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Im Happy to Revisit My Native Land

Artist-Emeritus of the Russian Federation, Vadim Dombrovsky, who is currently a professor of a theatrical school in Yaroslavl, staged a new musical show for children adapted on the fairy tale by Kornei Chuchovsky. He staged it in the Youth Theater of the Chechen Republic. This is a merry, dynamic and spectacular show, which the director believes, should make happy young viewers in Chechnya and it is small contribution into the restoration of Chechen culture in the Republic. But Vadim Dombrovsky arrived in Grozny not merely to help the Chechen theater with the show. He wanted to revisit his native land, friends and acquaintances. He belongs to the sixth generation in his family which was born and raised in the Chechen capital. Mr. Dombrovsky himself was born in Grozny in July, 1959. In 1976 became an actor-puppeteer in the Chechen-Ingush Republican Puppet Theater. And four years later he went to study at a theatrical school in Yaroslavl. Upon graduation, from 1984 through 1986 he directed a Chechen group in the Puppet Theater in the Chechen-Ingush Republic. Subsequently he was invited to teach at his alma mater and he left his native land. But he revisited Grozny as long as it was possible and maintained contacts with friends and colleagues. The directors latest visit to his native city is linked with his plan to open a training course for actors, directors and decorators, who are badly needed in this theater. The director believes this effort will link him with the native city and will allow him to visit it more frequently. And meanwhile, he is overjoyed with the citys transformation and its rebirth before his eyes.
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Chechnya | Chechen economics

Installation of permanent telephones in the Naursky district IS in full swing

As many as 235 permanent telephones have been already installed in the Naursky district center and the Cossack village of Kalinovskaya. Besides, a raft of up-to-date automatic telephone exchanges with 100 numbers each are installed in the village of Alpatovo and the Cossack villages of Nikolayevskaya and Ishchorskaya. Head of the Naursky telephone center Zoya Savelyeva says that even though some people show willingness to install permanent telephones, the majority still prefers mobile connection. Z. Savelyeva believes, though, that as compared with cell phones, cost-friendly permanent telephones boast better audibility and more reliable connection. By the way, the Naursky telephone center now offers its telephones subscribers a wide-band access to the Internet. At present, subscriber may turn into a Net surfer by putting a relevant application and paying separate Internet line fee. Z.Savelyeva adds that all digitally equipped automatic telephone exchanges will be connected through artificial fiber cable. Even in case of irregular power supply, she explains, our subscribers will be able remain kept in touch with each other-a task that is to be provided with autonomous reserve back ups. (more...)

