"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station

You can listen to Free Chechnya Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM Moscow time on a frequency of 594 kHz on the medium wave band and on a frequency of 171 kHz on the long wave band. The programme is created with the involvement of the Ministry for culture and mass communication of the Russian Federation.
(live broadcasting......)

Chechen culture | Modern Chechen literature

Fifth Novel by Kanta Ibragimov

A group of journalists of the Chechen department were happy to get a new novel by Kanta Ibragimov in the middle of January. The author presented us first copies released from the print. Presenting the book Kanta Ibragimov noted that book had been an excellent present for himself. It has become tradition to print a novel each two years since 1999. The rest were released in 2001, 2003 and 2005. The author worried that he could not end and print the fifth book, The Fairy Tale of East in 2007. Fortunately, he could do the job. The date of print is in the out gone year. However, he spent eight years to write the book. He studied over one hundred primary sources since the book is a historical novel and all facts and dates are taken from documents. To this end he had to visit many Russian cities, work in their museums, libraries and archives and consult with historians. Kanta Ibragimov compares the new book with his History Teacher. Both are historical novels. History Teacher is a fiction, while the The Fairy Tale has lots of facts. Invasion of the Caucasus by Tamerlane in the 14th century, the Battle with Tokhtamysh and Hodja Nasreddin are everlasting topic of the struggle between kindness and evil.
(more ......)

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 510
11.02.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

11 February 2008 Russian Air Force to have new test site in North Caucasus
Russia will build a new Air Force training ground in the North Caucasus, set to be the country's largest, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. The site will be built near the Black Sea port of Taganrog for the North Caucasus Air Force and Air Defense Army. The facility will have state-of-the-art equipment to provide combat support to all types of aviation and antiaircraft systems, and will also be used to train Emergency Situations and Interior Ministry air forces. A Russian Air Force spokesman contacted by RIA Novosti declined to specify when the site will be opened.
(more News from Chechnya...)

11 February 2008  New passport and visa service functions in Sunzhen district A new passport and visa service was opened in the village of Sernovodsk in Sunzhen district almost a month ago, on the 6th of January. It was formed on the basis of an order by the Department of Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation in Chechnya. The move was made in response to a request by the residents of the village. The office issues passports and its staff cooperates with the migration service. Head of the passport and visa service, Kazbek Shakhbulatov says that the office registers foreigners and does paper works for granting them Russian citizenship. Currently, the work is not so much since the population of the district is not so big. The staff consists of 3 persons and they are in a room of the districts police station. This is quire comfortable since the police have all important documents and the staff is working under safe conditions, said Kazbek Shakhbulatov. The office is open from 9 am to 4-4.30 pm in working days and up to 2 pm on Saturdays.
(more News from Chechnya...)

10 February 2008  Let the path be comfortable for queen!
One can hear this farewell wish quite often at the chess school headed by Sultan Timaev in Nadterechnaya. District chess players have stared to perform at the competitions more successfully and hold their own matches actively. There were two such incidents this year. The first one was Saipudi Zakaev competition. Saipudi Zakaev was the former head of the executive committee of the rural council. His family established a fund, which is headed by the head of the districts education department Aishat Zakaeva and organizes chess competitions. This years competition was the fifth. 18 masters, including players from other districts took part in the competition. The second one was for children. In line with the plan of the sports school for children and youth, competition among pupils teams was held involving 15 teams, two boys and a girl from each school. The team from the secondary school No. 1 in Znamenskaya won the competition. High School No. 10 in Znamenskaya and secondary school No. 3 in Nadterechnaya won the second place while the secondary school No. 2 in Goragorskaoi the third place. The district team was formed by including these winners and will take part in the republican competition of pupils. The districts elder chess players performed well at the republican competition. Musa Uspaev, trainer of the sports school won the third place and three players confirmed their third rank. The chess school plans to hold a competition for employees of the districts interior ministry and power structures. These employees requested to organize a competition devoted to the Fatherland Defenders Day. There are many chess players among them. Sultan Timaev says: Unfortunately, the level of district chess players is far from the republican. But the school pins hopes on Shamkhan, a pupil from the secondary school of Bratskoi. The pupil is a first rank player, districts champion and winner of the Akhmat Kadyrov memorial competition. He might perform well at the Southern Russian Federal District championship. Sultan Timaev says: There are talented children in lower grades. A sixth grade pupil from a school in Gvardeiskaya participated in an elders tournament of first rank players and won the 6th place. A second grade pupil from school in Nadterechnaya Ibragim Akhmedov is also a talented player. In these circumstances the district sports school has good potential. And I hope that the path of the queen of each player will be comfortable.
(more News from Chechnya...)

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.
(more ...)

Copyright © CHECHNYA FREE.RU