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13 September 2007 All Schools In Chechnya Successfully Started New School Year
For as many as 212,000 pupils a new school year began in Chechnya on September 1. Throughout the country it is Russias Day of Knowledge.
Lema Dadayev, Chechnyas Education and Science Minister, praises highly the republican schools efforts to duly prepare for a new school year. This year he himself examined on the spot a great number of schools in the republic to see with his own eyes that preparations for the new school year are completed. With a raft of school buildings being overhauled, other ones were totally reconstructed whereas several new schools had been built from scratch. The rest of Chechen schools witnessed cosmetic repairs being
made right after the end of school-leaving examinations.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov oversaw the construction, the repairs and the restoration works in 120 of a total of 495 schools in the republic, L. Dadayev says.
The republican schools were being built up within the shortest period of time. Presently, they are equipped with all necessary visual aids and educational supplies and furniture. There are also special type classes with a full set of equipment,-Lema Dadayev explains.
The ministers pointed out that in the run-up to a new school year, three chronic headaches of Chechnyas Education and Science Ministry were successfully overcame. Firstly, thanks to the construction of quite a few new schools all Chechen pupils will go to school in two or one session - a far cry from what the situation was like in 2005, when as many as 95 republican schools had to conduct studies in three sessions. While deploring that in the half of Chechen schools pupils continues to go to classes in two
sessions, L. Dadayev was upbeat about the fact that this year saw more schools shifting to one-session studies.
Secondly, amid strong efforts by headmasters to make up a deficiency of pedagogical personnel in Chechen schools, including those located in the remote mountain areas, we can safely say that the problem is now fully resolved, L. Dadayev indicates. Bearing in mind that last year witnessed many schools failing to fill up some vacancies, during summer recess, principals kept in touch with a host of the republican higher educational establishments in a move to enlist the cooperation of young specialists, the
minister says.
And last, but not least is the solving of the vital issue of supplying schools with textbooks, L. Dadayev concludes, noting that this year, each and every school in Chechnya will be reliably supplied with a variety of pupils books.
Congratulating all the pupils of the republic of Chechnya on the beginning of a new school year, Chechen Education and Science Minister Lema Dadayev wished them every success in their school studies.
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12 September 2007 Changes fort the Better in the Shalinsky Region
As part of the plan for both economic and social development, the whole region has been in the grip of frenzied restoration work.
A taskforce headquarter was set up in August immediately after the visit to the region by Chechen President, Ramzan Kadyrov. Ttasks and objects to be restored were determined and work began in earnest.
Hard work lies ahead; 14 of the regions 27 schools require reconstruction. Head of the regions construction section, Ibragim Umarov is confident the schools will have a facelift before the end of September. In view of the fact that a number of schools, including Avturinskaya, Novoataginskaya, Shalinsky 4th and 6th schools have already been reconstructed, the general state of the regions educational institutions will shortly become the most healthy.
The same is true of the regions health institutions. Cherished dream of Shalinsk doctors about the construction of a new regional central hospital has come true.
Dozens of new mosques will be built and old ones repaired; also to be provided are 12-kilometer road, sport complex and playgrounds. Leisure parks and childrens leisure zones are also to be built. The pulling down of all illegal structures in only ten days in the central Street of Shali indicates the fast pace of work. The Street is to be widened to15 meters.
Chechen civil construction firm, Chechen construction department, Nurenergo, Elektroseti, Stroindustry firm, Interbusiness and Kazbek are all involved in the rebuilding campaign. All the contractors work in two shifts and without rest day. The planned tasks will shortly be fulfilled, a member of the taskforce has confidently predicted.
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11 September 2007 Chechen Businessmen Are Also to Turn into Lawmakers
The Chechen Trade and Industry Chambers foreign relations and investment committee has thrashed out a cooperation agreement with the republics parliament.
According to Zarema Chinkhoyeva, Chairman of the committee, almost all trade and industry chambers in Russian regions are in close cooperation and contacts with the local authorities and hence the Chechen Chamber cannot be the odd one out. We think it is unproductive and inexpedient to work out legislations and normative acts on the regulation of entrepreneurship without the participation of businessmen, said Z. Chinkhoyeva.
The Chechen Chamber is already collaborating with the republican committee on small business, ministry of industry as well as with a number of appropriate committees of the republican Peoples Assembly. Our representatives are always welcome by officials of the named bodies, - said Z. Chinkhoyeva. We usually have productive dialogue. Deputies value the opinion of businessmen and our experts since they help to make new laws more effective.
With the expected signing of the cooperation agreement in September cooperation between businessmen and lawmakers will be raised to a new higher qualitative level and from now on both experts of the Chechen Trade and Industry Chamber and businessmen will take part in the forming all economic related legislations. There is also plan to establish cooperation with the Department of foreign contacts in the Chechen President and government Administrations, aimed at exchanging information pertaining to external economic
activity and joint thrashing out of a programme for organizing forums, seminars and exhibitions.
At present, the Chechen Chamber together with the economic development and trade ministry is getting ready to take part in Kuban 2007 economic forum in Sochi . Work is going on about information materials and pavilions as well as investment projects. Experts of the trade and industry Chamber are anxious to present Chechnya more effectively and to a wider audience at the Sochi economic forum.
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Chechen history
Chechens one the worlds most ancient people
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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