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Terek Football Veterans Held a Friendly Match Game

A friendly match game between the veterans of the Terek football club was held in Grozny at a stadium named after Belimkhanov. It was organized at the initiative of Khaidar Alkhanov, Minister of Sports of Chechnya and a former coach of Terek. The most famous footballers of the 70th-80th of the last century came to Grozny. Among them were Yakushkin, Mikheyev, Deniyev, Kayushnikov, Zaitayev, Saltukhanov and Ibragimov. Before the football match its participants had a friencly and un-official meeting with the Minister of Sports.
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Modern Chechen literature

Chechen poetry of the 1920s and 1930s

During the late 1920s a number of Chechen scholars, among them Kh.Oshayev, were studying the political, religious and revolutionary aspects of Chechen history giving a strong boost to the budding Chechen literature. The poets were the first to respond. Poems about the historical past of the Chechen people first appeared in the late 1920s early-1930s, recreating the images of the heroes of old who once fought and suffered for the benefit of their people. In their poems M.Mamakayev (Bloody Mountains, 1928, and My Mothers Words, 1934), S.Baduyev (Partisans, 1934), A. Nazhayev (Shepherd, 1936) and others used the historical heroism of the Chechen folk songs in a bid to better understand the civic standpoint of their lyrical characters. The folklore thus became a much-needed stepping-stone on their way to creating Chechen national literature. The poets were writing easy-to-understand verse at a time when the process of Chechen enlightenment was only beginning to unfold. (more...)

Issue 466
12.06.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

12 June 2007 Pros and Cons of RosselkhozBank Credits
Credits for private household farming obtained from RosselkhozBank are becoming ever more popular in Chechnya, although this useful tool has its share of problems. RosselkhozBank provides credits to the general population as part of the national priority project in the field of the agro-industrial complex. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, however, became dissatisfied with the way the project is being implemented in Chechnya and he criticized the Republics Agriculture Ministry for it, according to Ernst Katayev, a correspondent for Zov Zemly newspaper. His criticism was taken into account and as of this year crediting effort began picking up. Moreover, after a recent visit to Chechnya by Russias vice-premier Dmitry Medvedev, who is in charge of national priority projects in the country, Russias Agriculture Ministry sanctioned issuing credits in Chechnya without a collateral but with a reliable guarantors pledge. Erst Katayev reports that over 300 farmers in the Grozny rural area have already received credits with more than 3,000 securing them throughout the Republic. The encountered problems, however, with recouping the credits. In keeping with the Russian governments decree # 72 dated February 4, 2006, the Agriculture Ministry is supposed to subsidize to credit recipients a substantial part of interest payments which they owe to the bank. The agreement between the bank and the borrower is a mutual accord, which does not stipulate postponements on credit interest payments. Therefore, the borrower is obliged to pay interest to the bank in full, irrespective of the Agriculture Ministrys subsidies or none. Experience shows, however, that such subsidies for various reasons are either delayed or fall through entirely. There is no doubt that resolving the issue of subsidies to cover interest payments would permit more residents in the Republic to avail themselves of RosselkhozBank credits. According to experts, the situation with interest payment subsidies could be greatly alleviated by a three-tier budget envisaging separate budgets for local administrations. But this financial arrangement has yet to be introduced in the Chechen Republic.
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11 June 2007  Koshkeldy Trade Center Makes Its Debut
To develop trade and economic ties of Chechnya with other regions of Russia the government of Chechnya decided to hold an inter-regional fair of food and goods. The fair will be held from June 14 to 17 in the Gudermes region on the territory of one of the largest trade complexes in the Northern Caucasus Koshkeldy. The fair will be held for Chechen small business first and foremost. According to Musa Shavkhadov, director of the Fund for the support of the small business of Chechnya, the republican businessmen will offer visitors agricultural and confectionery products. Small business involved in dressmaking and shoes-making industries will present their goods as well. Besides, a great variety of folk souvenirs will be presented. Musa Shavkhalov contacted directors of similar Funds in other regions of Russia and was pleased to know that they would certainly participate in the Gudermes fair. By the way, the Chechen government issued a decree envisaging that all those coming to the fair would be met at the administrative border of Chechnya and would be accompanied directly to the Koshkeldy trade complex. All in all, about six thousand participants are expected to the fair. The fair will also offer a varied cultural program. The Chechen Ministry of Culture spared neither time nor efforts in making it as interesting as possible. The Republican committee for the Youth decorated the territory of the Koshkeldy trade complex. In general, the fair will become the first event of the kind to be held in the republic and will start the history of the youngest trade complex. It is situated in an ecologically clean place. The complex has a great number of entrance and exit routes and more than three thousand sales outlets. Musa Shavkhalov is sure that in the not too distant future the Koshkeldy trade complex will certainly become a major regional market place and a challenge to, say, the one in the Pyatigorsk neighboring region.
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10 June 2007  Nadterechny School No.3 is Connected to Internet
Headmaster of Nadterechny School No.3, Nurdi Khalmyshev is satisfied with the results of the just ended school year, that are most positive and his pupils successful participation in different regional and republican school contests. The school came 3rd in the festival of children creativity, and was among the prizewinners in a number of sport competitions. Two of his pupils are champions in the republican chess tournament. Khanmurzayev, a class 10 pupil and the Russian and CIS champion and the winner of several international competitions, has continued to do well as a member of the Russian team in the Oriental Hand Combat. 556 children attended the school in the 2006-2007 school year and they all happily took part in the Last School Bell ceremony. Among the 22 final year pupils there are potential gold medal winners since they have been excellent pupils from the class one. 63 children have finished class 9. The Headmaster is equally satisfied with the teaching staff. 14 of the 46 teachers have higher teaching classification. As the end of school year was approaching, the Chechen education and science ministry carried out general inspection and the school passed with flying colour. School No 3is one of the oldest in the republic. Next year it will turn 70. All these years the school has been functioning in one and the same building that now certainly requires major repair. In the meantime, new furniture is being supplied to the school, and a computer class has been organized. Quite recently, a team of specialists from Moscow have connected School . 3 to Internet and teachers are learning how to operate the gadget so that by September they can start introducing the children to Internet secrets.
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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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