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Chechnya is to celebrate the 62th anniversary of the Great Victory

School Students Looking for Comrade Combatants of the Battle for Stalingrad

As in all of Chechnya, the Victory Day over Nazi Germany will be celebrated with good deeds in the Naur middle school. Preparations for the holiday began there with a month-long cleaning of the schools territory and around a nearby monument to the Unknown Soldier who had died in World War Two. The school students have received a request from Volgograd region to find out the surviving residents in Naur region who had taken part in the Battle of Stalingrad. This task seems to have met the students own desire, all the more so because their favorite teacher Nina Karetina herself comes from Volgograd, where she graduated from a pedagogical institute. The students have already gained some experience in this effort. Last year they began collecting materials on the history of the monument to the Unknown Soldier. Their efforts were crowned with success and the Naur search party from the Naur middle school placed first in a contest among such searchers. This year their efforts will continue. And the schools quarter of combat glory has amassed plenty of information on all Heroes of the Soviet Union from Chechnya and Ingushetia.
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Chechnya is to celebrate the 62th anniversary of the Great Victory

Care for the Living, Memory of the War Dead

It is under this slogan that the Chechen Republic is going to celebrate Victory Day. In keeping with a plan, endorsed by the Chechen government, the festive events, begun in the first days of May, will continue throughout the month. The main celebrations will take place in Grozny, where a mass rally will be held on May 9. Wreath-laying ceremonies to the monuments in honor of the liberator-warriors will be held throughout the republic. But before they take place, all monuments and the surrounding territories will be tidied up. The Chechen governments plan calls specifically for commemorating the names of Chechen World War Two veterans Heroes of the Soviet Union and full bearers of the Order of Glory. The chiefs of regional administrations have been advised to consider the question of naming some streets in their locality in honor of the war heroes. In all regions gala concerts will be held and meetings of World War Two veterans with the youth. Sports events will be held to mark Victory Day in youth free-style wrestling, a judo championship, republican chess tournaments, volleyball meets and in other events. Also planned are conferences and public readings on the theme of the Truth about the Great Patriotic War. All institutions under the Labor Ministry of the Chechen Republic will arrange for festive receptions at which each veteran will receive a memorable gift. The Akhmat-Khadji Kadyrov regional social fund will make financial contributions for WW II veterans. (more...)

Issue 455
05.05.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

05 May 2007 A Visit by Russias First Vice-Premier to Chechnya Helps Bring about Positive Changes in the Health Care National Project
Following a recent visit by Dmitri Medvedev - Russian first vice-premier to Chechnya positive changes have occurred in the implementation of the Health Care national project. Zukhra Kharkimova, Chechnyas deputy minister on health care and the working groups chief on the Health Care national project, who accompanied the Russian first vice-premier on his visits to various medical facilities in the city of Grozny, told us about some of his impressions of what he saw. On his tour of Grozny he visited childrens clinic # 3 which caters today to 15,000 children. Zukhra Kharkimova explained why this particular clinic was chosen for his visit. This clinic works under difficult conditions with its premises on the ground floor of an apartment building completely unsuitable for treating patients. This clinic, she explained, embodies all the ills that are generally characteristic in terms of implementing the Health Care national project on Chechen territory. Dmitri Medvedev had a chance to talk with the clinics chief doctor and its medical personnel, to get a sense of their problems, get to know their views on the implementation of the project in the republic and that was very important to him. The 3d city clinic, however, is neither the worst nor the best in Grozny, Chechnyas deputy health minister said. To date, many medical establishments in the capital have to work in difficult conditions. But doctors in the third clinic have to work in particularly difficult conditions. They dont have proper premises to receive patients. Theres not enough space to install new medical checkup equipment, which the clinic has just received. This is why it was important to demonstrate before the first vice-premier in what conditions our doctors have to work. We believe, Ms. Kharkimova noted that it was sufficiently clear from what he saw in what conditions the medical facilities in the capital are. At the present time the clinic employs only 5 doctors and many specialists are missing. Evidently, this is due to the lack of normal working conditions for medical personnel. The first vice-premier was able to get a feel for the clinics problem. Following his visit to the 3d childrens clinic in Grozny, Dmitri Medvedev issued appropriate orders. We have already felt their impact, Zukhra Kharkimova pointed out delightedly. We are most grateful to the first vice-premier, Dmitri Medvedev, for the care he has shown for us.
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04 May 2007  Chechen law enforcer killed in village of Ordzhonikidzovskaya in Ingushetia
An officer of Chechnyas power-wielding agencies was shot to death in the village of Ordzhonikidzovskaya in Ingushetia. As Itar-Tass learnt at the law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia on Friday, the crime was committed in a cafe on Thursday. An unidentified person fired point-blank at 30-year-old man from a 9-mm-calibre pistol and disappeared, a law enforcer said. During a search operation, it was established that the killed man was an officer of the group Zapad (west). Besides, a local resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzovskaya, who was in the cafe at that moment, was injured in the shooting. He was hospitalised. Criminal proceedings were instituted. The murderer is being searched for.
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04 May 2007  Chechnyas small business needs low-interest credits
It is impossible to develop the economy successfully without the involvement of small business. It is suffice to say that the share of small business in gross domestic product of the member countries of the European Union, the United States and Japan is over 50%. In Russia it does not exceed 11% although small business in post-Soviet Russia is the same age as market-oriented reforms. Chechnyas small business is being promoted by a government committee on small business and entrepreneurism with the fund supporting small business. Fund has given credits to dozens of small enterprises, and this made it possible for realizing important projects and create over 1 000 jobs. It is ready to carry out venture and risky financing without mortgaging on property but on the analysis of business, market and ability to do business by the entrepreneur and his team when there are no banks and enterprises that could give guarantees and the businessmen have no much money. Dozens of people come to the fund daily and its staff helps them to prepare business projects, give recommendations for doing business. To realize the national project on promoting agricultural and industrial complex in Chechnya the fund petitioned the Russian government to be a guarantor before the Rosselkhozbank to receive a loan of 500 million rubles. The fund cooperates with Russias national fund supporting small business and entrepreneurism and Russian-Arab business council and participated in the 6th session of the council which accepted the suggestions by fund for studying. The officials of the fund were included in the Chechen delegation that visited China. Fund submitted a letter to the Chechen government about the importance of the development of a copper mine in Itumkali district. This project could attract one billion US dollars. The fund believes there is no need to attract investors in sectors in which profits are high and cover the cost of quickly and developing mineral resources. It also insists that no foreign workers should be attracted. The most effective way in restoring and developing the economy is to grant low-interest credits for Chechen businessmen in Russian and foreign banks.
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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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