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30 January 2008 Stolitsa PlusGets an Award
The Grozny based Stolitsa Plus(Capital Plus) newspaper has recently been awarded the medal of honor of the Golden Fund of the Russian Press for 2007.
It is a high award in journalism. This time only 323 of more than 15 thousands officially registered publications in Russia got the award. State authorities, literary elite, public organizations and the business community highly value the award.
Under the name Stolitsa Plus the newspaper is five years old, though previously it has been previously published as Vesti Grozny (News from Grozny). The paper has 15 dedicated and closely knit staff-members determined always to offer their readers high quality materials informing, educating and entertaining them.
It is significant that though the paper is the city based, it is circulated throughout the whole republic and has permanent subscribers in all the regions in Chechnya. Editor in Chief, Marina Abubakarova hopes that in the not too distant future Stolitsa Plus will be on the breakfast table of readers in other regions of Russia informing them about whats going on in Grozny. It is pleasant to look around you each day,- M. Abubakarova says. -Traces of the fighting have almost all disappeared. Grozny has been
rising from the ashes, becoming more and more beautiful. I am sure that information about this will make happy every countryman, she adds.
Stolitsa Plus has twice in 2006 and 2007 - been featured prominently at the Chechen section at the Moscow exhibition devoted to the Press, attracting huge interest of co-exhibitors and visitors alike. Many people came round to get acquainted with us -, recalls Mariona Abubakarova. - They read avidly our copy and awarded high marks to its content and layout. We felt the support of our colleagues and readers all over Russia; we established good contacts with editors of a number of city papers like ours,-
revealed M. Abubakarova.
She believes that the honour medal award will stimulate higher creative skill among employees of Stolitsa plus, leading to an increase in the present circulation of 3 thousand copies and culminating in the paper venturing out of Chechnya.
Stolitsa Plus and other winners will receive their awards on February 12 in Moscow. Another Chechen paper, Molodaya Smena(Younger Generation) will also be decorated.
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29 January 2008 2007 was Enrichment Year for Medical Service
This is the opinion of Akhmed Yushayev, chief medical officer of the Grozny rural region, and he has reasons for believing so.
In 2007, the regional medical institutions got a large number of diagnostic apparatuses, different equipment and ambulances. Staff members were vigorously trained to use the equipment. Five regional doctors have undergone special training on laboratory diagnosing, handling of ultra sonic examination and endoscope machines and three others will shortly complete their training. Soon the Central hospital will get a new three-storey building with a basement. Also, both a new kitchen and a dinning hall have also
been erected.
The next step is to establish an in-patient hospital since the Grozny rural hospital remains the only one in Chechnya without such facility. There is already an appropriate building waiting to be properly equipped. According to A.Yushayev, staffing will not present a difficult problem because there are specialists from other regions of Russia, who are willing to go to the Nadterechny region to live and work. They are eager join local medics.
However, tuberculosis is of great concern to A. Yushayev. There is an acute shortage of specialists in this area in the region and in addition, salary of the few available ones leaves much to be desired. In Ingushetia and some other Russian regions, doctors treating tuberculosis patients get regular salary increments; tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease and people having close contacts with patients, including doctors, are exposed to it. The issue is getting due attention of the Chechen government and
the parliament and Akhmed Yushayev hopes the issue will be positively resolved this year.
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28 January 2008 Police officer killed in skirmish in Chechnya
A district police officer was killed in a clash with an illegal armed group in the mountains in southeastern Chechnya, the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax on Sunday.
A skirmish with an illegal armed group near the village of Gordali in the Nozhai-Yurt district on Saturday left police officer, Second Lt. Takhir Chalayev of the Baitarki village interior department, fatally wounded, the ministry said.
A search operation was launched to track down the militants, a ministry official said.
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Chechen history
Chechens one the worlds most ancient people
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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