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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Architecture

The Arghun museum and conservation area and its landmarks

The Arghun state conservation area of special historic and architectural interest, founded in 1988, includes historical, cultural and nature monuments located in the upper Sharo-Arghun and Chanti-Arghun Rivers. It embraces over 150 settlements of several hundreds of living and fortress towers of various states of preservation, some 20 cult buildings, over 150 half-underground and above-ground tombs. Experts dates these the period from 10 to 15 centuries AC. Many architectural complexes of the area, including Khoysky, Khimoysky, Pachoksky, Maistinsky and Zhekaloysky, are mountainous tomb settlements of the late Middle Ages. A hundred years ago the Arghun gorge was called a gorge of towers. Three citadels stood at the Shatoi gorges entry. Over hundred towers were situated along the Chanti-Arghun gorge up to the border with Georgia. They were situated in such a way that, standing at a tower, the one could see a fire place in a window or in an arrow-loop of another tower. Likewise, Chechens signaled military threats or learned about enemies approaching. For centuries the Arghun towers have been damaged. Yet Chingizkhans chronicles wrote about a war with those living in the towers and the destruction of these buildings. Hundreds of towers were badly damaged at the 19-centrury Caucasian war. Towers stone was used as building material.
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Fine Arts

New literature and artistic Painting devoted to works by Kharon Isaev

The Chechen governments archive department has published literature and artistic painting album, which is devoted to life and works of merited painter of the Chechen Republic, Kharon Isaev. According to the head of the department, Magomed Musaev who is the editor-in-chief of the publication, Isaev is one of the prominent painters of the elder generation in the republic who shared all difficulties faced Chechnya with its people. This is the first ever such album published in Chechnya. It includes articles and comments on the works of Kh. Isaev by intellectuals of Chechnya, painters, writers, poets and journalists. Among these 15 authors are the members of the journalists union of the Russian Federation Akhmed Tagirov, the former director of the Checheno-Ingushia state museum, Zarema Musaeva, the director of Chechnyas national museum Vakha Astalov, the merited scientist of the Russian Federation and Checheno-Ingushia Autonomous Soviet Republic, Academician Ibragim Aleroev. The album includes all works by the painter linked with the republic, landscapes, portraits, still life, water colour paintings and caricature. There are chapters, Scope of Russia, Local Colours of Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan Motives and Far and Near Jordan. (more...)

Issue 441
19.03.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

19 March 2007 Militant refuses to surrender, sets off bomb in Ingushetia
A militant wanted for terrorism and banditry set off a bomb and killed himself in Ingushetia, a source at the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. The police blocked the militant at 40, Krasin Street in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya. He refused to surrender and opened fire at the officers. Then the bomb went off. A woman died in the explosion together with the suspect. The policemen were not hurt. Two pistols, including one with a silencer, and cartridges were found in the house.
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19 March 2007  Two traffic policemen wounded in Makhachkala, local dies
Two traffic policemen and a passerby were wounded in Makhachkala overnight. Another man died of wounds, the Dagestanian Interior Ministry press service told Itar-Tass on Friday morning, citing the updated information. Earlier it was reported that three policemen died and one passerby was wounded. The incident took place near a house in the city at 22:00 Moscow time on Thursday. When traffic policemen asked a BMW car driver to present documents, a passenger rushed out of the car, opened fire and ran away. The driver also escaped from the site during the exchange of fire. Two policemen and a passerby were wounded. A 52-year-old man, the owner of the house where the shooting took place, died of wounds. The men from the car were not caught hot on the trail in the interception operation launched by police. According to the preliminary information, the attackers are aged 23 to 25. They are being sought. An official investigation into the case has been launched. Itar-Tass
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19 March 2007  FSB chief says yearlong work of anti-terror committee effective
The head of the national anti-terror committee and Federal Security Chief Nikolai Patrushev believes that the committees year-long activity met expectations of those, who initiated its creation. Among the key results he named stronger coordination of efforts of all bodies of power in the fight against terrorism, mainly in neutralizing terrorist gangs and their ringleaders. In his interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily he pointed to better detective work in the field, which helped to avert terrorist acts and ensure security of important international high-level meetings. Last year, the committee exposed and arrested 150 terrorist and extremist organizations, 35 gangs, 501 organized criminal groups involved in trafficking of arms, munitions and explosives. Around 896 criminals were sentenced to prison for terrorist and extremist activities. Some 700 criminal cases are being investigated. Patrushev pointed out that 546 militants surrendered in the government s amnesty offer. The facts of voluntarily surrender were registered in all republics of the North Caucasus, Yakutia, the Stavropol territory, the Astrakhan, Irkutsk and Rostov regions. We have grounds to believe that most of the surrendered will never return to criminal activity, he said. The FSB chief expressed confidence that the authorities preventive measures in combination with the use of force helped bring the situation in Chechnya back to normal, which attracted attention of experts from different international organizations. As for the role of international cooperation in the war on terrorism Patrushev cited as an example the elimination of an Algerian citizen and Arab mercenary Abu Mushab, who had come to Chechnya to train terrorists. He said in relations with its foreign partners Russia will direct its efforts on eliminating double standards in resolving the issues pertaining to extradition of terrorists and other criminals, who are granted a refugee status in some foreign countries. The committee will continue its efforts to form an international database to counteract terrorism, Patrushev said. He pointed to the role of mass media in the fight against terrorism and said we will be able to counteract terrorism by joint efforts of the authorities and society. Itar-Tass
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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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