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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 cafe 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 499
19.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

19 October 2007 Special seminar for Chechen businessmen
Chechen Republic focuses more attention on promoting small business and training well-educated businessmen who work effectively. According to the government committee handling small business, these businessmen are trained at the business centres in Grozny, Gudermes and Shali. However, about 6 000 businessmen have been registered in the republic while another 23 thousand do business without education as a judicial person. Chechnyas Chamber of Commerce and Industry is involved in teaching business to these people. The partnership of the Chamber with the International Labour Organization and the UN Development Programme has offered excellent opportunities to this end. These two organizations called on several regional Chambers of Commerce and Industry to join the programme known as Start and Make Perfect Your Business. The businessmen who wished to be involved in the programme had been chosen in a competition and the Chechen application had been approved. The document clearly showed that Chechnya had reached high level in its development and had capability for the fulfillment of all demands set for the participants. The realization of the programme starts with the holding of a seminar, Start and Make Perfect Your Business at the education centre of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Grozny. Teaching will be conducted by Chechen experts who followed a training course and were awarded certificates of competency by the ILO and UN Development Programme. According to the chairman of the committee for international ties and investment of Chechnyas CCI, Zarema Chinkhoeva, one of those who conduct the seminar, 20-30 businessmen, who have talent in doing business, will be selected out of those who submitted applications to attend the seminar. The list of selected businessmen will be announced on the 10th of October and the classes will be held from 16th through 21st of October. The participants of the seminar will get theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The seminar includes business games, working out business plans and feasibility plans and courses for generating business ideas. The subjects include such topics as the peculiarities in the purchase and control of reserves, documentation, the calculation of expenses, financial planning and marketing. The participants of the seminar will be supplied with handbooks and guidelines with practical recommendations and oral consultations. The seminar will be free-of-charge since the beginners have to be supported in every possible way including financially. The October seminar will be the first step in the realization of the partnership programmes between Chechnyas CCI and ILO and UN Development Programme. According to Zarema Chinkhoeva, she plans to hold talks with the coordinator of the ILO bureau in Russia and the representatives of the Danish Council and International Rescue Committee in Moscow shortly. These organizations have promised to sponsor large-scale seminars for businessmen-beginners. Paid seminars will be organized for businessmen who have achieved success.
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19 October 2007  Four policemen killed in Ingushetia Four policemen were killed when their mobile police unit came under fire in the village of Ekazhevo in the Nazran district of Ingushetia, the Ingush Interior Ministry told Interfax on Thursday. "When the policemen drove up to the republic's military commandant office and got out of their vehicle, unidentified gunmen opened fire on them with automatic weapons. Four policemen from the Russian Interior Ministry's mobile police unit died of their wounds at the scene," it said. Intensive measures have been taken to catch the attackers.
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18 October 2007  Terrorists have no chance to inflame situation in Caucasus again - Putin
All attempts international terrorist make to influence the situation in the North Caucasus are doomed, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. "Terrorists, who try today to inflame the situation in the North Caucasus, have no chance," Putin said replying a question from a Dagestani resident within the framework a televised question-and-answer session on Thursday. 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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