed in Benoe and Zandak recently, and the station at the commandants office was moved into a more suitable place. When stations are installed in the villages of Mesketa, Galaita and Zamai-Yurt the mobile communication will cover the entire district. The head of the district telephone station sells SIM cards. In short, the two sides coordinate their work for the benefit of residents.
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13 May 2006  Chechnya Prepares for the Main Event of the Year
Chechnya will conduct an agricultural census from June 1 through 25, which is described as the main event of the year. It has already launched an advertising campaign to inform the people about the importance of the census. The campaign consists of several stages and all media outlets will be used for this purpose. The residents of the republic get detailed information about the inspectors who will conduct the census and their uniforms and documents that should be shown before filling the questionnaire. Russias state statistics department plans to publish a special newspaper known as Census. It will be distributed as a supplement to the rural newspapers in 44 regions of the country. According to the head of the federal statistics agency in the Chechen republic, Ramzan Digaev, leaflets and booklets with answers to questions of the agricultural census are being distributed in Chechnya. They explain the aims and tasks of the census shortly. Chechnya has to conduct census in over 245 thousand agricultural facilities. The All-Russian census will help in making a comprehensive analysis of the economic structure of a contemporary village, reveling its hidden potential and outlining ways for its further development. Chechnyas statistics agency and Agriculture Ministry have drafted a government decree on conducting the All-Russian Agriculture Census in the republic. They have prepared lists of agricultural organizations, farms, private subsidiary economies and gardening organizations, and this is a decisive stage in conducting the census. Census will be conducted involving individuals and companies. The list of small businesses that will broach the census is being clarified now. According to official reports, about 400 small businesses were registered by the beginning of the year but only 180 are functioning. Over 2650 enterprises have their own plots, and this means they have to be involved in the census. There is a similar situation in farms in rural areas. The first and foremost task is to find the owners of these farms because they themselves have to fill the questionnaire of the census. The most difficult task is to prepare a list of city dwellers who are engaged in agricultural production. Archives where official reports about these people were preserved were destroyed during the fighting. The database about these people can be restored in full only by making a comprehensive inventory in the near future.
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12 May 2006  Chechnyas Media Ministry Conducts a Poll on the Rating of the Republics Leadership
Next week will see the publication of a survey conducted by Chechnya s Media and Nationalities Policy Ministry. Movsar Ibragimov, the Republics Media Minister, told Interfax news agency the purpose of the survey is to study popularity rating of the Chechen Republic s leaders. The survey is conducted within the framework of a monthly social questionnaire, Movsar Ibragimov pointed out. At the present time the results of the survey are being processed and they will be published within a week, M. Ibragimov noted.
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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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