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 446
06.04.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

06 April 2007 Two members of illegal armed groups detained in Moscow
Two members of illegal armed groups have been detained in Moscow on suspicion of staging a number of attacks on police officers, police sources told Itar-Tass on Friday. The suspects, a resident of Dagestan and a person coming from the Grozny district of Chechnya were detained at Moscows Belorussky railway station in a search operation conducted by officers of the Centre T of the Russian Interior Ministry and operatives of the main police department for the Southern federal district. According to the investigation, the detained are involved in an attack in which fire was opened from assault rifles and grenade launchers on the building of the Kurchaloi district police department in Chechnya in September 2001, as a result of which three policemen were killed and another 10 wounded. Besides, they are suspected of staging an armed attack on the Vedeno district police department in October 2001 in the course of which machine guns, Kalashnikov assault rifles and five Makarov pistols were stolen, the police source said. In the view of the investigation, the detained persons are also involved in an armed attack on the Avtury settlement in the Shali district of Chechnya in June 2004. Three officers of the Chechen presidents security service were killed then and another two were wounded. Aside from this, the detained are suspected of firing at officers of the OMON special police force of the Lipetsk region in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny in June 2006. Further investigative actions are being continued with the detained. Itar-Tass
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06 April 2007  Policeman investigating economic crimes killed in N Caucasus
Unknown gunmen in Russia's North Caucasus territory of Dagestan shot and killed a police officer in charge of investigating economic crimes. The incident occurred in the territorial capital Makhachkala at around 22:30 Moscow time Thursday. The killed officer was a police captain, a duty officer at the Makhachkala department of the Interior said. "The crime took place on Gamidov Prospekt avenue close to the building of the office for economic crimes investigations," he said. It is believed that the criminals fired from a car. A team of operatives and investigators was working on the spot at the time of reporting. Itar-Tass
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06 April 2007  Chechen government resigns
The government of Chechnya has resigned. It was announced at a meeting of the cabinet of ministers of the republic chaired by acting Prime Minister Odes Baisultanov. According to Baisultanov, the government has tendered its resignation in accordance with the Constitution of the Chechen Republic and the official inauguration of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Itar-Tass
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen history

Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi ) are the world s most ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, territorial, economic and cultural links and language. Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies, in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages (4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation for their statehood.
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