Issue 487
03.09.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

03 September 2007 Chechnya takes care of handicapped
Save the Generation regional public organization has summed up the results of another competition of journalists. It was founded by Zarema Sadulaeva in August 2001 and focuses on handicapped and helps them to solve their problems, equip them with prosthetic appliances and search for donors and conducts psychological rehabilitation courses for handicapped children. The organization does its best to draw the societys attention to the issues facing handicapped. Its activists have recently carried out a campaign for the construction of ramps for carriages used by handicapped to public facilities in Grozny. In fact, the campaign was widely supported by the public. Special competition for journalist on three areas was held under the project known as Young handicapped in the North Caucasus for a dialogue and social network. The winners were announced early this month. They were Ismail Shovkhanov from the daily Molodeozhnaya Smena for the article Love Story and Zalina Bangaeva form Vainakh Radio and Television Company for her radio programmes. Film War Generation by Isa Eskerkhanov won the first place among documental films. Commenting on the results coordinator of the organization, Salyakh Isaev said priority had been given to original and positive materials created in the spirit of tolerance and peacekeeping that reflected not only problems of handicapped but also showed ways to overcome them. Salyakh Isaev considers the competition successful despite the fact that only 15 journalists took part in it. Not all Chechen journalists displayed their interest in the competition and some others said they were quite occupied. However, the organizers believe the competition attracted the attention of the society and journalists to the issues facing handicapped. Undoubtedly, the number of participants in the next competition will be much more, especially if it was sponsored by the government.
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02 September 2007  House Owners Rights Must Not Be Infringed Chechnyas human rights ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiyev has of late got a number of complaints from former owners of now destroyed private and privatized apartment houses located in Groznys elite blocks of flats that are currently being re-built. The former owners were suggested that they should hand in an application to ask for a 350,000 rubles-worth compensation for forfeiting their rights for personal property and dwelling and stand in line in a hope to get a new accommodation. Naturally, people voiced frustration about the proposal citing inadequacy of money compensation for great damage they have suffered. In a bid to get dwelling of equal value to what they had earlier, the owners decided not to ask for the compensation and make complaints to the office of the Chechen Human Rights Ombudsman about the infringement of their dwelling rights instead. According to an aide to Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, all the complaints were thoroughly looked through and the issue was meticulously studied. As a result, Husein Elsunkayev says, there have been found ways of resolving the problem on the basis of existing legislation and the Russian Government-adopted normative and legal acts rather than additional law regulations. Kh. Elsunkayev explains that the Federal Legislation confers the same status to Russian citizens, who suffered in Chechnya as to those who were damaged by force majors and natural calamities. The reimbursement mechanism should be identical to that of an earthquake or a water flood, when citizens get dwelling certificates acquiring accommodation of equal worth with what they had forfeited. Nurdi Nukhazhiyev sent a special report to the Chechen Government and Parliament in a move to offer the Government to hammer out a program on granting dwelling to citizens who lost it in the course of military operations and renounce their rights for compensation. According to the Russian Governments act #561 on dwelling certificates, the Chechen Government is recommended to send in a relevant application to Russias Construction, Economic Development and Finance Ministries so that they could make a suggestion on applying the acts clause 1.2 to Chechen citizens who lost their dwelling in the course of military operations. The move will be in full accordance with clause 8 of the 2001 Russian governments act #99 on Implementation of social rehabilitation of persons, who suffered in the course of terrorist activities. As soon as the mechanism is put in motion, the reports says, people will be able to get dwelling certificates within the shortest period of time. To acquire the dwelling certificate, they will have to take with them only three documents-an application, a passport and a certificate on forfeiting rights for the accommodation during a special military operation.
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01 September 2007  Imam of the Karshagy-Aul village gets reward
The Chechen Ministry of National Politics, Press and Information has rewarded Imali-khadzhi Murzakishev on the occasion of his 60th jubilee with a diploma to show the recognition of his active work aimed at strengthening of friendly ties between different peoples living in the Chechen republic. The congratulation card, sent from the Ministry, reads: His honest approach to work should serve as an example for other religious and public figures of the republic. According to a spokesman of the department of national policy, Said-Magomed Abdulmezhidov, Imam of the Karshagy-Aul is respected by all Chechens. He has been actively developing Chechnyas state system. Together with Akhmat-khadzhi Kadyrov they used to deal with the construction of mosques in the republic. Said Abdulmezhidov says his department of the ministry is constantly consulting ethnic groups living in the republic, who are placed in the very close contact with the Nogai, Kumyk, Tatar and Avar nationalities in the Shelkovskoy district. Neither there nor in any other districts there were registered any nationality conflicts. We may even assert that the Nogai people receive special attention from the Chechen authorities. In one of the Nogai settlements, in the village of Sary-Su, a recreation center and a mosque were built and a local school was restored. Another mosque was built in the neighboring village of Mirny. On of the main roads of the region, a 15-kilometers way from this settlement to the Kargalinovskaya village, near the Grozny-Kyzlyar route, was asphalted. All vitally important issues for those ethnic groups living in Chechnya are settled quite rapidly. For example, when Tatars living in the Grebenskaya village, asked for a separate mosque, soon it was built at the direction of the President. The Ministry of National Politics, Press and Information will adhere to this course in future and will implement programs aimed at the improvement of living standards in Chechnya.
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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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