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 378
03.06.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

03 June 2006 To Follow a Training Course in Brazil
The organizer of the Zii Bazhaev football tournament for youth, Said-Emin Bitsoev has said two Chechen teenagers will leave for Brazil to learn to play football. The two best players will be selected after the tournament and included in the Russian group that will leave for Brazil. The group consists of 30 boys of ages between 13 and 14 years. The selecting tournament will be held from May 28 through 31. Chechen children, Muslim Bataev from the village of Zakan-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, and Mansur Chitigov from the city of Argun will be included without taking part in the tournament. After the training course children will continue their studies at a special school near Novorossisk where football skills will be taught by Brazilians. Deputy of the Lower House of parliament Sergei Shishkarev was the initiator of the creation of the Russian school of Brazil football. He heads the Langsdorf Fund specially established for the realization of the project. Langsdorf was a Brazilian Consul in Russia in the 19th century. Cultural and sport project of Russian school of Brazil football is designed for training Russian children to play football by Brazilians and teaching young Brazilians choreography by the best Russian ballet masters. The project was established by the United Russia Party and its chairman, speaker Boris Gryzlov heads the board of guardians. The first group of children will leave for Brazil in July. They will follow a training course at the playgrounds of Premiere division clubs in the state of Santa-Catherine. The first school of classical Brazil football will be opened in the village of Kabardinka near Novorossisk in the same month and then another two in Abrau-Dyurso and near Moscow. Brazilian stars will train Russian children. S.Shishkarev pointed to the importance of patriotic upbringing of sportsmen. He hopes at least 3 from these schools will be included in the national team by 2014 when another World Championship will be held.
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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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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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