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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 536
27.06.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

27 June 2008 Chechen Farmers Hope for Rich Crop
According to Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev, about 85 million tons of grain crops are slated to be gathered in Russia this year. As compared with the results of last year, the figure will increase by as many as 3 million tons. The Chechen Agriculture Ministry also hopes that 2008 will prove to be a successful year for local farmers, who are scheduled to gather a rich harvest. The Chechen farmers have been so far favored with good weather. Mild winter and relatively rainy spring contributed to promoting favorable conditions for developing winter crops, which will ripen on more than 7,500 hectares of ploughed field. Another 48,000 hectares are sown by spring crops. With the sowing company almost finished by June 1, Chechen farms are currently engaged in chemical cultivation of the sown areas. In the past three years, Chechen state farms have used seeds of their own production. Most farms are now reliably provided with brand-new agriculture equipment as well as petroleum ,oil and lubricants. As many as 3 most advanced grain combine harvesters have been supplied to Chechnya of late something that will make it possible to facilitate the process of gathering the crop and reduce possible losses. The negotiations with Rosagrolising on supplying new batches of agriculture equipment to Chechnya are already in the pipeline. The republic is also slated to get as many as 11 grain combine harvesters with trailers with a relevant agreement slated to be inked in the near future. Aside from cereals, sugar-beet also remains a priority crop for Chechnya. This year, as much as 3,000 hectares were set aside for the crop. Thanks to adopting a republican program called the Revival of sugar-beet growing, the branch is reliably provided with agriculture equipment. Chechen sugar-beet breeders currently have as many as 8 Russian-made sugar-beet combine harvesters and a German-made multi- purpose sugar-beet combine harvester. The 2008 sowing company will for the first time see a new technology, which significantly reduce the use of manual labor when sowing sugar-beet. At least 100,000 tons of raw sugar-beet are expected to be gathered this year in a move that will surely add to normal work of the Argun sugar-refinery, due to be put into operation in late August. The restoration of land-reclamation systems substantially contributes to raising the level of crop yield. The Naursk-Shelkovsk irrigation canal the biggest in the republic- was put into operation on May 22. Cleaning and filling Chechnyas irrigation canals with water are now fulfilled by state farms. Last year, Chechen rice growers sadly signaled considerable crop losses in the wake of unusually dry weather. The reconstruction of land-reclamation systems is almost sure to secure heavy harvest in 2008. Although moisture-loving and labor-intensive rice brings myriad problems to the Chechen farmers, the republic is not going to reduce sown areas of this heavy yielder. Whats more, Chechnya plans to further enhance sown rice areas with simultaneous recultivation of former rice fields. As much as 1,500 hectares are to be set aside for rice crops next year a figure that is twice as much as compared with that of the year 2008. The Chechen government points to the citizens increasing push for agrarian work. According to the Agriculture Ministrys senior officials, they are bombarded with applications from both city dwellers and villagers, who are eager to lease state allotments in a bid to deal with agrarian activities. This is another spirit of the new times, according to which the present0day Chechnya is beginning to develop.
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26 June 2008  Construction of the first out of ten hydropower stations on the River Argun starts shortly The construction of the first out of ten planned hydropower stations on the River Argun will be started in October, said an aide to Minister of Industry and Energy, Alkhazur Saidiev in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency. Contracts on the construction of the hydropower stations will be signed stage by stage. The contract for designing and prospecting work was signed on the 14th of May 2008, Saidiev said. Slovakias Rikka-Group is engaged in designing the hydropower station. According to Saidiev, the Industry Ministry provides the Slovakian company with the results of geological, topographical and hydrological researches. Expertise will help to determine the capacity of the hydropower station. Designing and prospecting will be completed in two or three months, Saidiev told the agency. A memorandum on cooperation will be signed between the Chechen leadership and the Vneshekonombank shortly. It provides for the setting up of the Republic Development Corporation, a joint- stock company. The corporation will realize several investment projects including the construction of the cascade of hydropower stations. Chechnyas share in its authorized fund is 80%, while the rest belong to the bank, Saidiev said. The project is expected to realize in five years. The cost of the construction of cascade and related infrastructure, according to Rikka-Group, is estimated at 85 million rubles.
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25 June 2008  Mirza Aliev hosted master-class in Grozny
The general director of "Lenoblkino" Mirza Aliyev arrived in Grozny from Saint Petersburg to take part in the First International Film Festival Noahs Ark and meet with the actors of the Nuradilov Drama Theater and students of the acting department of the Chechen State University, Grozny-Inform reported. I would like to say that the Noahs Ark film festival proves that finally peace came to your land. And I think one of the major goals of this forum is to give Chechen families a sense of full life and security. Today film making, both in Russia and worldwide, can give an impulse of creation to people of any nationality. Cinema teaches us to like the good and hate the evil. The audience liked the meeting with Mirza Aliev and appreciated his Caucasian sense of humor.
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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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