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Chechen culture | Fine Arts

Nasrudi Dabachkhadzhiyev

According to a common belief, if a person is really talented, he or she is talented in many aspects. And Nasrudi Dabachkadzhiyev proves this statement in full. An outstanding Chechen artist, novelist and poet, he could never imagine before that he would deal with creative work. He used to work in different state organizations and never thought about becoming an artist until 5 years ago his creative life began. He started painting landscapes, Chechen mountains, forests and rivers. This art is a kind of rest for me,- says Nasrudi. The war in Chechnya made him write poems. Now his words are set on music, and Nasrudi himself makes video of the songs. Recently, an exhibition Moments of Life was held under the aegis of the Chechen Ministry of National Policy, Press and Information. People had a chance to see the works by Nasrudi. -In these works he wanted to depict natures grandeur and kindness towards our republic and our nation. An artist always tries to find a common language with the surrounding world, find a moment that would unite people. For me, the most valuable thing in his creative work is the way he showed: no matter what hardships our nation has to live through, Chechen people remain as strong as the mountains-said a friend of Nasrudi Husein Sadykov, who works at the Chechen Presidential Administration.
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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 494
02.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

02 October 2007 UN may open office in Grozny - Chechen speaker
Grozny has confirmed its call to international humanitarian organizations to bring their offices and storage facilities to Chechnya and stated that there are no obstacles to opening a UN office in Chechnya. "There are absolutely no obstacles. Buildings and territories are safe. Let them come, settle and work," Chechen Parliamentary Speaker Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov said at a Tuesday news conference at the Interfax central office responding to a question about the possibility of opening a UN office in Grozny. The Chechen leadership still believes that the international humanitarian organizations operating in the republic should bring their offices and storage facilities to Chechen territory. Interfax
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02 October 2007  Children From The Village of Shaami-Yurt Go To a New School September of 2007 is bound to become a memorable month for pupils of a secondary school at the village of Shaami-Yurt in Chechnyas Achkhoi-Martan district. Children began a new school year in a newly built up school that in the past has desperately needed to be repaired. Before September 1, two important events occurred in the schools public life. Firstly, the school building was completely repaired and secondly, according to the Presidential decree, the school was named after Saipuddi Lorsanov, Hero of Russia, who was killed on duty in July 2007.This year, the Shaami-Yurt school marked the Day of Knowledge with festivities attended by a handful of honorary guests, among them Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov, Minister of Justice Alkhanov, Culture Minister Muzakayev and Head of the District Administration Dadayev. During the festivities, the Chechen Prtesident read a Decree according to which the Shaami-Yurt school was named after Saipuddi Lorsanov and a memorial stele was erected on the school territory. The Shaami-Yurt school was opened in 1977 and initially was designed to teach as many as 320 pupils, but afterwardsas time went by, the number of pupils increased up to 800 children. Currently, the situation has changed for the better. With the Shaami-Yurt school being completely repaired, an additional elementary school building for 250 pupils was constructed on the territory of the main school building. Now that the Shaami-Yurt school has undergobe its basic repair, it hass computerized classrooms as well as specially equipped chemistry, physics and biology classrooms. According to Lema Dadayev, Chechen Minister of Education of Chechnay, more than 3 million rubles were allocated to modernize the school. At present, vital issues of the supply of the new school furniture and lack of foreign language teachers are yet top be resolved. On the whole, though, the Administration of the Shaami-Yurt school has no problems as far as highly qualified staff is concerned. Thus, currently, a handful of experienced mother tongue teachers work there. Asma Suleimanova, head master of the Shaami-Yurt school, believes that among the pupils there are quite a few gifted children who, apart from making good progress in their school studies, claimed to be brilliant singers and dancers. These young artists demonstrated their unsurpassed skill during the Day of Knowledge on September 1. Their performance at the Shaami-Yurt school was a big success.
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01 October 2007  Deadly wave of shootings hits Daghestan
Violence hit Russia's north Caucasus republic of Daghestan early Sunday as nine civilians and a senior police official were shot dead by unknown assailants in separate incidents, a police official said. In the first attack, Magomedrasul Gansov, a top police investigator in the city of Kizilyurt, some 65km (40 miles) from the capital, Makhachkala, was shot as he returned home after work in the early hours of Sunday. The police spokesman said they were aware of the identity of the lone assassin, who is believed to have opened fire with an automatic machine gun, and that a search was currently underway. The second incident occurred early Sunday in the village of Gonoda, in Daghestan's Gunib district, as unknown assailants shot dead a group of nine people, among them a local policeman. The people had been sitting in two cars when the gunmen attacked, spraying the vehicles with automatic gunfire. The police spokesman cited unconfirmed reports that the shootings were the result of an argument between local business groups involving an unpaid debt. 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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