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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 521
11.04.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

11 April 2008 Almost 200 militants killed in North Caucasus in 2007
A total of 192 militants and armed gang members were killed and more than 700 arrested in anti-terrorist operations in Russia's North Caucasus last year, a deputy interior minister said on Thursday. A total of 17 armed criminal groups were eliminated and 28 leaders killed in the region during the year, Arkady Yedelev said. According to police reports from March, some 103 militants have been arrested or killed in Chechnya since the start of this year. Yedelev also said that the number of terrorist attacks had significantly reduced over the past year: "Last year 11 terrorist attacks were registered against 39 in 2006." The high-ranking official added that abductions in the republic had significantly reduced over the past two years, signaling a breakthrough in the situation surrounding kidnappings. "Eighteen criminal cases were launched for the abduction of 21 people in 2007, while in 2002 845 people were abducted in Chechnya with 611 cases opened," Yedelev said. Although the active phase of the North Caucasus anti-terrorist campaign officially ended in 2001, periodic bombings and clashes between gunmen and federal troops still disrupt Chechnya and nearby regions, including Daghestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino- Balkaria, and Karachayevo-Circassia. RIA Novosti
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10 April 2008  Policeman injured in Ingushetia in severe condition Doctors estimate that a policeman injured in Ingushetia is in severe condition. He is undergoing an operation, a source in the republican clinical hospital told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. An officer of the Ingush department for the fight with organized crime, Salman Chakhtiyev, 39, was injured at about 8 a.m. Moscow time at 10, Bazorkin Street, in the blast of a self-made explosive device that went off when he got in his jeep Niva. The preliminary reports said the bomb was planted under the bottom of the car and was blasted by a remote control detonator. Chakhtiyev received numerous injuries and was hospitalized. The preliminary reports said the bombs yield was about 500 grams of TNT, a source in the republican Interior Ministry said. The bomb was stuffed with striking pieces. The investigators are probing into several versions of the crime. The main version is connected with Chakhtiyevs occupational activities. The criminal case was instituted under three articles of the Criminal Code for an attempt on life of a law enforcer, the illegal storage and carrying of weapons and ammunition and the premeditated damage of property, the republican investigation department of the Investigation Commission under the Prosecutor Generals Office said. Itar-Tass
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09 April 2008  Nurgaliyev urges Dagestan police to act pre-emptively
Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev at an operational meeting that focused on the work of the interior bodies of the Dagestan republic in 2008 demanded from the Dagestan Interior Ministry leadership to work pre-emptively counteracting the existing threats. I would like to know what changes have taken place in the crime situation in the republic and what measures are being taken to act in a pre-emptive manner, react to the existing threats both from terrorist and extremist organisations, as well as against general crimes, Nurgaliyev said. 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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