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Chechen economics

Bridge over the River Terek built in five months

The Grebensky Bridge over the river Terek that links Shelkovsky district and the Republic of Dagestan was destroyed in 1995, and this has created lots of trouble for the residents of both republics. About 70% of the residents in the district are from Nozhai-Yurt district. And the people who wished to visit their relatives had to travel additional 100 km since the bridge was damaged. Moreover, residents of Shelkovsky, Naur and Nadterechny districts were used to go to the markets in Khasavyurt. And vegetable and fruit produced in the neighboring districts of Dagestan were basically sold to residents from Chechnya. In short, the reconstruction of the bridge was an urgent and vital task for residents in both republics. The Presidents of two republics, R. Kadyrov and M. Aliev reached an agreement early this year to start the reconstruction of the bridge. The bridge belongs to the highway service of Dagestan and Shelkovsky district had no right to reconstruct it. Dagestan Mostostroi or Bridge Constructing Company started the reconstruction in April. It completed the work in five months. The bridge has six strips with a span of 7 meters. It is 210 meters long. This is the longest bridge in Chechnya. There is no restriction on loads, and any trailer can cross the bridge.
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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 491
18.09.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

18 September 2007 New rehabilitation centre for elders in Chechnya
There are many patients in Chechnya who suffer from spinal illnesses and injuries, suffered strokes and heart attacks and are subjected psychological stresses. All these people need rehabilitation, special treatments and attentive and qualified care. They will get an opportunity to improve their health at the republican rehabilitation centre for elders. The director of the centre Adam Abdulaev says a decree on the establishment of the centre was signed by Ramzan Kadyrov when he was Prime Minister. The construction is subsidized by the A. Kadyrov fund. And Ramzan Kadyrov has closely watched the building of the centre. The construction of the building will be completed shortly. The centre will be one of the most beautiful places in Grozny. There will be lanes and courts in the garden around the building. The centre has 120 beds. Every ward has a bathroom, a shower, a toilet and a fridge. The centre has well-equipped kitchen. National dishes are served for the lunch and dinner. The centre is equipped with advanced medical equipment. The physicians and medical personnel are young and now they follow a training course at the All-Russian rehabilitation centre near Moscow. They will work as rehabilitators in addition to their speciality. The duration of the course is between 30 and 42 days, and it is free-of-charge. The patients who suffered from the above mentioned illnesses will follow a rehabilitation course at the new centre. The course is aimed at helping patients who are lying on the bed to sit and those who are sitting to learn to walk so that they could serve themselves and become socially adapted. The centre plans to help patients from other regions in southern Russia where there are no such centres.
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17 September 2007  Unidentified gunmen fire at interior ministrys office in Nazran Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the interior ministrys department in Nazran, Ingushetia, at 01:00 Moscow time on Sunday, the republics law enforcers have said. They made one shot from a rifle-attached grenade launcher. No victims have been reported. The departments building was lightly destroyed. An investigative group arrived to the site. Police are combing the area to find gunmen. Itar-Tass
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17 September 2007  Enforcement officers had discovered a large weapons cache suspected in Chechnya
Enforcement officers had discovered a large weapons cache suspected of belonging to the prominent rebel, Musa Mutiyev, killed in Grozny last Saturday. The cache contained Kalashnikov rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers, grenades, ammunition and explosives, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Chechnya was devastated by two military campaigns, in 1994-1996 and 1999-2001, after which Moscow significantly scaled down its military presence in the republic. But random fighting and terrorist attacks still occur in the area, despite a widely publicized amnesty campaign announced by Russian authorities. RIA Novosti
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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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