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Modern Chechen literature

The Chechen Nation as Mirrored in Imperial Russias Statistics (1860 1900)

The history of each people, like mosaic, should wind round each person and each village. There is no place for secondary details, as by deleting the seemingly extraneous , we may miss out in such research the most important thing the human factor and regional peculiarities. In this case history is bound to become scholastic interpretive and downright dull. The commoner becomes estranged by such history, losing touch with his or her own ancestors , native village or city, while the lingual scholastics alienates him by its high-flown verbal complexity which frequently betrays a simple desire to camouflage a lack of new facts. Statistics, and particularly based on archives and hitherto untapped, is destined to deal with the fruitless effort. Plain statistics evokes true interest and vivid response from both professional scholars and average readers, as it makes you reflect together with its author and leads to new discoveries in such fields that were thought to have been properly researched. Bits of information gleaned from open statistical sources, throw light on the events and phenomena which carry scant supporting evidence and such information may frequently explain the nature of those events and phenomena.
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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 460
22.05.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

22 May 2007 Two gunmen killed in Dagestan planning terrorist acts
Two gunmen killed in the Dagestans city of Kaspiisk on Monday night were planning a series of acts of terrorism against law enforcers in Makhachkala and other cities of the republic, Itar-Tass learnt at the Interior Ministry of Dagestan on Tuesday. According to the ministry, on Monday two unidentified persons were trying to offer armed resistance to police in Astrakhanskaya Street at about 17.00 Moscow time. One of them was killed on the spot, and the other was wounded and later died in a hospital, a representative of the Interior Ministry said. Police began to have them shadowed in Makhachkala from where they moved to Kaspiisk by minibus taxi, and there it was decided to detained them. Operatives found a notebook of one of them with schemes for making explosive devices, as well as a list of licence numbers of service and private cars of officers of the republics law enforcement bodies. Besides, the gunmen had Baikal and Makarov pistols, several magazines and two grenades on them. The gunmens identity was established. It is 31-year-old resident of the republics Botlikhsky region Dzhunaid Magomedgadzhiyev. According to investigators data, he was on the wanted list as a member of illegal armed groupings that took active part in armed clashes with federal forces on the territory of Chechnya. It is also known that the second criminal is 23-year-old Artur Kurbanov who was wanted by police for making physical injuries. While searching a flat that the gunmen rented in Makhachkalas Engels Street, police found two homemade explosive devices, several grenades and components for other explosive devices. According to the Interior Ministry, during a special operation to detain the criminals, one policeman was injured. Itar-Tass
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22 May 2007  Chechen resident sentenced to 9,5 years in jail for kidnapping
The Stavropol territorial court in Pyatigorsk has sentenced Chechen resident Lechi Bakayev to nine years and six months in a tight security prison for acts of kidnapping in 1999-2000. He has been found guilty under the Criminal Code articles of kidnapping, membership in an illegal armed group, extortion, as well as illegal purchase and carrying of arms. The court proved several facts of the defendants participation in kidnappings as a member of a gang under the command of Ruslan Khaikharoyev. Itar-Tass
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22 May 2007  Two gunmen destroyed in special operation in Chechnya
The bodies of two gunmen destroyed in a special operation on May 18 were found in Chechnyas Gudermes. Then four gunmen were spotted not far from the village of Azamat Yurt near the river Terek, an armed clash occurred, three officers of the Interior Ministry were injured. After that the gunmen were searched for during several days. As Itar-Tass learnt at the Chechen Interior Ministry on Monday, an island in the Terek riverbed near the village of Stepnoye was thoroughly combed. The island is one and a half kilometre long and 300-600 metres wide. The bodies of two killed gunmen were found on Sunday. One of them has been already identified - - it is 25-year-old local resident Radzha Almurzayev, the identity of the second is still being established, a representative of the Chechen Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. Well-equipped shelters with mined approaches to them were also found. At present an examination of the locality is going on. There is no information on the belonging of the given group of gunmen. Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov visited the site of the incident on Sunday.
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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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