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Cultural figures

Balkan Anzorova (1923-1996)

Balkan Anzorova was never pampered by the attention of literary researchers, critics and readers. She was rarely published and seldom translated into Russian. Therefore she remained almost unknown to an average reader. Balkan Anzorova was born in 1923 in the village of Urus-Martan where her parents were exiled from Doikur village as kulaks (well-off farmers). After finishing middle school in 1937 she started out on her own career as a teacher at crash courses to eliminate illiteracy. Later she worked as a leader of young Communists (pioneers), a club director and a librarian in her native village. But the final two years before the general deportation of Chechens, Balkan worked as a chairperson of an enterprise, incorporating sewing, trading and other small consumer businesses. While still a school student, B. Anzorova became interested in Chechen folklore and poetry. She learned and recorded folk tales, songs and legends and endowed with a good voice and playing well the Russian accordion, she performed them at various amateur parties. Subsequently she began composing her first verses on current issues. Early on her talent and hard work earned her popular recognition. At the age of 16, for her great accomplishments in the dissemination of popular arts, B. Anzorova was awarded the order of the Sign of Honor and in 1940 she was accepted as a member of the USSR Writers Union. Her first verses were published in a collection of Chechen and Ingush poets called Our Songs. She continued composing verses while being in exile without a hope that they would ever be published and her songs ever performed. But when Alma-Ata radio in Kazakhstan began broadcasting in Chechen, B. Anzorova commenced singing on it herself.
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Chechen history

The history of Russian-Chechen relations

The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six stages. The first stage The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was trying to expand its influence in the region by political and economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. The second stage The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas prevalent. (more...)

Issue 452
27.04.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

27 April 2007 Gudermes Teacher Training College
The first person children meet on their first visit to school is an infant class teacher and usually school children keep good memory of the teacher for the rest of their lives. Graduates of the Gudermes pedagogy school living and working in Chechnya and beyond its shores remember with fondness their first teachers. Established in 1964 the Gudermes teacher training college has come through the difficult 90s. Its rebuilding began in 2000. Unfortunately, it is not over yet. This summer it is due to turn out the 41st group of starting classes pedagogues. The 40th group brought the number of graduates to1000 and they now work in Chechnya and different regions in Russia . It is heartening that most of them remain faithful to chosen profession and teach beginning class pupils. Sayid-Magomed Kasumov, recently appointed Director of the Gudermes teacher training college is unhappy that the yearly meeting with ex-pupils cannot be held in the own building of the college and that teaching and learning are taking place in uncomfortable environment. The rebuilding of the college continues. The Gudermes teacher training college has highly qualified and experienced teachers and several more highly trained pedagogues have applied for job in it. Each year the number of people wishing to study in the college increases, but, regrettably, due to lack of accommodation more pupils cannot be admitted and more teachers cannot be employed. Mr. Kasumov has raised the issue with the regional administration, the Ministry of education and sciences and the Chechen government. He has prepared detailed programme of the building of a fully equipped complex for the college and he is confident that with the current positive attitude toward education in Chechnya and Russia , his programme will shortly be implemented.
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26 April 2007  2,000 firearms stolen from southern Russia depots in 2006
More than 2,000 firearms were stolen from army depots in southern Russia last year. A total of 3,600 weapons are listed as stolen in the region, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office department in the Southern Federal District Anatoly Arsentyev said on Wednesday. The situation with illegal weapons trafficking in the region remains difficult. More than 2,000 weapons thefts have been registered here since the beginning of this year. Armed forces remain the key supplier of weapons to the black market. "The theft of weapons from depots is impossible without corrupted officials," the deputy prosecutor emphasized. Two officials were held criminally responsible for corruption this year, Arsentyev added. Itar-Tass
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26 April 2007  Detained Chechen militant shows base of militants
A member of illegal armed units was detained in the Chechen town of Shali, the press service of the republican Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The detainee, born in 1983, confessed that he was involved in a gang under the command of the so-called field commander Suleiman Imurzayev from May 2005 until March 2006. Later Imurzayev was destroyed in the fight, the press service said. The detainee also showed a base belonging to militants in the forest about one kilometer southeast of the Shamil-khutor village. The base consisted of ten dugouts admitting up to 30 people each and was partially destroyed. Gunmen were hiding there 2-3 months ago, the press service said. Criminal proceedings were instituted over the case. The investigation is underway. The Chechen Interior Ministry also noted that a resident of the Vashendaroi village came to the alert force of the Shatoi district police department and laid down voluntarily ammunition, which he had found in the Kharsenoi village 650 30-mm projectiles for a infantry combat vehicle-2 and about 1,000 cartridges. The investigation into the case is underway.
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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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