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

Fine Arts

The National Museum of Chechnya Is Being Revived

Vakha Astalov is the director of the National museum of Chechnya. He states with deep satisfaction that irrespective of all the problems and troubles the museum continues to function. At present the museum has 6 branches: Leo Tolstoys literary and ethnographical museum in the Starogladkovskaya village, Arbi Mamakayevs literary and memorial museum in the Nadterechny village, the Makhketinsky regional museum and a literary museum in the Paraboch village of the Shelkovskoi region (it was opened back in 2005). This particular museum is housed in a two-storied building of the 18th century. The Khastalovs, relatives of the great Russian poet Lermontov, lived there. A branch of the National museum of Chechnya also functions in Moscow. It is rather small and exhibits works made of wood and works by Iliyas Tatayev, a famous Chechen sculptor and film director. Abuzar Aidamirovs museum is the newest branch of the National museum of Chechnya. It was opened some time ago in the Masketi village, the writers native one. It is a well-known fact that the National museum of Chechnya was ruined during the first Chechen war. The majority of its collections were stolen and only 98 pictures were saved. Later they were brought to Moscow because it was necessary to restore them. The Moscow-based restoration center named after Grabar, the prominent Soviet artists, has done everything possible to save the pictures. As for the building of the museum itself, restoration of its frontage is completed and active work is under way inside the building. The other most inspiring news is that a long-awaited decision to build a new republican museum complex has been taken at long last. The federal budget allocates 600 million rubles for the new museum complex to be completed by 2010. Currently, the National museum of Chechnya holds as regularly as possible only small exhibitions. Already held are a new ethnographical exhibition, a kind of a photo biennale devoted to the museum itself, an exhibition of cold steel arms of the 19th century, national costumes and national house-hold utensils. Also, works by modern Chechen artists have just been exhibited. A major exhibition devoted to the 190th anniversary of the first Chechen artist Pyotr Zakharov is scheduled for this September. Of course, some of his works will be presented as well, including Self-Portrait and Portrait of Ladyzhensky. The exhibition is believed to be a great success. (more...)

Issue 377
02.065.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

02 June 2006 Chechnya's president Alkhanov says conflict over
Chechnya's president said Thursday that he believed the conflict in the troubled southern republic was over and said a European delegation would be expected in the capital by the year's end. "I am not idealizing the situation in Chechnya," Alu Alkhanov told Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio. "We understand only too well that there are many problems. But I believe that the Chechen conflict...is over." Alkhanov said the region's problems were the result of the long years of fighting. He also said that Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, would host a meeting with representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, one of Europe's most respected bodies, whose rapporteurs have often been critical of the situation in the North Caucasus. "By the end of the year, a roundtable with PACE representatives will be held in the Chechen capital," Alukhanov said. In response to a question about his allegedly poor relations with Chechnya's prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, Alukhanov said they occasionally had disagreements but they had no impact on life in the republic. "There are problems in [every] family," he said. "But our personal relations cannot and will not influence the situation in Chechnya, the state of affairs in the republic."
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02 June 2006  Chechen Recruits will Serve in the Republic
The spring call up is ongoing in Chechnya like in all other parts of Russia. The Chechen military commissar, Major General Said-Selim Tsuyev says that the republic has the list of 600 boys aged 18-27 and all of them will serve in the new South and North battalions, created in the republic on the foundation of the former presidential guard and that are part of the Russian Interior Ministry and the national interior force. 560 boys have already been recruited and have taken the oath of service. 40 more will be called up in June. Despite the existence of both the republican and regional military commissariats no large scale recruitment has taken place in Chechnya until now. By the autumn, when the republican recruitment office will begin functioning in full force, the commissariats will be able to carry out full recruitment exercise, said Major General Tsuyev. He also added that there were many young men in Chechnya wishing to serve in the army on contract. But only those, who have already served as call-ups or have reached the age of 27 years old are qualified to serve on contact. Those older than 40 years are disqualified. Servicemen on contract will have part of their wages remitted to the National Pension Fund. The monthly take-home salary is between 15 to 18 thousand rubles, depending on the rank. All those wishing to serve in either the East or West battalions, that were formed earlier and also deployed in Chechnya, can apply to the regional military commissariat.
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01 June 2006  Public Chambers Development Commission is to Take Control
Alexandra Ochirova, head of the social development commission of the Russian Public Chamber has said that her commission should be entrusted with the control of the spending of the money voted for restoring Chechnya. She was addressing members of her commission at its latest meeting. She has the full backing of her colleagues. It is apparent that Ochirovas proposal will be endorsed soon at the enlarged meeting of the Russian Public Chamber. Alexandra Ochirova was recently in Chechnya and met with government officials and the man in the street that told her about their problems. Money is reaching Chechnya but no tangible results in terms of restoration work can be seen, declared Ochirova. After the visit to Chechnya it was decided to suggest concrete steps of controlling the spending of money allocated for the restoration of Chechnya.
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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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