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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Ethnic chechens beyond the border of Chechnya: culture ahd life

Our target is to help compatriots

The Chechen mission headed by Saidamat Musaev has been successfully working in Bashkortoastan for six years. According to S. Musaev, it is targeted at helping compatriots. He has done much good work for the benefit of Chechens. Among these are supply of humanitarian aid to Chechnya, school textbooks and books for libraries, clothes, footwear and medicine for orphanages and clinics and rendering help to residents of Chechnya, who arrive the republic, in organizing their education, work and healthcare. The hospitals in Bashkortostan accepts about 60-70 residents of Chechnya a month and treat them free-of charge. Many young people from Chechnya study in universities and institutes in the republic. Truly, they come across lots of difficulties in the first two years and this is linked with poor knowledge. However, the higher educational establishments do their best to help these students to improve their knowledge, and experience shows that students study well in the senior courses.
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Chechen cuisine

Chechen cuisine

"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. And it was not until the late 19th century that many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of their own. (more...)

Issue 443
28.03.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

28 March 2007 International project in healthcare and education realized in Chechnya
The European Union realizes a new programme aimed at rebuilding and developing the North Caucasus. The programme was drafted with the close cooperation of Russian and local authorities. UN childrens fund, UNICEF and World Health Organization started to realize a project in healthcare and education as a part of the programme. This part of the programme has been officially presented recently at a ceremony in Grozny. Among the participants of the ceremony were Chechen officials and representatives from EU, UNICEF and WTO. The second part of the programme is now being drafted. It is linked with the improvement of living standards and the economic reconstruction of Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia. UNICEF started its work in the North Caucasus in 1999. It has two offices in Ingushetia and Vladikavkaz. It realizes humanitarian projects in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria. UNICEF helps Chechen children in education and healthcare areas and realizes programmes in psychological rehabilitation and mine scare. Currently, it realizes long-term projects in Chechnya, and the local authorities help it to this end. UNICEF has resumed rendering help to the Chechen republic in 2007 in the above mentioned areas and also in supplying drinking water and teaching children mine safety and tolerance. It works with the Chechen government structures and nongovernmental organizations in these areas. The head of UNICEF in the North Caucasus, Dr. Rashed Mustafa and the head of the WTO mission Azret Kalmykov expressed gratitude to Chechen authorities and personally to President Ramzan Kadyrov for cooperating successfully in realizing the project aimed at improving the quality in healthcare and education areas as a part of the three-party agreement with the involvement of the EU. The agreement was signed in September, and the EU gave 13 million euros to improve education and healthcare system in Chechnya and Ingushetia. About 70% of this sum will be spent in Chechnya. UNICEF also helps secondary schools to equip them and buy school textbooks. It has organized courses for teachers to upgrade their professional level in the past 10 years. About 2000 Chechen teachers will follow these courses in Chechnya, Stavropol and Moscow in the near future. Under the project UNICEF will supply the Republican Childrens Clinic and Maternity Hospital No. 2 with advanced equipment and help their doctors to upgrade their profession.
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27 March 2007  Some 90 armed groups remain active in Chechnya - commander
Some 70-90 illegal armed groups consisting of up to 800 militants are still active on the territory of Russia's troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a senior military commander said Tuesday. Although the active phase of the North Caucasus antiterrorism campaign officially ended in 2001, periodic bombings and clashes between gunmen and federal troops still disrupt Chechnya and nearby regions, including Daghestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachayevo-Circassia. Commander-in-Chief of the Interior Ministry Troops Colonel-General Nikolai Rogozhkin said that "today some 70-90 armed groups, consisting of 600-800 militants, are still operating on the territory of Chechnya." The figures are different from those announced last week by Colonel-General Arkady Yedelev, a Russian deputy interior minister, who said that 37 illegal armed groups, consisting of about 450 militants, were active in Chechnya. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov promised last Monday that all illegal armed groups in his republic will be eliminated within two months. Kadyrov, elected Chechen president earlier this year, said that "the counterterrorism operation in the region has been completed and today we are fighting criminal [not terrorist] elements in the Republic of Chechnya." Rogozhkin said that as the situation in Chechnya stabilizes, the number of Interior Ministry troops in the republic, currently totaling 22,000, will gradually drop. He added that Russian interior troops also plan to hold a joint antiterrorism exercise with Chinese police in the North Caucasus in the fall this year. He said the exercise is intended to focus on drilling for joint actions aimed at eliminating armed groups in mountainous areas. RIA Novosti
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27 March 2007  Chechen president goes to Medina, Mecca for lesser Hajj
President of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday departed for the lesser Hajj to Mecca and Medina. He embarked on the pilgrimage ahead of an official inauguration ceremony. The Chechen government said that Kadyrov arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday accompanied by Chechen Mufti Sultan Mirzayev, Finance Minister Eli Isayev and Deputy Prime Minister Ziyad Sabsabi. His plane belonging to the Rossiya air carrier landed at Jeddah airport from where the Chechen delegation went to the holy Muslim city of Mecca where Kadyrov intends to take the Umrah, or the lesser Hajj, visit shrines in Mecca and Medina, as well as to say prayers in the Masjid Al Haram. The trip to Saudi Arabia is an important event in my life. As a true Muslim and committed believer that assimilated the faith in Allah since childhood I considered it necessary to visit Muslim shrines ahead of taking office, Kadyrov stated. He said he intended to visit Mecca and Medina and step to these Muslim shrines. To say prayers for the sake of prosperity of the Chechen Republic and the whole Russia. Its my duty. I intend to ask Allah to send us peace and well-being, the Chechen president said. 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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