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Extending a helping hand to Chechnya | Russian regions to Chechnya

Round Table on Inter-ethnic Relations

From time immemorial, the Russian city of Yaroslavl has been rightly believed to be a territory of concord, where representatives of more than 100 nationalities, including the Chechen expatriates, peacefully coexisted. The past several years have witnessed successful activities by the Vainakh Association, headed by Nur-El Khasiyev, who is also a chairman of a regional branch of the Russian Peoples Assembly. When Nur-El Khasiyev was recently appointed the Chechen Presidents envoy to the Yaroslavl Region, he immediately moved to initiate the round- table on interethnic relations discussion that attracted attention by many scientists, lawyers, experts and ombudsmen from around Russia. Fighting xenophobia and boosting tolerance topped the agenda of the seminar even though these issues are currently of not paramount importance to the Yaroslavl Region. Admitting, though, that the Region has occasionally seen facts of xenophobia, Nur-El Khasiyev urges for merciless fight against this shameful public phenomenon. In this sense, he says, there are two main directions to resolve the problem. Firstly, we should harshly condemn xenophobia and interethnic discord, taking a raft of relevant measures to end these evils. And secondly, we must boost tolerance and interethnic cultural ties in the society. It is worth noting that it was the Yaroslavl Region that significantly added to tackling these outstanding issues by organizing various exhibitions, seminars, film festivals and holding the Yaroslavl festival celebrations, Nur-El Khasiyev concludes. In the wake of his recent visit to Yaroslavl, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov decreed to allocate considerable funds for restoring an ancient city mosque.
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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 520
07.04.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

07 April 2008 Explosive device goes off in municipal district of Nasyr-Kortovsky of Nazran, no victims
An explosive device went off in the municipal district of Nasyr-Kortovsky of the city of Nazran at about 07.00 on Monday. Nobody was hurt in the explosion. As the law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia reported, the explosive device equivalent up to 0.5 kilogram of TNT was planted near the bridge across the river Nazranka. A hole with a diameter of 0.5 metre and depth of 30 centimetres appeared at the site of the explosion. An investigation team is working at the site of the incident.
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07 April 2008  Criminal case opened over attack on police convoy in Ingushetia A criminal case has been opened over the Saturday attack on a police convoy in Ingushetia, assistant head of the Ingush division of the Russian Prosecutor Generals Office Investigation Committee Svetlana Gorbakova told Itar-Tass. The attack on police officers and the illegal weapon are the charges, she said. The convoy en route from the village of Nesterovskaya to the village of Berd-Yurt in the Sunzha district of Ingushetia, was attacked at about 9:00 p.m. Moscow time. The assailants used firearms and a grenade launcher. The convoy engaged officers of the Sunzha district police department, a combined unit of Rostov policemen and servicemen of a military unit stationed in Ingushetia. Two Rostov officers were injured and taken to hospital. The search for the assailants is in progress.
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07 April 2008  Grozny wins best CIS city contest in the nomination for the successful restoration of the city
The Chechen capital of Grozny won in the nomination for the successful restoration of the city during the first international contest The Best CIS City. The competition was held in 16 nominations, 54 cities won in the contest, the Chechen presidential and governmental press service told Itar-Tass on Sunday. All in all, 96 Russian cities and nine cities from other CIS states were taking part in the forum. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who is also the president of the International Assembly of Capitals and Cities, awarded a diploma in the nomination for the successful city restoration to his Grozny counterpart Muslim Khuchiyev. The major goal of this contest is to show the best solutions in the cities, which we cooperate with, and recommend other participants to make use of this experience, Luzhkov said. For his part, Grozny Mayor Khuchiyev spoke about effective and large-scale achievements in the building and restoration works that show comments given by Chechen guests surprised by the reconstruction progress. The International Assembly of Capitals and Cities and the Moscow government organized the competition in the Russian capital. Since 2006 Chechnya has fully restored Argun, Gudermes, Shali. In 2007 the Grozny mechanical plant, the cardboard factory Druzhba, a reinforced-concrete making plant, the integrated works Chechenavtotrans were reconstructed and put into operation. The anti-AIDS center, an addiction clinic and a childrens hospital work in Chechnya. Another 16 medical centers are under reconstruction.
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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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