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Chechen culture | Literature | Modern Chechen literature

If the sun is on the banner

The book headlined If the sun is on the banner by a prominent journalist Said-Magomed Bashirov will be published in May. The book narrates the history of the republic of Ingushetia. The genre is not fiction but a detailed analysis of the republics development. Ingushetia, being almost in a conflict zone, managed not only to avoid decline but to achieve certain progress in social and economic development. The author provides living examples and argumentation to refute all allegations concerning the involvement of Ingushetia into the conflict. Said-Magomed Bashirov shows us that the republic is a blessed region, a full subject of the Russian Federation. Quite soon it may become an example for other regions. Today Ingushetia is the most economically and socially developed region of the Russian south. The region demonstrates high birth rates and low mortality.
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Chechen economics

Exhibitions and Fairs to Add to Boosting Small Business in Chechnya

Employees with Chechnyas Trade and Industry Chamber jointly with their colleagues from the Government Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship have frequently stressed that exhibitions and fairs may add significantly to boosting small business in Chechnya. That is why they take an active part in all relevant regional and all-Russian events and are also keen to hold a variety of fairs and exhibitions in the republic of Chechnya. Thus, an exhibition of Chechen manufacturers and services was recently held in the capital Grozny the third such an event that has been organized in the past three years. The infrastructure-friendly business incubator with the Government Committee became a venue for the exhibition, which had a great success. More than fifty entrepreneurs from around Chechnya took part in the exhibition to showcase their production, including construction materials, timber products and food-stuffs. This time, - says Zarema Chinkhoyeva, spokeswoman for Chechnyas Trade and Industry Chamber, - entrepreneurs showed more zeal to take part in the exhibition as compared with that of last years, realizing that they are bound to benefit from the event. They saw for themselves that taking part in similar events may well pave the way for exchange of expertise, product promotion and conclusion of a raft of agreements on joint business activities and would-be supplies. (more...)

Issue 516
24.03.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

24 March 2008 Four people were injured on Monday in a bomb blast in Nazran
Four people were injured on Monday in a bomb blast in Nazran, a city in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a spokeswoman for the local Interior Ministry said. The bomb planted under a Mercedes car had a yield of around 1 kg of TNT equivalent. The spokeswoman told RIA Novosti that two of the injured are police officers. A police source said one of the officers is in a critical condition after losing both legs in the explosion.
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24 March 2008  Main version of TV director murder is his professional activity The main version of the murder in Makhachkala late on Friday of Director of the Dagestan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company Gaji Abashilov is his professional activity, the chief investigator at the regions Main Investigation Department, Shamil Yunusov, told Tass on Saturday. He said the investigation also works on other versions, including feelings of dislike in his professional activity. Colleagues of Abashilov cannot give possible motives behind the murder. They mark his decency and fidelity to principles in his activity as director and reporter. The Director of the Dagestan State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company was killed in Makhachkala at about 7:45 p.m. Moscow time on Friday near the Tashkent shopping mall. Abashilov and his driver were inside a Hyundai Sonata. The assailants opened submachine gunfire and escaped. Abashilov died instantly. His driver was taken to hospital. The car used by assailants was found abandoned several blocks away from the crime scene. A Kalashnikov submachine gun, from which Abashilov is believed to have been killed, was found in the vehicle. A federal task force will investigate the murder, a source at the Prosecutor Generals Office told Itar-Tass on Friday. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said he would personally supervise the investigation.
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24 March 2008  Militant shot dead in Chechnya after attacking troops
A militant who attacked troops in the capital of Chechnya in Russia's restive North Caucasus region has been shot dead, a local police source said on Monday. The gunman, a local resident, was killed late on Sunday in the Prigorodny district of Grozny after troops stopped him for a document check. "After being ordered to show his documents, the suspect pulled out a pistol and shot at troops. In the retaliation fire, the militant was killed. There were no casualties among the troops," the source said.
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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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