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Chechen culture | Cultural events

Preparations for the first international film festival Noahs Ark are going on in Grozny

The preparations for the first international film festival Noahs Ark that will be held in Grozny from the 13th through 19th of June have entered its final stage, said its general director, Zoya Zalevskaya. The idea of holding such a large-scale cultural forum in Chechnya was put forward late last year after the retrospective demonstration films of the International Festival of Moslem Films Golden Minbar in Grozny. According to Zoya Zalevskaya, the selection of films out of 150 films from over 35 countries has ended. In all 11 feature films, 13 short films and 19 documental films from 21 countries have been selected for the competition programme. The selecting committee included Uma da Gunna, India, journalist and film critic Salah Sermini, France, Professor of the University of Cinematography, head of the international fund of peoples culture, Christian Wagner, Germany and journalist and film critic Reza Shahrudi, Iran. The jury of Noahs Ark film festival will be headed by famous director and head of Georgia Film, the Peoples Artist of the Soviet Union, Revaz Chkheidze. He is famous first and foremost as the director of the film, Father of Soldier. Chechen republic will be represented by a famous actor, chairman of the union of cinematographers of the North Caucasus, Dagun Omaev. Film 12 by Nikita Mikhalkov opens the festival and Alexandra by Alexander Sakurov will be screened on the final day.
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Chechen economics

Reconstruction of Chechnya is Going On

Rebuilding of houses in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, is going full speed ahead. Grozny-Inform news agency reports that the Kazbek Company as the general contractor has resumed restoring of f 5-storey building at 122, Raskova Street, as part of the first stage of the outside program of the restoration of the city. Twenty-nine objects in Saikhanov, Nakhimov, Zabolotny and Samashkinsky Streets in Grozny have been fully restored. Adjacent territories are being giving facelift and by May 1 the objects were declared ready, Said Ali Abdulkhalimov, chief of the construction and materials section has said. Two mountain villages in the Shatoisky region - Nochtch-Keloya and Chobakkeneroya - are being supplied with electricity. (more...)

Issue 531
29.05.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

29 May 2008 Agriculture is to be Revived
Khasan Deniyev, head of the agriculture section in the Kurchaloyevsky regional administration is absolutely sure about it. Indeed, year in year out, the regional performance in agriculture gets better - this year, up to 3.5 thousand hectares have been cultivated and the plans for winter planting have been exceeded. The area set aside for beet planting, which the region now gives greater attention to, has been increased to 500 hectares from the planned 460. Kh.Deniyev regrets that several parcels of land remain fallow due to shortages of equipment, believing however, that the problem can be solved with the help of the President of the republic, who cannot but pay special attention to the development of agriculture. Under the Federal special programme for development of agriculture, animal husbandry is to be revived in the region and in the next three years a number of large farms are to be revived and cattle is to be purchased and brought to the republic. At the same time, Kh. Deniyev is absolutely sure that the governments involvement in agriculture should not lag behind private sector.
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28 May 2008  Heavy rains with hail cut power supply for about 15,000 people in Ingushetia About 15,000 people remained without the power supply in Ingushetia due to a heavy rain and a hail on Sunday. Some crops were destroyed in the Nazran and Sunzha regions, a source in the republican government told Itar-Tass on Monday. The Ingush Emergencies Ministry reported that now Kantyshevo and Dalakovo in the Nazran region and some districts in the town of Karabulak are remaining without the power supply. Electricians are eliminating ruptures on the power lines. They pledge that the power supply will have been restored by 3 am Moscow time in these settlements. A special committee is evaluating the damages to the croplands.
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27 May 2008  Daghestan's finance official escapes assassination attempt
An explosive device planted under a car belonging to a top official from Daghestan's finance ministry went off early on Monday in Makhachkala, the republic's capital, a police source said. "The explosion seriously damaged the car, but no one was injured," the source said. A criminal case has been launched, an investigation is underway. Terrorist attacks and assassinations remain widespread in Russia's republics of Ingushetia and Daghestan, as violence spills over from neighboring Chechnya, although the Kremlin has ended its campaign to fight separatists and terrorists there. On Sunday Colonel Akhmedudin Absaludinov, a deputy head investigator at the republic's interior ministry, was shot dead in the center of Makhachkala by an unknown assailant, a police source said.
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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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