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Sports | Sport today

Terek of Grozny lodges complaints against the refereeing the match with Tom

The Terek football club of Grozny has lodged complaints against, as it says, unfair refereeing during a home match against Tom in the championship of the Russian Federation. The match was refereed by Alexei Nikolaev and ended with the defeat of Terek by 3-1. According to the web site of the Terek, the decisions by the referee had affected the result.
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Chechen history | Chechnya is to celebrate the 61th anniversary of the Great Victory

School children and teachers mark the Victory Day

These days all Russians pay homage to the heroes who sacrificed their lives during the Great Patriotic War and honour veterans of the war and rear. The children in Gudermes district not only mark the Victory Day but also help veterans. They often visit veterans and help them to do the work at homes and bring them goods from shops. They also visit the relatives of those who have passed away. Veterans are welcomed at the school events. Meanwhile, teachers of the district marked the holiday with excellent performances in their professional activity. In all 13 best teachers demonstrated their teaching capability and the mastering of new teaching technology in a district competition of the Teacher of the Year All-Russian competition. (more...)

Issue 527
15.05.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

15 May 2008 Police checkpoint attacked in Chechnya, no injuries
A police checkpoint has come under fire in Russia's troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a source in local law enforcement agencies said. The accident occurred at 2.00 a.m. local time on Thursday (22.00 GMT Wednesday) as a group of unknown assailants in four vehicles attacked the checkpoint, located on the federal Kavkaz highway near the village of Assinov. There are no reports of casualties. The six police officers who were on duty at the time returned fire, forcing their attackers to flee the scene, the source told the agency. The suspected militants are believed to have come from the neighboring republic of Ingushetia. Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes remain common in Russia's North Caucasus republics, although the active phase of the Kremlin campaign against militants in Chechnya is officially over. RIA Novosti
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15 May 2008  Artists stage a charitable concert for seriously ill children The artists of the state childrens ensemble of songs and dances, Daimokhk has presented a real holiday to seriously ill children of Chechnya, who follow courses of treatment and rehabilitation at the No. 2 psycho-neurological home for children during the holidays. The young artists showed their complete programme on a stage built in the garden of the hospital. They have shown the programme not only in the republic but also in several European countries during the tours and international festivals. Peoples artist of the republic Amina Akhmadova participated in the concert, says Grozny-Inform news agency. Chechen Culture Minister Dikalu Muzakaev delivered a speech before the concert. He said: We are obliged first and foremost to pay attention to such children. These children came to the world like all other people. They were born to ordinary parents who expected them and were happy with their birth. But they have to face a different fate. Prospects of life of these children and their families have become unclear and even frightening. However, handicapped children remain as people. In fact, there is no dividing line between them and us because at any time we may lose the choice. We must do our best to create favourable conditions for these children. The main thing that we must remember is that every one is a human being. Dikalu Muzakaev said that Culture Ministry together with the Grozny administration has worked out a complex plan of events for the handicapped children. As a part of this programme charitable concerts will be staged regularly for sick children. The children, many of which are suffering from incurable diseases, were pleased with the concert. They even danced, applauded and sang as they could. The concert was a holiday for the neighbouring houses. Children and elders gathered when they heard music and saw loving artists and applauded as a gesture of gratitude. Moreover, many people expressed gratitude to the Minister and artists for paying an attention to the sick children.
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14 May 2008  Gunmen kill three policemen in Ingushetia
Three police officers were killed in Ingushetia on Wednesday when their car came under fire on the Pliyevo-Achluki highway at 17:10, Moscow time. "Three police died of their wounds on the spot," a law-enforcement official told Itar-Tass. A group of investigators is working at the scene. Police have launched two special operations to apprehend the attackers. The police were attacked near the settlement of Pliyevo.
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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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