Free Chechnya Radio station
Free Chechnya Radio station broadcasting live
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
"The Beauty of Chechnya-2006" Contest. Internet Voting
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.
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