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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 495
05.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

05 October 2007 There is a high demand for the products of Electropult enterprise in Chechnya and the North Caucasus as a whole
The Electropult factory in Grozny has started production effectively. In fact, there is a high demand for these products not only in Chechnya but also the North Caucasus as a whole, said its director Taus Asaev. At present the factory produces power panels and 400 volt equipment needed for the republic and other electrical appliances that are being used in various enterprises. The factory also plans to produce equipment used for voltages between 6 and 10 kilovolt. The demand for the product is very high. The factory could be proud of making contribution to the reconstruction of the republic when taking into account 95% electrical equipment and appliances were destroyed in 2000. Now power supply has been restored owing to the commissioning of the factory, said Taus Asaev. According to the director of Electropult, the most pleasant fact is that the products of the factory have won prestigious awards at many All-Russian exhibitions. For one, the factory won a silver medal at the recent International Economic Forum in Sochi. Electropult won the highest award, Gold Cup at the Electrical Engineering Exhibition involving producers from CIS member countries in Rostov. The factory is equipped with advanced equipment and experienced workers have been recruited. All this has made it possible for producing high quality products. Concerning the realization of the products, Taus Asaev said that the factory had worked directly with the buyers such as power supply facilities, housing and communal service and building construction companies. The factory delivers large consignments to other regions. The first consignment was supplied to the compressor station in Volokalam, and the station is satisfied with the products. The factory does its best to protect its reputation as a producer of high quality products, said Taus Asaev.
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04 October 2007  Film about Chechnya and its President A film shooting group of the Avrora Company has spent in Chechnya almost one month. The group was headed by a senior documental film director of St. Petersburg, Peoples Artist of Belarus, Arkady Dinkevich. It included operator Kiril Tikhomirov and television journalist Zalina Lakaev. The group shot a full-length documental and publicistic film about Chechnya and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. The 53-minute film was shot in Grozny, Gudermes and other Chechen districts. The working name of the film is Ramzan Kadyrov - His Heart in Mountains. The scrip was written by A. Dinkevich together with a prominent Chechen poet and publicist L. Yakhyaev. It is a film about the past and present of Chechnya and lessons from history. The film uses archive documents. Heroes of the film are people of different ages and various professions who were involved in tragic events in the recent past. They talk about themselves, their homeland and events in past years. Their evidences are some kind of documents at the time. The hero of the film is President Ramzan Kadyrov. The producers tried first and foremost to show him as a person who is open to people and pays attention to their needs and aspirations and peoples love to him. The first channel of Russian television plans to show the film.
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03 October 2007  Gunman kills two policemen in Dagestan
An unidentified gunman fired an assault rifle at a Lada car carrying two policemen in the community of Dagestanskiye Ogni, the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local law enforcement source told Interfax on Wednesday. "A local police inspector was killed on the spot, and an escort guard policeman died later at a town hospital," the source said. A receiver cover from a Kalashnikov assault rifle and 23 cases from 5.45-mm cartridges were found at the scene.
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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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