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Chechen economics

Every Village Is to Get Access to Internet

A few years back the main concern of employees of the telephone communication service of Chechnya was ensuring telephone link for at least the heads of the regional administrations, but today the case is different. In the Shelkovskoi region an automatic telephone communication center is in service in the regional center and a container type station has been opened in the Grebensk settlement. Telephones handsets are being installed everywhere and already about 200 have been installed in apartment buildings and about a hundred have been supplied to various organizations and companies. The village of Chervlenaya will soon have about a hundred sets as the issue of cable line service is receiving active consideration. Simultaneously, each populated area is to have a saxophone in accordance with the Presidential programme. Inhabitants can ring and receive calls at any time irrespective of whether the facility is in a shop, public institutions or private houses. Moreover, the programme envisages installation in all the villages and settlements facility for collective access to Internet, each of which should have two-seat accommodation. The installation of such facility is ushered in and teams of specialists visit each day villages and settlements to allocate numbers. Head of the Regional Telephone Exchange, Viktor Mogilin says that though mobile telephone communication is competing with long established fixed telephone system, the latter will have the upper hand in the long run, because stationary telephone is more and more taking on features of documentary type of communication. Enterprises, organizations and private individuals are installing fax facilities and as the Chechen economy grows the process will advance faster.
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Chechen culture | Modern Chechen literature

A book about a courageous person and talented composer

The Moscow publishing house Probel-2000 has issued a biographical album entitled The Scarred Keys to mark the 70th anniversary of the talented Chechen composer and a unique personality Adnan Shahbulatov. Due to a tragic accident, he was laid up for almost all his life. However, through his strong will and support of his caring wife Zeinap he managed to write a lot of beautiful masterpieces. The chief editor of the book is a brother of the composer, Lema Shahbulatov. He collected archive reproductions, memoirs of friends and collegues and quotes of Adnan himself. The book contains specially prepared for the edition publications by Minister of Culture of the Chechen Republic Dikalu Muzakaev and the composer and peoples artist of this country Shirvani Chalaev. Among composers friends who contributed to the edition there are Natalia Antonenko, who replaced Shahbulatov as a chairman of the Union of Composers of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the poet, writer and publicist Adiz Kusaev, the peoples author Said Chakhiev, the singers Liudmila Senchina and Josef Kobzon, composers closest friend, journalist and musical critic Adnan Yakhiev and many others. (more...)

Issue 503
15.01.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

15 January 2008 Gudermes: Good Results and Future Plans
The Gudermes region is proud of its achievements in 2007 and is optimistic for the year 2008. Speaking about changes in social aspects, first deputy head of the regional administration, Umar Shapiyev has first of all spoken about the reopening of the two schools in the village of Oishara after their major reconstruction. In Gudermes itself, pupils of school N. 7 have resumed their classes in a new excellent three-storey building in place of the cramped kindergarten premises, where learning was in three shifts due to lack of space. A new school has been built in 6 months for children in Benoe. Previously theyr had been forced to travel extra long distance to attend schools in other villages. All the new schools are equipped with modern tools for productive learning. Physical training for the children has not been forgotten; the sport halls in Gerzeli and in other areas have been given facelift. Twelve medical assistance and midwifery centers were built in 2007 in the region; repairs have been carried out in the central hospital and a new branch has been opened. In the 2008 to 2011 period, repairs and construction of new education and medical institutions will be continued and plans are also in hand to build new clubs and houses of culture. We plan to solve all the problems that had seemed beyond our power to tackle, Umar Shapiyev said with infectious confidence.
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14 January 2008  Serzhen-Yurt Enters New Year in High Spirits According to local chief administrator, Israil Berdukayev inhabitants in Serzhen-Yurt have reason to be in high spirits. Large- scale restoration work going on in the Shalinsk region reached Serzhen-Yurt in the second half of the last year. The main road in the village has been given asphalt and more than two kilometers of its side streets have also been asphalted and a two and half kilometers dam has gone up near the river that has been causing great concern to the villagers. Other goodies await all the Serzhen-Yurt residents. Three objects are to be constructed in 2008 as part of the Russian special programme. They include schools and a house of culture, presently located in a reorganized premise, and the building of a new out patient department that is currently accommodated in a building too tiny to qualify as a medical institution and in a village with 5 and half thousand inhabitants. The building is a rare architectural monument built in 1905. It housed a postal station during the reign of tsars, but was converted to a school in the Soviet era, occupying a few rooms. It is hard to find a building better suited for a museum of the past eras. Such a museum could bring huge financial benefit and popularity to the village located in a beautiful town suburb. In times past, it hosted several pioneer camps, where many of the villagers worked. Now, the republic spends hundreds of million of rubles per year to organize summer holidays for the kids in the neighboring regions in the North Caucasus. President Ramzan Kadyrov has promised to put an end to the abnormality in the new year and the residents in Serzhen-Yurt are hoping that pioneer camps and health resorts will soon be opened in their area and tourists from all corners of Russia and the world will come flocking to their region. It would help to solve the acute unemployment problem in the region. Undoubtedly, items in a museum of bygone times will captivate tourists.
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14 January 2008  Attack on police officials under investigation in Kabardino-Balkaria
A criminal investigation has been started in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria into the killing of high- ranking police officials. The killing is being investigated by Kabardino-Balkaria's Investigations Committee on charges of an attempt on the lives of law enforcement officials and illegal possession of firearms, Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor Genera's Office, told Interfax on Sunday. "A team of experts of the Southern Federal District's Investigations Committee, led by Boris Salmaksov, the head of the Main Investigation Department of the Southern Federal District's Investigation Committee, has been sent to the scene to help investigate," he said. Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry's Department for Combating Organized Crime Anatoly Kyarov and the department's senior operations officer Albert Rakhayev were killed in an armed attack in Nalchik on Saturday evening. Another operative officer sustained wounds and was hospitalized, according to Markin. The three police officers came under fire opened from a VAZ car at 10 p.m. on Saturday when they were in their Chevrolet-Niva vehicle in a courtyard near the headquarters of the republic's drug control department, he said unveiling details of the incident. "Two police officers were killed in a losing battle against the stronger assailants and died as heroes. One officer and three passers-by sustained wounds," Markin said. Investigators arrived at the scene immediately after the attack was reported, he said.
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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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