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 380
09.06.06

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

09 June 2006 Former battalion commander of Ichkeria detained in Chechnya
Former commander of the special battalion Borz of the so-called Army of Ichkeria has been detained in the Naursky region of Chechnya , Itar-Tass learnt at the press centre of the Regional Operational Headquarters on Thursday. According to the headquarters, the detainee occupied commanding posts in the so-called Army of Ichkeria: in 1998, he commandered the Naursk regiment, and since 2000, he participated in combat actions against federal forces as a field commander of illegal armed groups. As a representative of the press centre said, another gunman was detained in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. He participated in an attack on several administrative facilities of Ingushetia in the summer of 2004 and was a member of the so-called back-up group which was to capture the school in the Ingush village of Nesterovskaya , the Itar-Tass interlocutor said. The gunman also participated in staging several acts of terrorism in Chechnya . Besides, according to the press centre, two accomplices of gunmen were detained in the Shelkovskoi region of the republic. One of them supplied gunmen with arms and ammunitions and prepared caches for their keeping. Another detainee transported gunmen to the site of acts of terrorism by his car.
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09 June 2006  Sport Against Narcotics
Chechnya has been realizing the Sport against Narcotics programme. According to the deputy head of Russias drug control service Dzhabrail Mezhidov, the service has been supporting healthy life style since it was founded. A person who is going on sport will not harm his health and the service tries its best to attract young people to sport. To this end the service together with Chechen Sports Ministry makes a contribution. A kickboxing tournament has lately been held in Mozdok. The regional branches of the service in North Ossetia-Alania and Chechnya sponsored the tournament. The two branches have been coordinating their work in the past years. The organization of a major kickboxing tournament was an important step in preventing drug addiction. Moreover, sport helps promoting friendship among young people. Sportsmen from the Southern Federal District took part in the tournament. The Chechen team included an officer from the department of internal security of the service, black belt-holder Usman Degaev. He has the 4th Dan in Karate and is merited trainer of the Russian Federation. In fact, world and European championship holders in several sports are serving at the department. Chechen team trained by Saikhan Amkhadov won the sympathy of the audience. Al most all Chechen sportsmen won their fights in advance. The skill and determination to win the fights guaranteed them success. Among the winners of the tournament were Ramzan Mezhiev, Islam Malikov, Said-Magomed Machigov and Khusein Khaliev. Abdul Israilov, Khazmat Betegaev and Aslan Akiev won bronze medals. The tournament in Mozdok showed that though there are serious problems linked with the negligence of customs among youth and consign to oblivion of the traditions of ancestors, the young sportsmen displayed confidence and did not put the honour of the people to shame. They appeared before the audience as handsome, strong, wise and kind sportsmen.
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08 June 2006  Chechen Liaison Office in Perm is 5 Years Old
The Chechen liaison office in Perm is 5 years old. To mark the occasion the leadership of the Perm interior ministry has handed to the head of the Chechen liaison office in the region, Saidkhusain Kanayev, a letter of appreciation, expressing satisfaction with the level of cooperation between law enforcing bodies of the two Russian regions. But both regions cooperation extends beyond law and order and the Chechen liaison office, created in October 2000 on the initiative of the late President Akhmat Kadyrov, plays a key role in the fruitful cooperation between the two regions. According to Saidkhusain Kanayev much has been achieved in the 5 years of existence of the Perm liaison office in Chechnya. Law breaking has almost been brought down to zero thanks to the cooperation between the Perm and Chechen interior ministries. For the first time in the past 15 years young Chechens are being employed, including recruitment to the police force as well as to other regional institutions. The Chechen community in Perm takes part in all social events back home, such as the referendum. In 2004 the Chechen Day in Perm passed off with huge success and was crowned by a concert by Chechen artists at the Perm House of Culture named after Yakov Sverdlov. Sport has not been left out: a team from Perm took part in a sport competition in Moscow staged in memory of Akhmat Kadyrov, and came second. Both Perm and Chechnya signed an economic cooperation agreement in 2003 and in recent times the agreement has been given a new lease of life and the Chechen liaison office now has new assignments. A package of papers has been prepared on the supply of threaded boards and saw-timber to Chechnya on liberal terms and a working team from Perm shall shortly travel to Chechnya. Both Perm and Chechnya have several other potential areas for cooperation: Chechnya boasts of good benzene and fuel while Perm produces aviation engines as well as possesses vast forest reserves. Chechnya requires lots of processed wood and other wood materials for construction work. The Chechen liaison office is also looking after the needs of some 4000 compatriots in Perm and although many of them have settled well in Perm, haven married and raised families, the nostalgia about home is becoming suffocating and irresistible. The liaison office, a new fangled institution in Russia, was set up following the sad events in North Caucasus in general and in Chechnya in particular, to cater for the needs of Chechens in different parts of Russia as well as to make contacts with local authorities and to prevent avoidable provocations. The office has been doing commendable work.
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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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