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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 504
17.01.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

17 January 2008 One gunman, one policeman killed in clash in Chechnya
A group of gunmen was spotted in the Vedeno region of Chechnya on Wednesday. As ITAR-TASS learnt at the republics law enforcement bodies, an armed clash with members of an illegal armed group occurred in a forest 1.5 kilometres to the east of the village of Benoi, an exchange of fire continued for one hour and a half, after that the gunmen managed to escape. As a result, one gunman, a 31-year-old resident of Dagestan, was destroyed. At the same time, one policeman was also killed and six got injuries. At present, an operation to spot and detain the rest of the gang is underway.
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17 January 2008  Chechens obtain business licenses Recently more Chechens appeal to the License Chamber of the republic of Chechnya to obtain business licenses. The head of the Chamber Zaira Aliyeva told us what business sphere was the most popular among the residents. Most often people are trying to start their own business in retail trading. Many of them sell alcohol and deal with the construction since the republic is being actively restored. They obtain licenses on trading clay, sand and gravel. To get registered at the countrys tax police department and deal with the excavation of natural resources, one has to obtain a license. Only after this the Land Cadastre Chamber will give permission. A businessman also should receive an official permission at the Chechen Health Services Department and from the ecological police, that his activity wont damage the environment. Zaira Aliyeva says that corporate bodies apply for licenses more often than individuals. It does not take much time to register the beginners. They are just required to have all necessary documents we have to examine to give them permission for starting up business- says Zaira. People should pay 6 thousand rubles to get registered at the License Chamber. They are also obliged to pay 5% out of the profit. Zaira says the License Chamber has recently received permission for developing diamond deposits. Yet no such deposits were found in Chechnya but everything may change with time.
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16 January 2008  Gas Workers Begin to Get Salary Regularly
2007 was a particularly good one for workers in the Chechen gas service because for the first time in several years they started receiving their monthly salary regularly. The fact certainly encourages them to work harder. Even when they toiled selflessly without remuneration, they were above reproach; they did all that was in their power to serve their regions. Head of Naurgas, Aslanbek Alkhanov is satisfied with the work of his workers in 2007; gas supply was normal and there were no major accidents and when minor ones occurred to create interruption in supply, restoring supply took one - two hours to effect as the accident brigade worked efficiently. All the inhabited areas in the Naursk region, except the Nikolayevskaya settlement, now enjoy gas supply; finance is delaying the connection of Nikolayevskaya to the gas pipeline. The change in leadership at the Chechen gas service in 2007 led to adequate and timely furnishing of Naursk with necessary equipment and lubricants. Compared with 2006, the Naursk region was better equipped in 2007. Welfare of the staff has also been improved significantly. From 2004 to 2006, wages were at best paid twice in a year, forcing many highly qualified employees to seek employment elsewhere in order to feed families. Now, wages are paid regularly and those workers who have seriously thought about leaving have had a rethink and some of those who had resigned are eager to come back. But Aslanbek Alkhanov sets his sight wider, recruiting fresh hands. Experienced old hands in Naurgas keep watchful eye on new comers for two to three years, the period needed to pass on secrets of the profession to young workers to turn them into a qualified specialist. The main task of Naurgas is to ensure uninterrupted gas supply to the population.
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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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