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Chechen culture | Ethnic chechens beyond the border of Chechnya: culture ahd life

Gift to Grozny from Chechen Community of Volgodonsk

At a ceremony in Rostov-Don dedicated to the naming of the largest bulk-carrier in honor of Akhmat Kadyrov, Chechnyas first president, the Chechen community of Volgodonsk, a major city in the Rostov region, presented a visiting delegation from Chechnya a memorable gift. This gift, a gilt statue of deer, was wrought by hand and it is a virtual copy of the one that once decorated the city of Grozny. The ideas author, and the leader of the Chechen community of Volgodonsk, Lom-Ali Kagirov, arrived in Volgodonsk back in 1977 after graduating from an institute and getting an assignment in that city where he has lived ever since. He never regretted his relocation but he never broke his links with his land of birth . Even in the most difficult years, as he told our correspondent, nobody ever said a harsh word about Chechens in this city. Right now there are about 300 residents from Chechnya in this city who are mostly engaged in small business or farming. Overall in the Don area and in the Rostov region there are nearly 17,000 expatriates from Chechnya. Mr. Kagirov heads a construction company, which employs 250 workers, including Russians and Chechens. They build at various sites in Taganrog, Rostov-Don and in other cities. Community leaders and their representatives, as well as anyone else, of which there are many, usually gather in Rostov-Don at traditional holidays such as Kurban-Bairam, hiring a café or some other premises, where they can sit back and communicate. The Chechen community of Volgodonsk also closely cooperates with the representative office of the Chechen President in the Rostov region.
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Chechen culture | Ethnic chechens beyond the border of Chechnya: culture ahd life

Chechnya and Chelyabinsk region promote cooperation

Officials from Chelyabinsk region have visited Chechnya. Among these are teachers from higher educational establishments, including the pro-rector of Chelyabinsk State University Andrei Melnikov and poet, Mikhail Anishenko. The delegation was accompanied by head of the Chechen mission in the region Said-Magomed Akhmatgireev. In fact, the two Russian entities have successfully cooperated in many areas in the past years. It is quite important that students and teachers of the university were actively involved in preparing and opening the web site devoted to Akhmat-hajji Kadyrov. At the time a Chechen parliamentary delegation visited Chelyabinsk. When it visited the university it invited the teachers to pay a visit to the republic. The two sides discuss promoting cooperation in education area and training graduates. Many Chechens study in the higher educational establishments in Chelyabinsk region. It is well-known the level of education in the universities and institutes in the region is quite high. (more...)

Issue 497
15.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

15 October 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin discusses with the teachers of the high school No. 5 in Urus-Martan during a video link
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Cheboksari on the 12th of September and discussed the realization of the special national projects devoted to education and healthcare. During his visit to Volga River Federal District he held discussions with the staff members of secondary schools in the regions of Chuvashia, Belgorod and Kaliningrad and Chechen Republic using the Internet video link. Teacher of the High School No. 5 in the city of Urus-Martan took part in the discussion with the Russian President. The high school is among the best in Chechnya and one of the first schools that was granted an access to the Internet owing to the realization of the national education project. Teacher of history, Zurab Guchigov discussed with the President. We asked him to give a brief account about the discussion. Concerning the first question by Zurab Guchigov to the President he said all questions were asked by Vladimir Putin. The President inquired how the national project was being realized in the school. He had expressed desire to know my opinion about the impact of the project on teaching. He also interested in the quality of teaching in Chechen schools as a whole and the level of education in the republic that has radically changed in the past years. Zurab Guchigov thanked the President on behalf of all teachers of the high school for taking care. He told Vladimir Putin that the school was computerized in full owing to the national project. Under the national project five high schools in Urus-Martan received one million ruble-grants and they have an opportunity to equip all classrooms and laboratories as demanded by the teaching process. The President carefully listened to Zurab Guchigov. Vladimir Putin reminded the year 2000 in Chechnya when the education system was started to restore. He said that the level of education in the republic was at a quite high level compared with that period. The Russian President said that national project in education was another step towards upgrading education. The national project will be realized across Russia. Zurab Guchigov said at the end of the 15-minute discussion the President wished teachers of Chechnya and Russia as a whole success in their work.
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14 October 2007  Health Spa Opens in Melchkhi Village A health spa opened on the site of the hot springs in the village of Melchkhi of Gudermess region. The healing properties of these springs were known for some time but their utilization was random and disorganized. Now on the initiative of the Chechen President and in cooperation with the Akhmat-Khadji Kadyrov Fund, a health spa was built at the site meeting all sanitary norms of a curative center. It is located in a two-story building, which houses baths, rest facilities and a canteen. A spacious prayer hall is designed both for men and women. The mens and womens compartments of the center can accommodate eight persons each. Idris Baisultanov, the chief doctor of the Gudermess region, arriving on a fact-finding tour of the facility, first took samples of available curative mud (peloid) at the site. This is very special peloid, he explained, which is just as curative for many ailments and the mineral water from the local springs. These samples will be dispatched for analysis, on the basis of which we intend to expand the health center at Melchkhi and build a large healing complex. Recuperation at Melchkhi is indicted for severe injuries and post-traumatic syndrome, for disorders of the motion system, as well as dermal and mycotic ailments. Such treatment produces favorable effects on rheumatologic and neurological patients. There are also counter-indications for patients with neglected cases of pulmonary ailments, diabetes, hypertension, and heart condition. However, if such patients are in a stage of remission, than by consultation with a doctor, they can also receive treatment at Melchkhi. This center became the first trial balloon of the healing and curative system based on the hot springs of the Gudermess region. In Czarist times health spas were available on the Bragun springs, which in Soviet times became quite popular, particularly with dwellers of the Far North, who came here on vouchers. Also quite curative are the spas in the mountainous regions of the area. There are splendid opportunities for sulfury-logical baths in Gudermess itself. It is impossible to build everything at once, Idris Baisultanov sums it up, but the program has been developed and the President keeps it under his personal control. This means things will get going.
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14 October 2007  Dagestan Always Prays for Peace in Chechnya
The mufti of Dagestan, Akhmet-haji Abdulayev, has participated in the international forum called Islam is a religion of peace and creativity, held in Gudermes. He has said that the forum was well organized and speeches made at the forum were interesting and topical and could not but impress him. According to the mufti of Dagestan, the forum owes its huge success to the mufti and president of Chechnya , heads of regional and local administrations as well as all citizens of Chechnya , helped to make the forum a success. Let Chechens, Dagestanians and all Muslims meet more often under such atmosphere, - prayed mufti Abdulayev. He recalled how he accompanied the late Chechen president, Akhmat-haji Kadyrov, hero of Russia, to Moscow, capital of Russia , when he was appointed to head the Chechen administration. I was happy for Akhmat-haji and I immediately said that the only chance for Chechens was to follow Kadyrov. Today I am happy to know that I have not been mistaken. Akhmat Kadyrov is no more with us but his works to which he devoted all his energies live on in Chechnya . I have seen with my eyes the success of his works when I traveled to Chechnya to attend the forum.Dagestan has always prayed and is praying that everything should be all right in Chechnya,- concluded mufti Abdulayev of Dagestan.
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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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