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Chechen economics

Small business: basis of regional socio-economical development

This is what the head of the economic department of the Nozhai-Yurt administration, Adam Tekiyev, is certain about. And he has enough reasons for this. Currently, there are 75 small business enterprises in the region, 28 farms and almost 500 of businessmen without making a legal entity. Their work is aimed at the solution of the most pressing issues of social and economic development: the construction and restoration works, passenger and cargo transportation services, household maintenance and the distribution of food stuffs, industrial and building materials. The Kazbek company, headed by the Honored Builder of the Russian Federation Ilmadi Abuezidov, had long earned good reputation not only in the region but across the whole Chechen Republic. In the native Nozhai-Yurt district, the company reconstructed the House of Culture, built dozens of kilometers of roads, gas and water pipes. Last year they commissioned 6 new schools and 2 obstetrical points. Almost 70% of all the works in the district were carried out by the Kazbek company. Other companies- Bashlan and Zaurbek- also contributed much to the process of regional economic development. They built several bridges at Meskets and Lyom-Korts. Currently, some private companies are working to restore an asphalt plant and build a new brick factory.
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Chechen economics

Arguns Pishchemash is Successfully Developing

The Pishchemash (Food Engineering) factory based in the Chechen town of Argun currently deals with the production of shaped decking, water towers, grilles, gates and other articles. In 2007 in a bid to increase output, the factory and the Tolyatti auto plant clinched a deal, according to which the Russian-made Niva jeeps will be assembled at the Argun factory. The move is expected to propel the factory into a qualitatively new level and provide job-thirsty locals with additional vacancies. Thus, a delegation of as many as 70 Argun workers recently left for the Russian city of Samara to improve their professional skills. Inking an additional agreement with the Tolyatti plant this year made it possible for our workers to visit Samara, said Beslan Sadayev, deputy director of the Pishchemash factory. (more...)

Issue 514
14.03.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

14 March 2008 Russian Premier League kicks off 2008 season in Chechnya
The Russian Premier League begins on Friday with a match in a former war zone as Terek FC host Krilya Sovetov in the Chechen capital, Grozny. The return of top-level soccer to Chechnya after a gap of 14 years has been widely touted in Russia as a sign of the stabilization of the Chechen Republic after two wars in the 1990s and early 2000s. However, despite the relative calm, militants are still active in the region, most notably in neighboring Ingushetia. Terek Grozny FC were forced to disband in the mid-1990s due to escalating violence in the Chechen Republic. They later reformed and held their home matches in the town of Pyatigorsk in the North Caucasus. They played in the Premier League in 2005, but were relegated the same season.
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14 March 2008  Over 100 militants 'neutralized' in Chechnya in 2008 - official Law enforcement bodies have arrested or killed 103 militants in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya since the start of this year, a senior police official said on Thursday. "Police have neutralized 103 members of criminal armed groups in operations since the start of this year," Nikolai Simakov, also Chechnya's first deputy interior minister, said. "19 of them were killed after they resisted arrest, 78 were detained and 10 gave themselves up." Simakov said a gang led by Uvais Techiyev, involved in a series of attacks and murders of police officers in late 2007, and another group active in the mountainous Shatoi district had been eliminated. Simakov claimed the numbers of terrorist attacks in the republic declined by almost 72% last year. Moscow has significantly scaled down its military presence in Chechnya, since two devastating military campaigns, in 1994-1996 and 1999-2001. But random fighting and terrorist attacks still occur in the area, despite a widely publicized amnesty campaign announced by authorities. In a sign of Chechnya's recent relative stability, Russia's Football Union gave the go ahead for Terek FC, a premier league soccer club based in the Chechen capital, to play its home matches in Grozny. The team earlier played in the city of Pyatigorsk in neighboring Stavropol. On Friday, Grozny hosts a soccer match between Terek and Krylya Sovetov from the central Russian city of Samara. Itar-Tass
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14 March 2008  Six gunmen killed in Dagestan
Six gunmen from the Buinaksk gang were destroyed in a special operation underway since Friday morning between the villages of Manasaul and Agachkala in the Buinaksk region of Dagestan, the public relations service of the Federal Security Service department in Dagestan told Itar-Tass on Friday. Submachine guns and a great amount of cartridges were found on the destroyed bandits. Several gunmen clashed with Russian commandos in the forest near a small village of Gergenkala, where a dugout of gunmen was spotted. One serviceman of the Russian Interior Ministry Troops was killed and a serviceman of the republics crack police was injured. A criminal case was instituted over the killing of a serviceman and the injury of a policeman and the armed resistance from gunmen. The investigation into the case is underway. Itar-Tass
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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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