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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International contacts

International Medical Corps Works in Chechnya

Various non-profit organizations from all over the world work in Chechnya, rendering the republic humanitarian aid. International Medical Corps is among them. Lately the format of their work has slightly changed. International Medical Corps (IMC) is a non-profit humanitarian relief organization providing medical training and emergency health care worldwide. Volunteer doctors and nurses established it in 1984. In 2000 International Medical Corps came to Ingushetia to work in camps for refugees. Mobile IMC teams rendered medical care and visited the most populated areas, where they always opened first-air posts. As time went by, mobile IMC teams began building there laundries, public eating houses and laid water and gas pipes. Bureau of the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid is the main financial donor of the International Medical Corps. At present, the majority of the former refuges have returned to Chechnya. So, it is only natural that International Medical Corps has moved to the republic too. Its main current task is to work out and implement 14 projects for the rural and industrial development of the 6 villages of the Achkhoi-Martan region. These projects envisage an opening of agricultural mini-firms as well as mini-plants producing brick and various building materials. To open them, a group of several local families gets money from International Medical Corps. The practice has proved to be a great success in other countries of the world; that is why International Medical Corps has brought it to Chechnya as well. Whats more, Bureau of the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid has already allocated money to implement the above-mentioned projects in the two other rural regions Groznensky in Chechnya and Khasaviyurtovsky in the neighboring republic of Dagestan. Then, International Medical Corps plan to come to the main mountain regions of Chechnya to implement the projects there as well.
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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 444
31.03.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

31 March 2007 Tariff on telephone services in Grozny remains unchanged this year
Tariff on telephone services have been increased in many Russian regions this year. However, they will remain unchanged in Grozny. This is linked with several reasons. Firstly, intercity telephone network of Grozny has no technical capability of carrying out control on payment by time. Secondly, calculations on profitability of the citys telephone network have not been carried out yet. Thirdly, to introduce new tariffs time is needed for preparing the residents of Grozny for making payments for new telephone communications services since they have remained unchanged since 2000. Currently, tariffs in Grozny are the lowest and 1.5-2.0 times less than that of other regions in the North Caucasus for both individual customers and corporative customers. The monthly payment for the use of a subscribed telephone number is 80 rubles. Intercity telephone network of Grozny plans to introduce three different tariffs by next year, payment by time, combine and unlimited. These tariffs are now in force elsewhere in Russia. The head of Groznys telephone network believes that the new system will not be a burden for families with low income. Each resident can choose a tariff according to his capability of making payments and a time limit for personnel purposes.
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30 March 2007  No reduction of federal troops in Chechnya - deputy minister
A contingent of Russian federal troops stationed in Chechnya will not be reduced until all armed groups are eliminated in the troubled North Caucasus republic, a Russian interior deputy minister said Thursday. The statement, made by Colonel-General Arkady Yedelev, contradicts information from Commander-in-Chief of the Interior Ministry Troops Colonel-General Nikolai Rogozhkin, who said Tuesday that as the situation in Chechnya stabilizes, the number of Interior Ministry troops in the republic, currently totaling 22,000, will gradually drop. "According to some estimates 80% of armed groups [in Chechnya] consist of foreign mercenaries," Yedelev said. "That is why the reduction [of federal troops] is out of the question until they [the mercenaries] are neutralized... and the issue of inspiring international terrorism in Russia is resolved." Yedelev already said last week that foreign mercenaries, trained in Bosnia, infiltrate the North Caucasus republics via Ukraine. "We have concrete facts of [North Caucasus] penetration by mercenaries from Bosnia, who have been trained there," he said. 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. Rogozhkin said Tuesday that "today some 70-90 armed groups, consisting of 600-800 militants, are still operating on the territory of Chechnya." Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov promised last week 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." RIA Novosti
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30 March 2007  Central Bank withdraws licenses from Khasavyurt Bank
Russia's Central Bank said Thursday it has revoked the operating licenses of two banks over breaches of banking legislation, including the law on money laundering. The Moscow-based Bank for Development and Investment and the Khasavyurt Bank (Daghestan, North Caucasus) were stripped of their licenses and put into temporary administration for failing to comply with banking laws and Central Bank regulations, and for violations of laws on money laundering and the financing of terrorism, the Central Bank press office said. The banks will be under temporary administration until the appointment of a receiver or a liquidator, the CBR press office said. 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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