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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 458
15.05.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

15 May 2007 FSB officers detain illegal armed group member in Dagestan
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers on May 13 conducted a special operation in Khasavyurt ( Dagestan republic) in which they detained active gunman Radzhab Kurbanaliyevich Pirov, born in 1983. The gunman comes from Kulyab town, Tajikistan and is known under the nickname Radzhab among bandits. Russian FSB forces sustained no losses in the operation. According to FSB sources, Radzhab had arrived in Chechnya when he was a teenager together with his father that was close to Khattab. After Russian federal troops liquidated his father, Radzhab was acting during several years with a bandit group of foreign mercenaries under the command of Khattab, Abu Al-Walid, Abu Havs and now neutralised Khairulla. Staying in Dagestan during the past two years, Radzhab has been a significant figure of the local bandit underground. Radzhab enjoyed great authority and full confidence among gunmen. His father-in-law who was born and lived in Dagestan took part in a hostage-taking raid on Moscow s Dubrovka Theatre in October 2002. The detained gunman is involved in several tens of crimes of terrorist nature. Itar-Tass
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15 May 2007  Up to 300 militants may remain in Chechnya commandant
There may be up to 300 militants on the territory of the Chechen Republic , Chechnya s military commandant Maj. Gen. Leonid Krivonos told Itar-Tass on Friday. The recently intensified clashes in the republic derive from our energetic operations, he said.
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15 May 2007  Ideals of a Just Russia Party are understandable to all ages in Chechnya
The outcome of the three-month work of a Just Russia Partys Chechen branch can be characterized by the above headline. A Just Russia Party is a coalition of Motherland and Life parties and the Party of Pensioners. Its special regional conference was held in Grozny late April. The reason for the move was that head of the partys Chechen branch, Muslim Khuchiev resigned since he was appointed as the mayor of Grozny. The conference appointed unanimously republics Agriculture Minister, Khasan Taimaskhanov as the new head of the Chechen branch. Earlier, he was one of the first members of the Party of Life. The Central Council of the party and Sergei Mironov, its leader and the speaker of Russias Federation Council recommended him for the new post. According to Khasan Taimaskhanov, though a Just Russia Party is a new party it is gaining strength in Chechnya and the country as a whole. The partys Chechen branch has almost 10 thousand members and has primary organizations in all districts, which are headed by respectable people in the republic. Among the members of the party are scientists, MPs, economists, experts linked with culture and education, pensioners and young people. The foundation of primary party organizations has been resumed in Chechnya. The partys Chechen branch is ready to contest at the Russian parliamentary election and other elections. The members of the party support creative policy pursued by President Ramzan Kadyrov and do their best to help the reconstruction of Chechnya. The parts regional branch plans to submit its proposals for working out a strategy and tactics to develop the republic following the partys ultimate target of achieving justice. The political platform of the party is expected to publish shortly in Chechen newspapers. The leadership of the partys Chechen branch plans to hold a meeting with the President, the MPs and the Prime Minister in the near future to discuss the partys involvement in drafting the reconstruction programme and political activity in Chechnya. Khasan Taimaskhanov hopes that ruling structures will successfully cooperate with the party.
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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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