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19 May 2008 Lermontov Theatre Prepares to Move to a New Building
The State Russian dramatic theatre named after Mikhail Lermontov is ready to move to a new building, says director of the
theatre, Raisa Mezhidova. Lately, the theater company has been working in a building belonging to the republican ministry of
culture, also renting premises from different centers of culture to hold rehearsals. Lermontov Theater has a myriad of problems,
the major one being a shortage of specialists like producers, decorators and modelers, Grozny-Inform says. Despite these
difficulties, the theater lives on and successfully stages plays not only in Chechnya, but also beyond the republic. In
September, the theater will be 70 years old and the theater company has already begun preparing for the occasion. In the past,
the Russian dramatic theater was located in the Grozny theater-concert hall, which was destroyed during the anti-terrorist
operations. Reconstruction has been going now for 7 years and the republican leadership has ordered the builders to complete
reconstruction work by May of this year.
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18 May 2008 One police, three servicemen injured in Chechnya militant clash A policeman and
three federal troops were wounded after a clash with militants in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's troubled North Caucasus
Region, a local police source said on Sunday.
Combat engagement with a group of about 15 militants occurred in a forest near the village of Tangi in the Urus-Martan district
in central Chechnya on Saturday during a search operation carried out by police and federal troops, the police source said.
Large-scale conflicts between federal troops and separatists are over in Chechnya, but militants continue to stage regular
attacks on federal troops and Kremlin-backed police and authorities.
The neighboring regions in Russia's volatile North Caucasus have also been plagued by sporadic militant attacks.
RIA Novosti
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18 May 2008 Festival of Reading Family is to be Held in Chechnya
As part of the Year of the family announced in Russia, the Chechen childrens library has for the first time in recent years,
announced the staging of a republican creative festival Reading Family. 18 heads of the regional and town libraries, who
attended a seminar, held recently in the conference, have been briefed about the aims of the festival, Grozny-Inform agency
reports. Children aged 7 to 16 years, mastering any literary genre, are eligible to take part in the festival to be held in
three stages. The jury of the festival has already got the first contributions for the festival competition. May 20 is the
deadline. Selection of the best materials will commence ends on May 25. The finals of the festival, at which winners and other
laureates will receive their awards, are to be held on May 29th in Grozny. The holding of the Reading family festival will
promote spiritual and moral training of the up and coming generation, the more so that the aim can be achieved via acquaintance
with the origins of the national culture, love of the mother tongue and literature in general, declared Chechen culture
minister, Dikaly Muzakayev.
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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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