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Chechen culture | Modern Chechen literature

The World of Books Shop Is Opened in Grozny

The first ever World of Books shop is opened in Grozny, capital of Chechnya. The event was timed to the birthday of the first Chechen President, Hero of Russia, Akhmat-haji Kadyrov. Present at the opening ceremony were deputy ministers of the Chechen national policy, press and information ministry, V. Garsayev and V. Svetlichny, chairman of the Chechen Union of Writers, E. Mamakayev, head of the RosOkhrankulturys office in Chechnya, I. Munayev and several other members of the creative and intellectual communities of Chechnya. The opening of the shop is a significant event in the cultural life of Chechnya , since books occupy prominent place in the lives of human-beings, - declared V. Garsayev, while V.Svetlichny said that the world of books would promote the spiritual and moral upbringing of the people of all ages. For his part, I. Munayev stressed that the opening of the bookshop was a gift to all Chechens, but especially to children, who would find all the necessary textbooks, fiction and many more in it. E. Mamakayev was confident that the opening of the bookshop would lead to an increase in the number of readers in the republic since both previously written and contemporary books can be subscribed to in the shop.
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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. (more...)

Issue 493
25.09.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

25 September 2007 Chechen resident surrenders about 50 kg of TNT to police
A resident of Chechnya has voluntarily surrendered a big amount of explosives to police, ITAR-TASS learnt at the law enforcement bodies of the republic. A 52-year-old man came to the police department of the Shelkovskaya regional centre on the weekend. He voluntarily surrendered 49 kilograms of TNT, a law enforcer said. In this connection, a check is being carried out. The origin of the explosive is being ascertained.
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25 September 2007  Supreme Court cancels long prison sentences relating to 2005 terrorist act The Russian Supreme Court has cancelled the sentence of three residents of Chechnya who had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 18 years to life in relation to the July 19, 2005, terrorist act in Znamenskoye. The court sent the case of Ayub Tuntuyev, Anzor Agamerzayev and Aslanbek Vitrigov for a retrial to the Supreme Court of Chechnya on Tuesday. Fourteen people died in the terrorist act: ten police officers, one FSB officer and three civilians. Thirty-four were wounded. Interfax
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25 September 2007  Chechen deputy PM: Riyadus-Salikhin militant group crushed
The Chechen armed separatist movement is routed completely, and the so-called Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion, a separatist suicide attack group, has been destroyed, a Chechen deputy prime minister who is in charge of the republic's security and law enforcement agencies has claimed. "Reports disseminated by individual media outlets that the Riyadus- Salikhin terrorist group is in Chechnya are so much propaganda and are designed to produce a semblance that the terrorists here have some power," First Deputy Prime Minister Adam Demilkhanov said. "Everyone is perfectly aware that [warlord Shamil] Basayev's groups that styled themselves the Riyadus-Salikhin Brigade have been completely destroyed, but, despite this, time and again, lies get disseminated that that terrorist organization still exists, lies that are invented by their foreign sponsors," Demilkhanov said. "Media reports that some group called Riyadus-Salikhin has claimed responsibility for bombing the Neva Express primarily pursue the aim of discrediting the Chechen people and stir an atmosphere of mistrust of Chechens in the country," he said. Neva Express was a train that was derailed on the Moscow-St. Petersburg railway several weeks ago after tracks were blown up. "Thereby scattered remnants of bandit groups are trying to look as an organized force in the eyes of their sponsors and to persuade them to provide more financing," Demilkhanov said. Interfax
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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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