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Religion | Islam Today

3000 Chechens Are to Go to Mecca

Deputy mufti of Chechnya, Magomed-khaji Dadayev says that a record number of the Chechens can go to Mecca this year to perform hajj. Thanks to the combined efforts by the republican mufti office and the President of Chechnya, the republic has been allocated 3000 places, compared with last years 1300. The decision has been influenced by present stability in Chechnya and substantial increase in earnings by the population. Now, many Chechens who hitherto couldnt afford the expenses to pilgrimage can do so. However, those for whom going to Mecca still remains a pipe dream have not been forgotten. Although, visiting holy places in Mecca is not compulsory for the less well off, the Chechen President has recently announced at a meeting with muftis that he will provide a plane to carry to Mecca 160 poor, old and respected Chechens.
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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 501
26.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

26 October 2007 Five years on from siege, Russia holds Nord-Ost memorial
A memorial ceremony to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 2002 Dubrovka theater siege in which 130 hostages died has been held in Moscow. Relatives of the victims attached photos to the walls of the theater, and brought flowers and candles to a memorial in front of the building. "Five years have passed since the tragedy, but for us time stopped on October 26, 2002," a mother of one of the victims said. After a minute of silence, a total of 130 white balloons, one for each victim of the siege, were released into the sky. Aside from a range of high-ranking Moscow officials, the ceremony was attended by family members of victims of other terrorist attacks, including the 1999 Moscow and Volgodonsk apartment bombings, 9/11, the Beslan school siege, and others. On October 23, 2002, about 40 terrorists took hostage an audience of over 912 people at a Dubrovka theatre performance of the musical Nord-Ost. The terrorists demanded the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. After three days of appeals and negotiations, Russian security forces used an undisclosed gas to disable terrorists before they could carry out their threat to blow up the hall. The Russian authorities say 39 terrorists were killed in the raid, and 130 hostages died of effects of the gas. There is some dispute amongst survivors of the siege as to the exact number of terrorists involved. President Putin praised the operation to free the hostages, also asking forgiveness from the nation for being unable to save more. RIA Novosti
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26 October 2007  Program worked out in Chechnya for return of specialists Chechen authorities are faced with the issue of return of skilled specialists, first of all Russian-speaking people, to the republic, as its social and political situation has stabilised and its economy is developing. The problem of the shortage of specialists is acute, especially in the public health and education areas -- there is a shortage of 2,055 physicians and 450 teachers, department head Vadud Gerikhanov at the Ministry of National Policy, Press and Information told Itar-Tass on Friday. On Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov's initiative, the ministry has worked out a draft programme for return of the Russian and Russian-speaking population that lived in the republic before. The programme is planned for the 2008-2010 period. At the first stage, well-equipped housing will be provided for returning specialists. It is planned to allocate over three billion roubles for the purposes. Stage-by-stage implementation of the programme will allow to improve education and health care, restore the polyethnic system, ease social tension, harmonize interethnic relations and improve the personnel structure in the republic, the official believes. The republic cannot implement the programme without federal support. So, 75 percent of the financing is expected to be provided from the federal budget and 15 percent from the republic's budget, Gerikhanov said. Itar-Tass
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26 October 2007  Militant killed in sweep in Dagestan's Khasavyurt district
A militant has been reportedly killed in a sweep operation outside the village of Adil-Otar. "First reports suggest one of the militants has been killed. The special operation is continuing. The militants' identities have been established, but their names are being withheld for the moment," Mark Tolchinsky, the deputy head of the Dagestani Interior Ministry's press service, told 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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