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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Cultural events

Renowned People of Moscow-2006 has been brought out. It includes biographies portraits of famous people, including Professor Ibragim Yunusovich Aliroev. Professor Aliroev is a representative of Chechen intellectual elite, who made a great contribution to the development of language, literature and culture of Chechen people. Ibragim Aliroev is Doctor of Philology and Doctor of History, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation, Dean of the Russian and foreign literature department at Chechen University and a member of the Public Council of the republic. Professor Aliroev graduated from the Teachers Training Institute in the city of Osh, Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. The campaign started at the time for the return of the repressed people to their homeland prompted him to come to Grozny in 1958. He joined the Teachers Training Institute in Grozny as an assistant at the foreign languages department and started teaching. He spent over six months among Kistins, Georgian Chechens and participated in harvesting, holidays and marriage and funeral ceremonies to write his monograph, Kistin dialect of the Chechen Language.
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Sport today

Terek Has Hold Two Control Matches

The Terek football team from Grozny, being on a pre-seasonal training session in Antalia, Turkey, has hold two control matches. According to Kazbek Khadzhiyev, press secretary of the club, Terek lost to a team from Serbia 0:1, then it captured a 1:1 tie with a Bulgarian team. It is necessary for Terek to strengthen its forwarding line. That is why Terek signed contacts with new five football players. (more...)

Issue 432
12.02.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

12 February 2007 Kidnappings and attacks down in Chechnya in 2006 - prosecutor
The number of attacks and abductions in Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya dropped greatly last year, the local prosecutor said Friday, in figures contested by a human rights group. "The number of attacks fell by 58.9 percent (39 cases in 2006 against 95 in 2005), kidnapping cases by 63.7 percent (61 cases in 2006 against 168 in 2005)", Chechnya prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. The number of attacks against security services also dropped over the year to 166 from 229 the year before, he said.
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12 February 2007  Alkhanov denies claims he has resigned
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has denied claims he has resigned resignation. "I would like to refute any rumors suggesting my resignation. I have said before that my presidency wholly depends on Allah and the president of this country," a statement by Alkhanov posted on the Chechen president's official website on Monday says. Interfax
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12 February 2007  Seven people killed in Chechnya since beginning of 2007
Seven people have been killed in Chechnya, a troubled region in Russia's North Caucasus, since the beginning of the year, a top military official said Monday. "Four military servicemen, two Chechen Interior Ministry's officers and a local civilian have been killed in Chechnya since the beginning of the year," Andrei Krivonos, the republic's Commandant, said at a session of heads of local law enforcement bodies, attended by Chechen President Alu Alkhanov. He added that during the same period, six militants were killed and 11 detained. "In all, seven explosions, two shootings and six armed clashes have been registered since the beginning of the year," Krivonos said, adding that three bases of militants and 14 arms caches were destroyed. Although the latest war in Chechnya officially ended in 2001, which together with the first left up to 100,000 Chechens dead, periodic bombings and clashes between gunmen and Federal troops still disrupt the republic's comparative calm, with the violence often spilling over into adjacent regions. According to statistics over 50 militants were eliminated and over 500 surrendered to Federal Forces in 2006. RIA Novosti
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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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