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Sports | Sport today

A.Ediyev Again Won a Silver Medal

In Grozny, Chechnyas Sports Ministry officials, relatives, friends and sports buffs welcomed Aslambek Ediyev, a silver medalist of the World Weight-Lifting Championships in Thailand. A. Ediyev also took part in the last two world championships, where he managed to win a bronze and silver medals respectively. Thats why hopes were high that the Chechen weight lifter would return home from Thailand with a top prize, but to no avail - A.Ediyev was again awarded with a silver medal. Umar Paskhayev, from the Chechen town of Shali, in a bid to make it into the finals of the World Kickboxing Championship in Belgrade, won three fights, but lost in the fourth one - something that brought him only bronze. The Russian city of Novorossiysk played host to the Russian Federation Junior Taekwondo Cup (An International Taekwondo Federation version)-an event that came amid celebrations of the Day of the City and was attended by more than 13 taekwondo teams from all across Russia. The Chechen full-fledged junior team was represented in all the weight categories and won a total of 9 medals, said Musa Yasayev, President of the Chechen Taekwondo Federation.
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Chechen economics

Automatic telephone station is installed in the village of Gekhi

Electrosvyaz Communications Company in Urus-Martan district has installed an advanced automatic telephone station in the village of Gekhi. However, the villagers are not in a hurry to install telephones at their houses. Only few telephones out of over one hundred applications have been installed. The villagers give preference to cellular communications to stationary telephones. According head of the Electrosvyaz Company in Urus-Martan, Kharon Taramov, the residents of Gekhi and other villages in the district got an opportunity to install telephones at their houses owing to the realization of the special federal programme. The price of the automatic telephone stations is estimated at over 3 million rubles. Kharon Taramov said: Originally the telephone station installed in the village of Gekhi, the largest settlement in the district with 16 thousand residents hoped to install 112 telephones. But it was a surprise that only four people expressed desire to install telephones at their homes. Currently, the station works around the clock. Kharon Taramov said that he had sent a group of employees headed by the deputy director of the company to study the situation in the village of Gekhi. The group met with the residents who had submitted applications but failed to convince them to install telephones at their houses. The residents said that when they submitted application there had been no mobile telephone system in the district. Now, they have mobile telephones and they have no need for installing stationary telephones. (more...)

