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Chechen economics

Russian AVTOVAZ to present five new 2107 models

The first car making company in Chechnya, located in the Shalinsky region, will commission a conveyor system to produce five VAZ-2107 models. The campaign is dedicated to the Victory Day, the Deputy Head of the regional Industrial and Energy Ministry Sultan Rakhmayev. The Pishemash enterprise in the Chechen city of Argun is being re-equipped for the production of VAZ cars. The works will be over soon. The first VAZ-2107 model will be presented on May 9,- Rakhmayev said. The Deputy Minister added that for the first time the factory is expected to produce 40 cars a day, but by the year 2011 the assembly room will be capable of producing up to 50,000 cars of different modifications.
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Chechen economics

A business development program has been launched in Chechnya

The Chamber of commerce and trade together with the Committee on small business and entrepreneurship have launched business and management courses in Chechnya's capital Grozny. About 50 people are expected to follow one-month training course. Most students work in service sector, catering, construction and farm product processing businesses. Zarema Chinkhoeva, a spokesman for the Chamber of commerce and trade, says that the courses are designed to let people gain valuable business qualifications for starting their own small businesses. She also says that the courses have a flexible schedule. (more...)

Issue 523
26.04.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

26 April 2008 Road works have started in the Vedensk region
The Chechen Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has launched a program to reconstruct road network in the Vedensk district that in the Soviet times was famous for its tourist bases and health resorts. The current program to lay 100 kilometers of asphaltic roads is part of a larger project to rebuild a total of 600 kilometers of mountain roads, about a half of which are unsurfaced. By the year 2011, the Ministry plans to cover with asphalt most of them. Mountain roads account for the fourth part of all roads in the republic. They are considered to be the most difficult objects. Steep slopes, sporadic landslides and torrential Hoods also increase the cost of maintaining the road system. Yet the importance of such roads could hardly be overestimated as they provide mountain villagers with a faster and more convenient way to reach local centers, to attend educational institutions and receive medical services.
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25 April 2008  Gunmen thrice open fire on Ingush police overnight Gunmen three times opened fire in one hour on police patrols in North Caucasus Ingushi capital of Nazran overnight and wounded two policemen and a passer-by. Police said the gunmen were driving in a car and first opened fire on police patrol wounding a 24-year old passer-by. Ten minutes later the same gunmen opened fire on a traffic police point and wounded a 38-year old policeman in the leg. In the third incident they opened fire on a police car and wounded an officer inside. Republican police are searching for the gunmen. Itar-Tass
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25 April 2008  Thomas Hammarberg: The human rights situation had changed for the better in the republic
Russian President Vladimir Putin received Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg at the Kremlin on Friday. The European ombudsman arrived in Russia on April 19 and visited several regions of the Southern Federal District, including Chechnya and Ingushetia. Putin had regular meetings with Hammarbergs predecessor Alvaro Gil-Robles. Putin met in Moscow in July 2006 with Hammarberg, who was elected to the post in October 2005. A year later Hammarberg got acquainted with Dmitry Medvedev, when the latter occupied the post of the first vice-premier. They had a separate meeting. On Friday Medvedev will receive again Hammarberg, but already in the capacity of the Russian president- elect. For two years of work at the post of the Council of Europes human rights commissioner Hammarberg visited Russia several times and went not only to Moscow, but also to regions. This time during his visit to the Southern Federal District Hammarberg was interested in the human rights situation, the activity of police and judicial bodies and the rights of vulnerable groups of people. He visited hospitals, social care centers for families and children, children homes and met with human rights activists. At the meeting with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov Hammarberg noted that the human rights situation had changed for the better in the republic. He acknowledged that Chechnyas restoration is real, but not declaratory. Hammarberg particularly pledged that the Council of Europe would assist the Chechen authorities to open a forensic laboratory for the exhumation and identification of people. According to Chechen human rights commissioner Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, this laboratory is needed, as over 3,000 people are buried in massive graves in Chechnya, including those, who are still reported abducted or missing. 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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