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Chechen economics

Rosselkhozbank opens a training centre in Chechnya

Contemporary economy could function effectively only when there is a well-adjusted banking system. To keep pace with time Chechen regional branch of the Rosselkhozbank or agricultural bank has opened a new training centre in Grozny . The centre is equipped by taking into account new methods of teaching for 22 allocations. The staff of the divisions, accountants, economists and cashiers has an opportunity to upgrade their professional skills with out leaving the republic. The lectures are read by the staff members of the head office. Bank employees have lost their theoretical and practical skills during the time of destabilization and war. They have no experience too. The training centre paves the way for creating a reserve of bank employees. It plans to train bank employees from the regional divisions of the bank in the Southern Federal District . Graduates from institutes will also follow the banking programme at the centre.
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Chechen economics

Graded approach to taxpayers in Chechnya

The states tax policy must boost the development of various companies by creating favorable conditions for all spheres of industry and by using graded approach to taxation. Russias President Vladimir Putin repeatedly expressed this thought while commenting on the ongoing tax reforms. A graded approach to taxpayers takes into consideration peoples actual ability to pay taxes. This principle is revealed in two tax laws, adopted by the Chechen parliament- a tax on the companies property and on transport. Under the Russian Tax Code, a maximum rate of a tax on property for corporate bodies is 2,2%. Since the money paid by taxpayer go straight into regional budgets, the concrete size of a tax rate is determined by the countrys legislative bodies. Before the republican law came into force in 2007, there was a common 1% tax rate for all organizations- both for prosperous oil- producing companies and for poor agricultural sector. (more...)

Issue 508
01.02.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

01 February 2008 Grozny Central Mosque Has New Imam
Head of the Press service of the Chechen Muslim Council of clergy, Sulban Khasimikov has said that 2008 began with an enlarged meeting between leaders of the Muslim Council, regional chief administrators and Ramzan Kadyrov to discuss spiritual and moral rebirth of Chechens. President Kadyrov was hopeful that the republican Muslim spiritual authority will redouble efforts in this direction. The Grozny mosque has taken due notices of the issue and republican spiritual leaders know that Friday prayers are not always properly done. The mosque is near the central market and the citys motor park As a result, mostly arriving and leaving believers fill the praying ground while the number of the local believers is not great. Perhaps this has led to lax discipline, something that is frowned upon in Islam, the more so, different interpretations of Islamic canons. The imam of the mosque wants to travel to the Middle East to update his religious education. Taking into account the above mentioned facts on January 11, former imam of the central mosque in Grozny was replaced by Magomed- haji Khitonayev, adviser to the Mufti of Chechnya, native of Argun, who recently returned home after an 8-year religious training in Syria. The new imam is young, energetic and a devout Muslim. The Chechen spiritual authority is confident that the new imam will not disappoint them and will restore the trust of the faithful Muslim believers.
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31 January 2008  Contract serviceman missing in Chechnya A contract serviceman is missing in Chechnya and the fear is that he has been abducted, a law enforcement source told Interfax on Thursday. The incident occurred near the community of Chishki in the Urus- Martan district, "when four servicemen from the Interior Forces' military commandant office stopped for a rest in a forest during a reconnaissance operation," the source said. "Following the abduction of one of the four servicemen, his Kalashnikov machine-gun and ammunition were found," the source said. Law enforcement agencies are intensively searching for the missing serviceman.
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31 January 2008  Chechnya to become Heaven on Earth
Such a brave thought came into the mind of Mufti Nurbi Yemizh of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Adygea and Krasnodar Region, who at the beginning of January visited Chechnya to meet the spiritual leaders of the North Caucasus and the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. The spiritual leaders came to the President to hand him an order of merit of the 1st degree, rewarding the former Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov posthumously. The order was instituted by the North Caucasus Muslim Coordination Center. On 28 December, 2007, Russias President Vladimir Putin was also rewarded for his contribution to the process of friendly co-existence between the Muslim and the Orthodox. Another reward came to the son of the Russian Hero, Akhmat Kadyrov, who was assassinated in Grozny in 2004 by a bomb blast during a World War II memorial victory parade. He had always wanted to preserve peace in the North Caucasus and revive Islamic traditions in Russia. Ramzan Kadyrov is always glad to meet the spiritual leaders. He himself suggested that we should meet more often to discuss the most pressing issues. Currently, the biggest mosque which is thought to accommodate 10 thousand of believers is being constructed in Grozny. At the opening ceremony we plan to reward Ramzan with the order, said Mufti Nurbi Yemizh. Mufti also added that during his recent visit to Chechnya, he could see how fast the republic was being restored after the war. The capital, Grozny, is becoming more and more attractive each day. Both the old and the young are doing their best to achieve peaceful and stable well-being. Other republic of the North Caucasus should follow the example of Chechnya- concluded Mufti Nurbi Yemizh.
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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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