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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 517
28.03.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

28 March 2008 Three militants destroyed in special operation in Dagestan
Three militants were destroyed in a special operation by Dagestan's law-enforcement bodies in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni on Thursday, the public relations department of the regional branch of the Federal Security Service told Itar-Tass. Three armed militants were holed up in a three-room apartment of a 90-apartment house in Pushkin Street. In response to the authorities' proposal to surrender, the gunmen threw several grenades at law-enforcers and fired automatic weapons. A special task police officer received a tangential wound, a law-enforcement official said. Police identified the three militants as Dhzamamed and Chengiz Kurbanov, aged 37 and 33, who are local residents. and a resident of the town of Derbent, Artur Araskuliyev. They are suspected of involvement in the murder of two local police officers in Dagestanskiye Ogni on October 2, 2007, and other serious crimes. Police earlier said Chengiz Kurbanov, 33, is a former road police officer. The militants were blocked on Wednesday night. The special operation lasted more than 12 hours. A small fire that broke out in the blocked apartment was put out by a local firefighting unit. At present, special task force police and demolition experts are searching the apartment for possible explosives.
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28 March 2008  Chechnyas local resident voluntarily surrenders 20 kg of TNT A local resident of Chechnya has voluntarily surrendered 20 kilograms of TNT, head of the press service of the Chechen Interior Ministry Magomed Deniyev told ITAR-TASS. On Thursday, a 43-year-old unemployed resident of the regional centre Shelkovskaya applied to the police with a request to accept from him 20 kilograms of TNT for a remuneration, a police spokesman said. According to the man, he found the explosive in bushes near the motor road Shelkovskaya-Grebenskaya as far back as 1999. At present, this fact is being checked.
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26 March 2008  Case opened over fire at N Ossetia-Ingushetia border checkpoint
A criminal case was instituted over the fire at a police post on the North Ossetia-Ingushetia administrative border. The case was opened under the articles for an attempt on the life of a law enforcer and the illegal keeping of firearms, explosives and ammunition, a source in the law enforcement agencies of North Ossetia told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The search operation for the attackers is underway. The police post KPM-105 located on the eastern outskirts of Chermen in the Prigorodny region came under fire on Tuesday evening. Two North Ossetian policemen were injured. The group of investigators have a version that the criminals were seeking to destabilize the current situation in the border area, the source said. During the examination of the scene more than 20 cartridge shells from automatic arms were found, the source said. The police post KPM-105 is a post of federal importance. Additional security measures were taken along this part of the administrative border. Commandoes and local policemen are involved in the search operation for the criminals. Checkups of vehicles were tightened.
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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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