Issue 500
24.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

24 October 2007 Chechnyas health facilities receive new medical equipment under the national health programme
A number of health facilities in Chechnya has received advanced medical equipment under the national health programme. This was stated by deputy Health Minister and head of the working group in charge of the realization of the programme, Zukhra Kharkimova. Zukhra Kharkimova says the programme of the national project has been successfully realized except the neonatal screening area. The republic has received necessary tests and medical equipment for neonatal screening. A facility has been organized at the Mother and Child Healthcare Centre to this end but the specialists have failed to start work owing to some problems. The programme of neonatal screening will be realized as soon as the problems are solved, said Zukhra Kharkimova. Notably, Chechnya receives all equipment stated in the national programme timely, said Deputy Health Minister. Chechen health facilities received 24 units of medical equipment in August alone. Among these are endoscopes, laboratory equipment, ultrasonic equipment, mobile fluorography and ECG, mammography and mobile laboratories. According to Zukhra Kharkimova, the equipment and appliances were distributed by taking into account the presence of accommodation and specialist at a health facility and readiness of the medical personnel to use advanced equipment when they were launched. A decision on how to distribute equipment and appliances was taken even before they were supplied to Chechnya. To this end, orders from chief physicians, presence of specialists and training of personnel to work with new equipment were taken into account. Last year preference was given to hospitals but this year priority was given to polyclinics and dispensaries at large settlements. Gudermes and Vedeno districts received a large part of medical equipment and appliances, said Zukhra Kharkimova. The supply of medical equipment to Chechnya under the national programme will be continued in October.
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24 October 2007  Alibek Adjiyev: Friendship With Chechnya Is Our Lifes Law Alibek Adjiyev, Chairman of the Dagestan-Chechnya Friendship and Cooperation Society, has been linked to Chechnya since his childhood. He was born in a near-border village located in the Khasavyurt district that separated from the Chechen village of Gerzel-aul by the Aksaika River. When a child, A.Adjiyev spent all his spare time with his Chechen friends. Later on, when he became a chairman of a local collective farm and a secretary of a district Party committee, A.Adjiyev continued to keep company with residents of Chechnyas cross-border districts. Back then, Dagestans and Chechnyas labor collective farms had close and successful cooperation. Being a Professor of the Dagestan Agriculture Academy, A.Adjiyev took part in training hundreds of specialists for Chechnya. Ties between the two republics cross-border districts assumed new dimensions during the war in Chechnya, when gunmen infiltrated into Dagestan via the Chechen territory. But we firmly believed that it was not the Chechen peoples fault. This is why after a Society for Friendship and Cooperation with Dagestan was formed in Chechnya, we immediately decided to set up a similar one in Dagestan, A. Adjiyev explains. Despite enemy peace-disrupting efforts, both organizations did their utmost to preserve historic friendship between the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya. The Societies activists paid daily visits to the cross-border villages, received guests from administrative border areas, held joint concerts, tournaments and meetings with elders and spirituals leaders. Peoples wisdom prevailed both in Dagestan and Chechnya. We managed to preserve and boost our friendship during wartime ordeal. And now, we are proudly willing the amity over our children, A.Adjiyev says. The Dagestan-Chechnya Friendship and Cooperation Society is now known as one of the most influential public organizations in Dagestan. Its activists significantly contribute to developing fraternal ties between the two republics and promoting Chechnyas socio-economic development. Many members of the Society take an active part in reconstruction works in Chechnya, whose agricultural sector is also under the supervision of Dagestani activists. They implement a raft of projects to grow vineyards and orchards as well as to keep up the fertility on the Chechen soil. The Society also adds substantially to the development of near-border bonds between the two republics. Thus, the Society helped to organize a scientific conference on strengthening bilateral relations between Chechnya and Dagestan with the Chechen side taking an active part in the event, which was held in the Dagestan capital of Makhachkala. As for A. Adjiyev, he participated in a recent conference on inter-ethnic and inter-confessional unity in Grozny. Professor Adjiyev hopes that the opening of the Grebensky Bridge will give a fresh impetus to expanding ties between the two republics cross-border districts. He also dwells on plans to organize new meetings of Chechen and Dagestan scientists, public figures and masters of culture in the towns of Kizlyar, Shelkovskaya, Khasavyurt and Nozhai-Yurt. According to A. Adjiyev, Dagestan now lends wide economic and educational support to Chechnya, whose students study at Chechen higher educational institutions on preferential basis. More and more Chechen specialists defend their theses for Candidates and Doctors degree in Dagestan. And I am sure that our Society will expand its wide-scale activities in the near future, A. Adjiyev points out. The Professor recollects the late 1980s,when he was greatly impressed by the beauty of the then prosperous Chechnya, especially its capital Grozny. Lamentably, irrespective of our peoples will, peaceful life was interrupted by the war and our joint paramount task now is to help Chechnya restore its former status. The Dagestan-Chechnya Friendship and Cooperation Society have done and will do its best to bring peace and stability to the North Caucasus, whose people should live in friendship with other constituent subjects of the Russian Federation, A. Adjiyev underlines.
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23 October 2007  Two militants killed in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district
Two members of illegal armed units have been eliminated in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district by Russian defense and interior officers, law enforcement sources told Interfax-AVN. "Clashes with a group of about ten people occurred near the village of Tangi during special operations. Two militants were killed. They are being identified," an official said. None of the officers was injured. A militant base was found in the mountains near the village of Makhketa, Vedeno district, during search operations, the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax-AVN.
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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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