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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 457
12.05.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

12 May 2007 School Students in Naur Prepared for Final Exams
School students are facing the most critical period in their studies. Graduating students in particular are preparing to leave school and take final exams. Makhmud Magomadov who is curriculum supervisor at the Naur regional education department, is pleased with the students academic performance, the depth of their knowledge. Pre-examination consultations are held for them early in the year. The graduates-to-be have already selected the exams of choice: from exact disciplines to physical culture and the basics of daily security. The students focus on those subjects that appeal to them and help them to go on with their education. Last year, Makhmud Magomadov said proudly, all of our top graduates gained admission at schools of higher learning; in some middle schools up to 98 percent of graduates became college students. Today theyre undergoing studies at colleges in Chechnya, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Pyatigorsk. The Chechen youth generally opt for the professions of oil specialists, lawyers, economists and construction engineers. Applicants are becoming increasingly interested in enrolling at the construction department of Grozny Oil Institute. A poll conducted by the Naur supervisory board among top graduates, many of them intend to seek admittance at that school. The youngsters see a profession in the construction business as one of the most required and prestigious in Chechnya. The level of knowledge acquired by the students does not depend entirely on their own efforts, but also those of their teachers and the technical equipment of the learning process itself. In this respect students in Naur region have some of the best equipped facilities for study. Each school has IT study class-rooms, computer-literacy facilities and some schools are linked with the Internet. Last year four schools in the region received grants of one million rubles under the national priority project Education. And six teachers received grants from Russias President.
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11 May 2007  The Naurskaya Basic School is the Oldest School in Chechnya
The Naurskaya school is the very first school that was opened in the district. It happened almost a century ago in 1911. To mark the event an alley of poplars, leading to the school, was planted at that time. It is gratifying to state that at the beginning of the 21st century the alley still exists. At first the school was elementary, but as time went by it was turned into incomplete middle, middle and in 2000 it became the basic secondary school in the Naursky district. It is not easy to give the exact number of the school leavers and trace their careers, but it is a well-known fact that some of them are directors of schools in the Naursky district, such as schools No. 1 and No.2 in the village of Naurskaya, the Alpatovskaya school and the Naursky center of tourism. At present Bekisat Ibakova is the director of the Naursky basic school. She is really proud of the staff teachers, among whom is certainly Zoya Obozina. Having been with the school for 50 years, she has just retired, but continues to be popular with both school children and colleagues. Every other day Zoya Obozina comes to the school to share her experience with her colleagues. There are also a few teachers, who began their teaching career at the school thirty and even forty years ago. For example, Nina Koritsyna has been with the school for 41 year. At present she is a nominee for the Presidential award. Three teachers hold the title of The Honor teachers. Eight teachers have the highest professional category. Young staff-members are eager to become as skillful and experienced and they really have every opportunity to achieve the best possible results in becoming the best of the best in their profession. The school has twenty teachers and 280 school children. Special attention is paid to their artistic and cultural upbringing. The effect is obvious and certain and it is only natural that the school has already become the winner of a school contest I love you, my native Chechnya five times. The school is no less famous for its achievements in sports, being among the best five schools in the district in this field of school education. Many of the school leavers are champions of Chechnya and the south region of Russia, including Rustam Jabrailov, champion in bodybuilding. The other famous school lerver is Yusup Khabizayev, who on more than one occasion has won various awards in carting. As for Ayub Batayev, now a six-class pupil, he has just recently become the winner of the competition in free style wrestling. Bekisat Ibakova looks forward to the coming centenary of the school with optimism and hopes the majority of the school leavers will attend the event.
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11 May 2007  Servicemen killed in Mi-8 crash in Chechnya identified
The identification of servicemen, who died in a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crash in the Shatoi district of Chechnya, is over in Rostov-on-Don, a source at the military prosecutors office of the combined federal forces in the North Caucasus said on Friday. The identification was done at the state forensic laboratory of the North Caucasian military district, he said. Forensic examinations, including DNA tests, identified every one of them, the source said. The investigation goes on, and all theories are under consideration. Meanwhile, 14 crash victims were buried in Bataisk in the Rostov region earlier in the day. The chopper fell down and exploded while landing five kilometers away from the Sannoi village on April 27. It was transporting servicemen to the location of an operation against militants near the village of Dekh-Yisti. The bodies were severely damaged in the fire. The investigators are considering a technical failure, a piloting mistake and external factors, military prosecutor of the combined federal forces Maxim Toporikov said earlier. Information from the flight recorder is being deciphered. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said that the crash resulted from a technical failure. 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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