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Chechen economics

The Biggest Bridge In Chechnya Is Slated To Be Put In Operation This Fall

According to Ruslan Khuseinov, head of Chechnyas Motor Ways Department, this fall will see the biggest bridge over the Terek River being put into operation in the republic. Presently, this bridge is being built up over the Terek River along the Chervlyonaya-Grozny motor way, - Ruslan explains. - The 260-meter-long bridge is bound to become the biggest in Chechnya. The longest bridge now in operation is in the capital of Grozny and has a length of more than 100 meters. R. Khuseinov said that this summer witnessed as many as three bridges being constructed in Grozny-on Butyrina, Subbotnikov and Krasnoflotskaya streets with another large facility located on Batumskaya Street to be restored soon. The Chechen government so far does not give the go-ahead to reconstruction works of the bridge on Batumskaya Street due to money problems, Ruslan says, adding that his department is ready to start yje reconstruction process at any time. Aside from the bridges in Grozny, - he continues, - we managed to restore as many as four bridges in a number of Chechen districts that located along the Gudermes-Kurchaloi motor way. All the bridges are already ready to be put into operation. Ruslan Khuseinov underlined that his department used only modern and high quality building materials for restoring Chechen bridges that are expected to be fit for Chechen peoples use for at least next hundred years.
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Chechen culture | Fine Arts

Director Of the Oiskhar Childrens Arts School Wins State And Public Recognition

This years August saw a momentous event in the life of Adam Ilyasov, Director of the Gudermes childrens Arts School. By a Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Adam Ilyasov was given the rank of the Honored Worker of Arts of Russia. Besides, he got the Public Opinion gold honorary medal for his personal fruitful and selfless pedagogical activities to socially rehabilitate children by means of art, for his significant contribution to the revival of the spiritual and cultural life in Chechnya and his active patriotic civil position. The history of the formation and development of childrens additional art education in the Gudermes district is inseparably linked with Adam Ilyasov, who, upon leaving pedagogical college in Makhachkala, served as a teacher in drawing in the Gudermes pedagogical college and afterwards opened childrens Arts School in Gudermes. Since 1979,Adam Ilyasov has been Head of the Oiskhar Arts School that is bound to have become his lifetimes main work. On top of that, Adam Ilyasov helped three childrens arts schools in the district and the arts department of the republican arts school to open a public organization The Art-Serlo. Over the past five years, it has successfully been elaborating and implementing numerous projects aimed at rendering assistance to gifted children. The Art-Aerlo is also involved in creating peacekeeping programs to be implemented in Chechnya and Dagestan. Presently, The Art-Serlo is preparing for a festival of the Caucasian peoples to be held in Grozny. A big photo exhibition will be part and parcel of the event. It will include works by Adam Ilyasov and drawings by children from Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and the North Ossetia. (more...)

Issue 489
10.09.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

10 September 2007 The parliament in Chechnya condemned the attacks in Ingushetia
The parliament in Chechnya on Saturday condemned the latest wave of attacks on civilians, security forces and politicians in Ingushetia. The attacks were aimed at destabilizing the situation in the republic, a Chechen parliamentary statement said.
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10 September 2007  Policeman wounded in attack in Ingushetia A policeman was wounded when a police station was fired upon near the settlement of Surkhakhi in Ingushetia overnight. An unidentified attacker fired at a station where Russian Interior Ministry policemen were, Ingushetian sources said. The attacker escaped from the site. Searching began to find the person. Itar-Tass
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10 September 2007  The Rainbow of Cultures Festival Was Held in Chechnya
August saw again the republican folk festival the Rainbow of Cultures. Various ethnic amateur clubs and companies took part in it. The festival was held in the Naursk district at the local House of Culture and became an event that for the second time was organized by the Chechen Culture Ministrys Center for Amateur Arts. The first festival was held in the Chechen capital of Grozny last year. The news that the festival would be held in the Cossack village of Naurskaya became a pleasant surprise for the locals, who were pleased to know that they would welcome the festival. The Naurskaya Housing Maintenance and Utilities Board headed by Said Abazov was quick to make cosmetic repairs of the House of Culture thats slated to be overhauled in the foreseeable future. Luckily, there was enough space both for the audience and the contestants that presented three folk events. The Nogaisk womens amateur song and dance group opened the festival to be followed by the Cossacks folk songs [resented by thelocals from the villages of Dubovskaya and Grebenskaya with the Kumiksk group presenting its literary composition named The Prayer. On top of that, amateur womens artists from the Russian national center performed songs dedicated to the first Chechen President Akhmad khadji-Kadyrov. Performances by the Naursk ensemble, the little Cossacks as well as folk groups from the Shelkovsk Tatar and Sharoisk Avar cultural centers were also a big success. The spectators from Grozny, the Naursk and other districts enjoyed the concert that showed them the multi-national culture of the republic of Chechnya. When the festival was over, both the participants and its guests could taste various dishes of national cuisine prepared by representatives of all the cultural centers participating in the event. The guests also visited an exhibition of amateur and folk and decorative and applied arts that presented Avar and Nogaisk utensils and hand-made silver articles. Valentina Alenicheva, head of the Naursk Culture Department stresses that festivals of the kind are of great importance to the multi-national republic. With some nationalities leaving the republic, those who stayed are doing their utmost to develop their national culture, traditions and arts in a bid to present these cultural values to their immediate neighbors. Significantly, even the remote Sharoisk district managed to send its representatives to the festival. Valentina Alenicheva expressed hope that the third Rainbow of Cultures festival would see the Meckhetian Turks joining the event that is sure to drastically win from their participation. Our main task for today, - Alenicheva concludes, - is to make the festival more accessible to other various ethnic groups, including even those who so far do not have their own cultural centers.
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10 September 2007  Gunman involved in policemen murders killed in Grozny
A second member of a group of terrorists who committed a series of murders of policemen and prepared attacks against a number of high-ranking officials was killed in a special operation in Grozny on Saturday. It is Musa Mutiyev, so-called emir of Grozny, who was a member of the group headed by Rustam Basayev who was killed earlier, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said. The gunman was also close to Chechen terrorists' leader Doku Umarov. 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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