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03 February 2007 Library is a center of teaching and learning law principles
Libraries are not only aimed at attracting people to reading books, but also at upbringing inshakable civil positions. Libraries should teach people to think analytically about the world they live in. These institutions should also focus on human rights as the highest value of any democratic society.
Nina Kharonovna Usmanova, head of the childrens library department 5 in the Znamensky district, is sure that librarians are able to make a valuable contribution to the educational process. She participated in a republican contest dedicated to civil upbringing of young people and won the second prize.
Children must be taught the culture of democracy since their early childhood, says Nina Usmanova. The pupils of her school study the principles of democracy and the norms and values of a state governed by the rule of law. They also learn to use their rights and to respect the rights of others.
If a young person knows the basic principles of democracy, he or she wont be taken aback on the Election Day. They will never hesitate
- whether to vote or not and for what? They will be responsible for their country and thus wont let anybody manipulate themselves.
Nina published a training appliance Teenager: rights and duties, in which she collected all necessary materials on the topic. It will certainly help young people better understand the essence of law principles.
The 5th library has successfully held a seminar What a constitutional state is like. The pupils also conducted a role play game Presidential elections, where they performed as members of an election commission, observers and journalists. When they come to the polling station, they will be able to make the right choice- says Nina Usmanova.
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02 February 2007 Express delivery widens its service in Chechnya
The SPSR-Express company is one of the leaders of the national system of express delivery throughout the country. Just recently it has opened its branch in Chechnya . According to Mekhan Apayev, head of the branch, it offers a wide range of services within the republic, including the from door to door form of express delivery. Airplanes are used to deliver mail outside the republic. Letters to Moscow are on their way for two days while mail to Nizhny Novgorod on the great Russian Volga river goes for three
days. Besides, the Chechen branch of the SPSR-Express company delivers orders taken via the Internet. It constantly monitors the process of delivery and knows for sure where this or that order is at this particular period of time. Each sender is informed about the final delivery of his or her order either by phone or e-mail. Of course, letters are the main subject of delivery and then go all sorts of documents while parcel posts up to 30 kg rank third. It is expected that by Match of the year the company will
be able to deliver a one-ton cargo.
In the near future post offices of the SPSR-Express will be opened in Gudermes, Argun, Achkhoi-Martan, Shali, the village of Znamenskoye and other major population areas.
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02 February 2007 Number of abductions declines in Chechnya - deputy interior minister
The number of people abducted in Chechnya is decreasing, Col. Gen. Arkady Yedelev, Russian deputy interior minister and head of the operational headquarters in the North Caucasus , said in an interview published in the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper on Friday.
"This criminal business is shrinking," he said.
"Twenty-eight abductions were registered by the prosecutor's office of Chechnya last year. The figure for 2005 was 108, and 153 in 2004," the general said.
Asked whether he is convinced that the process of normalizing the situation in Chechnya is irreversible, Yedelev said: "I am absolutely sure."
However, abductions in Chechnya remain a matter of concern among Russian human rights activists.
Interfax-AVN
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