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Chechen culture | Modern Chechen literature

The World of Birds of Chechnya Book

The prominent Chechen poet, Saeed Magomed Gelagayev, whose hobby is bird watching, has written a book about the birds of Chechnya, called Olkhazariin Dune - San Dune, (World of Birds - My World). The book contains names, pictures and information about 230 birds that inhabit Chechnya . There is a brief pen portrait of each bird species, their habitat and other information. In a forward to the book, Editor in Chief of the Nana magazine, Lula Zhumalayeva writes: Without doubt, the books quality lies in calling the birds by their original names from time immemorial. According to L. Zhumalayeva, apart from its pure applied significance from the point of view of ornithologists, S. M. Gelagayevs book represents the listing and keeping of the layer of the half-forgotten words, the disappearance of which will amount to one of the greatest impositions on the national language culture. S.M. Gelagayev has been an ardent lover of birds from his childhood, keeping some as pets at home and studying their behavior. Having dedicated to the national birds several of his poems, he has long dreamed about writing a book about them. He spent hours in the library and found out that several original Chechen names of the birds have been lost in dictionaries as well as in life.
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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 492
21.09.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

21 September 2007 Ingushetia leader says keeps normal relations with Chechen leaders
Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov said he was maintaining normal relations with the Chechen leadership. "The relations with the Chechen republic and Chechen people have been and will be fraternal in all times, regardless of the political situation. I have normal relations with the republic's leaders, too, I'd call them brotherly; and we'll keep them. There's no other way," Zyazikov told a news conference here on Thursday. At the same time, the president said he was categorically opposed to the reorganization and enlargement of the region. "No matter who and in what high offices might plan this experiment, we -- a multi-ethnic people of Ingushetia -- don't need it. I think, the Chechen people doesn't need it either," Zyazikov said. "I've repeatedly stated that I don't accept any enlargements, optimization, structural changes, deportations or any other configurations or territorial political experiments. I believe we've passed this historic period. We know it took a heavy toll on the people. It ended in some people's fleeing their Motherland; many are still unable to return home. At one point, we lost our statehood, which happened in the 1920s," the president said. "Ingushetia doesn't want any more experimenting. I absolutely don't accept it," the Ingush leader added. Itar-Tass
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21 September 2007  Two Interior Ministry servicemen wounded in gunfire in Ingushetia Two Interior Ministry servicemen were wounded in a gunfire attack on their truck on the Caucasus federal highway near the Ingush village of Yandare, a local police source said. The incident happened at about 12:30 p.m. Moscow time on Thursday. The driver lost control, and the truck skidded off the highway and overturned. Interfax
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21 September 2007  Ingush residents missing in Chechnya found
Two residents of Ingushetia who went missing in Chechnya some time ago have been found, Ingush President Murat Zyazikov has said. "They have been found somewhere in the Shali district of the Chechen republic," Zyazikov said at a press conference at the Interfax main office on Thursday.
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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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