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

Vainakh Ensemble Participates in Arts Festival in Yaroslavl

Yaroslavlskye Gulyanya or Outdoor Merrymaking is a traditional arts festival in Yaroslavl in Central Russia. The programme of the latest one that has just been held in the city of the Volga River included roundtable conferences, exhibitions and concerts. A seminar devoted to inter-ethnic relations focused on issues linked with cultural cooperation and role of cultures in harmonizing inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relation. Among its participants were press reporters, aides to the governor and deputies of the State Duma of the Yaroslavl region. A seminar Inter-ethnic dialogue as a path towards harmony in the society was held. The head of the Vainakh society in Yaroslavl, Nur-el Khasiev considers culture is the key to peace. He also heads the Yaroslavl branch of the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia and has recently been appointed as the Chechen Presidents envoy to the region. Both the Chechen Republic and the Yaroslavl region concluded an agreement on cooperation. A representative delegation headed by President Ramzan Kadyrov paid a short visit to the Yaroslavl region. President Kadyrov signed the document on behalf of Chechnya. Success of the region impressed the delegation that included specialists from various areas. The visit and the agreement pave the way for promoting cooperation between the two Russian entities, which have ample opportunities when taking into account the demands for the revival of the Chechen economy and huge potential of the Yaroslavl region.
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Sports | Sport today

Wrestling Carpet Goes to Grozny Presidential Lyceum

Adnan Temishev, deputy of the Peoples Assembly of the Chechen Parliament, vice-president of Chechnyas Greco-Roman wrestling federation presented the Presidential Lyceum in Grozny with a wrestling carpet in a move that is fully in line with a philanthropy mission the Federation has been fulfilling in the past few years. Headmaster Vera Umalatova thanked A.Temishev for his incessant care for the pupils devotion to sports and his broad efforts to give the children access to a healthy way of life. An inter-regional Greco-Roman wrestling tournament took place in the Cossack village of Kurskaya with more than 150 young wrestlers from the neighboring towns, territories and regions of the southern Russia taking part in the event. The home teams immediate neighbors-wrestlers from the Naursky region did fairly well in the tournament by winning 4 gold and 4 bronze medals. The 6th inter-national unarmed self-defense, or sambo tournament named after General Aslambek Aslakhanov, a world-class Master of Sports, was held in Moscow. The municipal Wrestling palace called after Ivan Yarygin, a legendary two-time Olympic heavyweight champion in the free style wrestling, hosted the event, which was attended by 5 Chechen wrestlers from the Alkhankalinsk sambo school. (more...)

Issue 502
29.10.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

29 October 2007 One militant arrested, another turns himself in to police in Chechnya
An active member of a criminal armed group has been arrested in a search operation in Chechnya, the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax on Sunday. "A militant was arrested after his identity was established in a search operation in the town of Komsomolskoye in Groznensky district. He is known to have fought during the first military campaign as a member of various criminal armed groups," the ministry said. Another militant active in the first military campaign turned himself in to police. "He claimed he had not possessed weapons and only provided assistance to militants," an Interior Ministry official said. This information is being checked, he said.
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26 October 2007  Our Club Attracts People Sobecednik or Collocutor literature club led by deputy head of Naur administrations education department Zoya Ibakova has become a real centre of culture in the district since it was founded three years ago. Zoya Ibakova says: The task of the club is to fill in the blanks of spiritual life of those who are thirsty of culture and arts. Currently, people are being driven in by the rhythm of life but they are in need of spiritual nourishment more than ever. They need music, aesthetically satisfying words and communications on this basis. This is the reason our club is attracted by people. The club is engaged in various activities. Among these are monthly meetings, dramatized concerts, literature evenings devoted to memorial and significant dates and jubilees of the representatives of Chechen and Russian culture. The consistent theatre and arts stage of the club is district library headed by Marina Lobazanova, one of the most active participants of the clubs activity. Among other dozens of activists are Abaz Murtazov, poets Ruslan Akhmadov and Musa Selmukhanov and a participant of the All-Russian Teachers Assembly in St. Petersburg, Zagran Kerimov. Every event in the club brings people closer and promotes cultural life in the district. Among the plans in the near future is a gathering devoted to the singer Muslim Magomaev who had close links with Chechnya for many years. The club plans to mark the anniversaries of the famous poets, Rozhdectvensky, Gamzatov, Mezhelaitis who had done a lot to bring people who love culture and arts closer. The members of the club are going to visit the Lev Tolstoy museum. Zoya Ibakova plans to visit the Arbi Mamakaev museum with the prize winners of the districts amateur arts competition and meet with his son, chairman of the republican writers union, Eduard Mamakaev. The club plans to organize a series of meetings with teachers of artistic culture and Vainakh ethics the bearers of spiritual values of Chechen people. It will continue work to reveal local talents. In fact, the district has many talented people. Among these is young poetess Medeya Vakhabov whose work deserves republican recognition. Zoya Ibakova believes the number of activists grow after each event not only in the city, but in the region as well.
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28 October 2007  Samashkinsky state farm sows winter crops
The farmers of the Samashkinsky state farm in Achkhoi-Martan district is engaged in sowing winter crops. This year the task is proved to be quite difficult. This past summer was dry. If the soil was wet the seeds would have been grown better. In these circumstances, the farmers try their best to over come difficulties. Farmers have ploughed 850 hectares out of planned 900 hectares for winter crops. Winter barley has been sown in 200 hectares . Farmers start to sow wheat shortly. Five tractors are being used to plough the fields. According to the director of the state farm Gushi Sharipkhadzhiev, there are sufficient agricultural machines and oil and grease are subsidized. But the farm experiences a shortage of spare parts. It hopes the Agriculture Ministry will help purchasing them. It has enough seeds, 80 tons of barley and 140 tons of wheat. The farmers are determined to end the sowing in time. The farmers are quite friendly. But many farmers are pensioners. Gushi Sharipkhadzhiev believes that young people will join the farm. Fighting had severely damaged the farm. The farm has no garage for machines. It has to use the warehouse for this purpose. The director hopes to solve the problem in the near future since the farm has been given a loan and a subsidy.
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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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