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Religion | Islam Today

The An-Nuru is Restored Following Readers Requests

The Islamic newspaper An-Nuru was first issued in Chechnya in 2002. Due to financial woes, it was shut down in 2004 in a move that angered its readers, who bombarded the Muslim Spiritual Department (MSD) of Chechnya with requests to resuscitate the newspaper. And now, the An-Nuru is coming back to life. According to Editor-in-chief Khamzat Khirokhmatov, who is also Chechnyas Deputy Mufti, the newspaper will be printed in Russian and Chechen languages on 8 type pages. With a daily edition of 1,000 copies, it will publish materials on spiritual and moral issues, Fridays sermons and information concerning the MSD activities. Much attention will be paid to topics on fighting drug addiction, dipsomania and AIDS. The Editor-in-Chief is convinced that his newspaper will substantially add to educating Chechen youth. He expressed hope that the An-nuru would be also available to those , who are currently serving their sentence behind bars. Chechen Internet surfers will soon be able to find their favorable newspaper on the MSDs official website. Khamzat Khirokhmatov also informed us that a Committee on the so- called Khalyal products had begun its work in Chechnya. Earlier,the Chechen Mufti took part in an international conference on the Khalyal products in Malaysia an event that prompted him to unfold many useful religious undertakings in the republic.
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Chechen culture | Cinema

The first Noahs Ark international film festival took place in Grozny

The first International film festival- Noahs Ark- took place in the Chechen capital from 13 to 19 of June. Productions from more than 20 countries, including the Arab states, competed for the Noahs Ark award. The Yellow House by Algerian director Amor Hakkar won the best film award. Sherif Elbendaris (Egypt) work At the end of the day won in the best short film nomination. The prize for the best documentary went to Maria Kravchenko for her Collector of Shadows movie. An actress from Iran, Merina Zarei, was awarded for performing the best female role, and Anton Pampushny (Russia) received a prize in the best male actor nomination for acting in the films Alexander and The Battle of the Neva. Lina Chamie (Brazil) received a prize for the best directing in the Milky Way. In all, there were winners in 9 nominations. To celebrate the event the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov invited the guests and participants of the festival to his mansion in Gudermess. (more...)

Issue 535
24.06.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

24 June 2008 Action Called Donate Blood and Save a Life Started in Chechnya
The Grozny Inform reports that an action called Donate blood and save a life has started at the Chechen capitals Transfusion Blood Center an event that coincided with the International Day of Blood Donor. About 100 people took part in the action, which was organized by a regional branch of the Unified Russia party. Among them employees of Chechnyas Interior Ministry, Leninsky and Staropromyslovsky districts Interior Departments, Health Ministry as well as United Russia party members. Said Yakhikhadjiyev, Russias State Duma deputy from Chechnya, stressed that by taking part in the action we will be able to help all those who are now in a desperate need of blood.
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23 June 2008  Swiss specialists pan to hold a conference in Grozny The head of the Swiss office for development and cooperation (SODC) and counselor of the Swiss ambassador in Moscow Mr. Peter Mukula has recently visited the Chechen republic. One of the aims of the visit was discussing prospects for further cooperation and support of the spheres of medicine that need it most. The medical program financed by SODC is focused on assistance and improvement of lab diagnostics of such socially dangerous diseases as tuberculosis, virus hepatitis, support of blood transfusion and prophylactic measures against AIDS. In the framework of his visit, Mr. Mikula met with the leaderships of the Ministry of health, of the AIDS center, of the Center of medical prophylaxis and of the blood transfusion station, as well as with the president of the Chechen state university Zaurbek Saidov and the dean of the medical faculty Zaur Kindarov. In 2009 the Swiss office for development and cooperation plans to hold an international conference on the most acute health problems in Grozny. This year the conference will take place in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Northern Osetia. "The preparations for the conference have to be started right now," says Mr. Peter Mikula. "Probably the most difficult task is to convince specialists from Switzerland and the USA that the Chechen republic is a region with a stable and developing economy and science. The conference is a unique chance to establish strong business ties between Chechnya and the world community, to say nothing of the scientific importance of the event." The leadership of the Chechen state university says that they are eager to cooperate and will try to do their best so that the conference was held on the highest level.
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22 June 2008  Constructive and restoration works have started in the mountain village of Zumsoy
On the initiative from President of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov, restoration has started of the mountain village of Zumsoy, that had been ruined in the course of the two war campaigns in Chechnya. The restoration is a part of a program for developing mountain regions carried out by the Chechen President and is held under the patronage of the republics Executive headquarters for restoration of the economy and infrastructure. Earlier, at a meeting with heads of the republics administrations, President Kadyrov has ordered the chief of this headquarters and the republics minister of construction Akhmad Gekhaev to take the problems of the ruined village under his patronage. Today, according to the local administration, of the 27 houses in Zumsoy, 19 are nearly totally ruined and 8 are seriously damaged. Minister Gekhaev says that he has met with the villagers and took a decision to build 10 new houses as the first step of the restoration. Today we have enabled more than 20 units of machinery to bring construction materials to the village and started clearing the places for the new houses, the minister says. A number of local residents have expressed a will to work at the reconstruction. The village residents still cant believe that after 15 years of wandering they can go back to the place where generations of their families have lived, says head of the administration of the Itum-Kalinsk region Rizavdi Terloev. They are very thankful to President Kadyrov. Besides new houses, it is planned to build a mosque, a school, an office of the administration and a medical station. The construction minister Akhmad Gekhaev promises to finish the work in three months.
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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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