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Ethnic chechens beyond the border of Chechnya: culture ahd life

Imran Israilov: Our Priority Task is to Deliver First-Hand Information On Chechnya

The Rostov region is now known to be a residential area of one of the biggest Chechen expat communities across Russia. Earlier in the month, a group of Chechen members of parliament traveled to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the administrative center of the Rostov Region and the entire Southern Federal District, in a bid to exchange experience with their Rostov colleagues and study regional legislation. This visit was initiated by the Rostov-based regional representation office of the Chechen President, which currently grapples with raising funds to equip a new school at the Kurchaloyevsk districts remote village-a charity action that is being implemented jointly with Rosbaltyug information agency. As many as 160 pupils now go to the school, which was built thanks to donations from local individuals and legal entities. Following the talks with the Administration Head of the Kurchaloyevsk district, the Rostov representation office of the Chechen President made a decision to allot money for the school -a process that is slated to be completed before the end of this year. Earlier, another the office-initiated significant event took place in the Black Sea resort of Lazarevskoye, which played host to The Days of Chechen Journalism festival amid celebrations of the November 4 National Unity Day in Russia. The event made it possible for the Russian and foreign audience to get a better knowledge of positive changes now underway in Chechnya. Demonstrations of the best 6 documentary films shot by Chechen moviemakers from the Vainakh and The Grozny state TV companies took place at a local cultural center with representatives of the regional Chechen ex-pat communities attending the occasion.
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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
25.12.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

25 December 2007 Court sanctions arrest of Russian train blast suspect
A court has sanctioned the arrest of a suspect recently detained in south Russia over an August train blast in which 60 people were injured, a court spokesman said. Salanbek Dzakhiyev, 40, a resident of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, was detained in the town of Nazran on Tuesday. Two more suspects in the case, Amirkhan Khidreyev and Maksharip Khidreyev, were also detained in the city on the same day. The Nevsky Express hurtled off the rails near Veliky Novgorod on August 13 on the country's busiest rail line, linking Moscow and St. Petersburg, following an explosion that left a crater in the tracks. Carriages were overturned and dozens of people were injured. The blast occurred as the train was approaching a railway bridge over a road, but the train, traveling at around 190 kilometers per hour (118 mph), had sufficient momentum to make it over the bridge before running into the embankment, avoiding potentially massive fatalities. RIA Novosti
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24 December 2007  Bomb force in prevented terrorist act equivalent to 1 kg of TNT The force of the explosive device found in a car parked near a school in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Russias southern republic of Ingushetia, was equivalent to about one kilogram of TNT, sources from republican law enforcement agencies told Tass on Monday. It consisted of about ten kilograms of a mixture of aluminium powder, ammonium nitrate and the detonator. All the ingredients were in a plastic bucket. The suspicious vehicle, VAZ-21010, was detected at about 10 pm, on Sunday, Moscow time. It had the marker lights on, and there was no driver inside. A powerful explosive device was found there. The bomb was defused. Police search for masterminds of the terrorist act.
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23 December 2007  Putin urges secret services to raise barriers to terrorism
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the secret services to put a safe barrier to international terrorism, drug trafficking and contraband. He said he expected the secret services to prevent destabilization of the situation in the country by international terrorists. Addressing officers of security agencies on the day of their professional holiday, Putin said a lot of sizable blows have been delivered on international terrorism over the past few years. The FSB border service must make new major steps to raise the level of protection of Russian borders, first of all at the most important North Caucasian section, he stressed. Putin said work must be boosted to equip the state border with state-of-the-at technical means. He also thanked the border guards for their work, stressing, however, that a lot is still to be done. The number of terrorist attacks in Russia this year reduced by 60 percent, the chief of the federal security service FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, told the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, of which he is chairman, earlier. The level of the terrorist threat has been reduced considerably in contrast with the previous year. The number of committed terrorist attacks was down by 60 percent, from 112 in 2006 to 40 in 2007, Patrushev said. In all, the number of terrorism-related offences registered in Russia in January-November was down by 44 percent as compared with the same period last year. The security services succeeded in preventing over 70 terrorist acts in the North Caucasus in 2007, also terrorist acts with the use of suicide bombers, Nikolai Patrushev told chief editors of the leading Russian media on Wednesday. With the threat of terrorism heightening in the world, it has been possible to decrease the level of terrorism in Russia considerably in 2007, he said. Thus, 257 terrorist acts were registered in 2005, 112 in 2006, and 41 in 2007, Patrushev noted. Some 150 militants voluntarily abandoned their illegal activities this year.
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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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