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

With Thoughts of a Republican World War Two Museum

In Chechnya as in the rest of Russia commemorative events, meetings with war veterans, renovations of museum expositions are carried on to mark Victory Day and remember the war veterans. The village of Lakha-Nevre in Nadterechny region has opened a special exposition at its memorial museum name for Arby Mamakayev. The display began with a single stand but today it has an entire room to it. Here one can learn about 1,800 participants of the Great Patriotic War from Nadterechny region and see photographs of most of them. According to Eduard Mamakayev, the museums director and Chairman of the Chechen Writers Union, the war expo was replenished by 70 percent over the past year. Photographs, military decorations of their relatives, who had fought against Nazis, are being sent to the museum from Nadterechny region, as well as from other regions in Chechnya. Eduard Mamakayev said that it was impossible to explain to everyone that the exposition was primarily designed to commemorate the war veterans only from Nadterechny region. The museums director said tearfully that the number of surviving war veterans is dwindling each year. There are presently only 50 survivors out of the total 27,000 war veterans in Chechnya. And the fewer they are, he said, the more attention they should get, those who are still alive and to the memory of their comrades-in-arms who have passed away.
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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 456
08.05.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

08 May 2007 Day of Chechen Language is to be Celebrated
Day of Chechen Language is to be Celebrated Preparations are going on in the Shelkovskoy region to mark the Day of the Chechen language. A special council is set up to facilitate the event. Schools, libraries, houses of culture in all the regions of the republic are closely involved in the event. A literary and musical composition My native language is my glory is to be rendered in the regional house of culture and will be devoted to the Chechen language as well as to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.It is only natural because the day of the Chechen language takes place on the eve of the Victory Day to be marked on May 9th. According to Israpil Salgiriyev, who heads the cultural department in the Shelkovskoy regional administration, a quiz will be held to find out how deep the Chechens know the Chechen language. A great number of the locals speak the language at home, but few can use it correctly on the literarily level. Therefore, the quiz is aimed at helping such people to get to know at least some of the unfamiliar words and expressions used in books. The regular visits to the region by several prominent Chechen writers also help to spread the Chechen language and Mr. Salgiriyev says that the Chechen language has been gaining more prestige in his region, citing as an example workers in the cultural department of the regional administration, whose oral practice in the Chechen language is quite well, but who find it difficult to write in it. Mr. Salgiriyev is happy that all residents in the region, irrespective of their nationality, mark the Day of the Chechen language. He mentions the Russians Olga Grachyova and Valentina Moroz, lead singers of the regional ensemble, and Albina, a Tatar girl, who sings Chechen folk songs effortlessly. The Day of the Chechen language has become the favourite of all the inhabitants in the Shelkovskoy region, concludes Israpil Salgiriyev.
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07 May 2007  Four servicemen die, 4 get injuries in Chechnya
Four servicemen of the Interior Ministry died and four got injuries in two armed clashes with gunmen in Chechnya. As Itar-Tass learnt at the Chechen Interior Ministry on Monday, six gunmen were spotted on Sunday in the house of a local resident in the village of Khatuni of the Vedeno region. During an operation to detain them, the gunmen offered armed resistance. The operation was conducted by servicemen of the A.Kadyrov Regiment, the regional interior department, as well as the Federal Security Service and the military commandants office. Two servicemen of the A.Kadyrov Regiment at the Chechen Interior Ministry and a serviceman of Interior Troops died in shooting. Other four servicemen of the Interior Ministry got injuries, a representative of the ministry said. Three gunmen were destroyed in return fire. It was established that they had been members of Supyan Abdulayevs gang. A sniper rifle and two Kalashnikov submachine-guns were seized at the site of the armed clash. Besides, servicemen of the A.Kadyrov Regiment conducted a special operation to detain a 30-year-old resident of the village of Mesker-Yurt, who has been on the federal wanted list since 2003, in a forest in Chechnyas Shali region one and a half kilometres from the village of Belgatoi. He offered armed resistance, opening fire for effect, and wounded a policeman who died on the way to a hospital, the ministry representative said. Itar-Tass
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07 May 2007  Powerful explosive device rendered harmless in Grozny
A powerful homemade explosive device has been rendered harmless in the Zavadsky district of Grozny. As Itar-Tass learnt at the Chechen Interior Ministry on Saturday, on Friday morning, during engineering reconnaissance, officers of the Military Commandants Office discovered a radio-controlled homemade explosive device planted in a drain-pipe passing across the carriageway 1,300 metres from the check point on the territory of the Zavadsky district. The explosive device consisted of a 152-mm artillery shell, a plastic bottle with explosive and an electric detonator. It was rendered harmless on the spot. At present search measures are being taken to establish persons involved in planting it. Besides, a homemade explosive device was discovered and rendered harmless on the territory of a cemetery in the village of Nozhi in the Vedeno region. The explosive device consisted of a half-litre plastic bottle with powder of silver colour and electric wires. 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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