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12 May 2008 Small business and business activity develop in Chechnya
There is a growth in the number of businessmen in Chechnya. This was stated at the committee for promoting small business and
business activity in the Chechen republic. According to the deputy chairman of the committee, Avkhan Dzhamulaev, 300 businessmen
were registered in 2001, while this figure has currently exceeded 20 000. The committee says that originally the business
activity was basically limited to retail sale but now a large number of businessmen are engaged in production. Chechen President
Ramzan Kadyrov has more than once said that the activity of small business is capable of influencing favaourbly on investment
climate of the republic. The committee draws special attention to residents who present the committee business-plans linked with
production of goods. The committee has issued loans worth of 31.5 million rubles this year alone, out of which 18 million rubles
were given to support small business in the form of micro-credits. The committee won these credits by participating in the All-
Russian competition of businessmen and another 13.5 million rubles from the republican budget, said Avkhan Dzhamulaev. The
micro-credit is 300 thousand rubles. However, this sum is insufficient to buy any mini-production. In view of this, the
committee plans to call on the government to increase the micro credit up to 500 thousand rubles, said Dzhamulaev. Avkhan
Dzhamulaev said that last year the committee had spent about 100 million rubles to finance small business and business activity.
The republican budget gave 40 million rubles, while the rest was given by the Russian government. Moreover, 6.5 million rubles
were allocated for the small business oriented on export. According to the deputy chairman of the committee, many countries give
priority to promoting small business and 65% of the gross domestic product of these countries is guaranteed by small business.
In short, small business guarantees the successful growth of their economies. Today the work of the committee is aimed at
supporting a large number of people to make their own capital, and consequently, this promotes the Chechen economy, said Avkhan
Dzhamulaev. This material was prepared by using the information from the press service of the President and the government.
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11 May 2008 Private business gains momentum in Chechnya Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has
met with the head of the customs service department in the Chechen Republic, Islam Vazarkhanov. This was reported by the press
service of the President and government. Islam Vazarkhanov briefed the President about the work that had been carried out by the
customs service. The customs service collected 3351.5 million rubles in the first quarter of 2008 and this is an increase by
764.2 million rubles compared with the same period of the last year, a growth of 129.5%, said I. Vazarkhanov. He told the
President the consolidated revenue of the first quarter was 1148.8 million rubles and local budget had received 498.4 million
out of this sum. This is a growth of 316.7 million rubles or 138.1% compared with the same period of the previous year. Islam
Vazarkhanov also told the President that there had been a growth in the number of people who had been engaged in small and
medium-sized business compared with the previous year. This shows that the economy of the republic is strengthening. President
Ramzan Kadyrov thanked Islam Vazarkhanov for doing a good job and said the republics economic performances had been quite good.
Lately Russian and foreign investors have invested more money in the republic and this is convincing evidence that the Chechen
economy and the republic as a whole are stable, said Ramzan Kadyrov. The Chechen President emphasized the significance of the
policy pursued by the customs service and expressed gratitude to I. Vazarkhanov and his staff for doing a good job and had urged
the customs officers to work energetically to achieve progress. At the end of the discussion I. Vazarkhanov told the President
that the customs department would shift to new building shortly and had expressed gratitude for helping to build the new office
in Grozny.
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10 May 2008 Chechnya marks the 85th anniversary of the newspaper Daimokhk, which published in
Chechen language
One of the oldest news papers of Chechnya, Daimokhk or Native Land has marked its 85th anniversary. It was founded on the 23rd
of April 1923 and was named Servo or Light and was headed by the classic of Chechen literature at the time Said-Bei Arsanov. On
the initiative of the staff of the newspaper the daily was renamed in 1991 and has been bearing the current name. Today, the
editor-in-chief of the news paper is merited journalist of Chechnya Lecha Abdulaev. Daimokhk is the only newspaper that has
always published in the Chechen language. According to Lecha Abdulaev, the circulation of the newspaper is 5 000 and it is
published 3 times a week. The newspaper is public and political and it broaches developments in the republic and culture and
Chechnyas history. L. Abdulaev noted that the programme of the ceremonies devoted to the anniversary would be included
roundtable conferences on the role of the Daimokhk in the preservation of the Chechen language and its development and newspaper
Daimokhk and traditional culture of Chechen people. A concert was staged in Grozny involving popular groups and dancing groups
to honour the staff of the newspaper. President Raman Kadyrov congratulated the staff and emphasized that the anniversary of the
newspaper had occupied a special place among traditional holidays and had been tribute of the unlimited respect of the people of
the republic, state and society to the native language, owing to which centuries old values of the people, culture and
historical monuments had been created.
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Chechen history
Chechens one the worlds most ancient people
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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