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Extending a helping hand to Chechnya | To Chechen children

Childrens Summer Holidays in Chechnya Will Be the Best Ones

Vakha Yusupov, head of the Nadterechny districts juvenile administrative department, is convinced that Chechnyas beautiful nature, picturesque mountains, forests and rivers may add to the fact that children will like their summer holidays in the republic. The main task now is to revive sanatorium-resort and camp base something that will make it possible to save money and avoid sending children outside Chechnya for summer holidays. Vakha Yusupov realizes that the revival is a complicated process, adding that the Chechen President pledged to lend support to resolving the problem. The President vowed to help, Vakha Yusupov says,- and that means that the work is sure to be done. Meanwhile, every Chechen school opened health improvement camps for their pupils with thousands of children planning to spend their summer holidays in the North Caucasus neighboring regions. The district administration strictly controls conditions local authorities created for Chechen child ren.
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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 537
03.07.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

03 July 2008 Veterinary attracts young specialists
Head of the Gudermess regional veterinary lab Amir Abdulkhadjiev has all reasons to be in a good mood. From January his lab has accomplished almost 22 thousand original studies on contagious abortion instead of the planned 21 thousand. His laboratory includes 9 personnel. Their average age is around 22. Amir Abdulkhadjiev is delighted that more young people decide to follow into his footsteps and that he can pass his experience to younger generation. They also work in the field and explain dangers of various diseases to local people, visit markets and local villages to offer consultations and diagnose animals. All this is done to make sure that samples of a fallen animal should be quickly delivered to the laboratory. The main veterinary office of Chechnya provides the Gudermess lab with equipment and medicines. Several animal farms are expected to be opened in the region shortly.
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02 July 2008  There can be no library without readers Libraries across Russia, and Chechnya is not an exception, are holding various conferences, gatherings and other events as part of the Year of the Family in this country. The central library of the Chechen capital Grozny holds sporadic kickbacks of parents or whole families. For instance, the Sirievs the head of this family passed away several years ago, and his wife is bringing up four kids. All of them are library regulars and, as Director of the library Olias Eldaeva told us, joined a very interesting discussion about literature and art, life and family values some time ago. There are plenty of similar examples, so it is not surprising that the Grozny region took one of the first places on a festival that brought together most reading families in the republic. Regional libraries are planning to hold a large family conference which may be devoted to a recent book about Chechnya by Adiz Kusaev. They do all they can to attract more readers. Ms Eldaeva says that the printed book cannot be killed by the Internet. The real education is to broaden ones outlook by reading, as it helps to learn about far away places in Russia and abroad. Olias Eldaeva is also content that regional libraries at present receive books on a more systematic basis. Last year, they got about 1300 books on local studies, reference materials, fiction and historical literature. So she is sure that soon libraries will be able to provide all kinds of books for all kinds of readers.
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01 July 2008  Pupils Holidays in the Shelkovsk region
This year, pupils summer holidays in the Shelkovsk region kickstarted as early as spring. According to the official at the regional education department Nura Eltaeva, since March a health resort in the downtown of the city of Nalchik in the neighboring Kabardino-Balkar republic welcomed groups of kids who came there for a three-week period. Those groups numbered about a hundred or a hundred and fifty students. They arrived there not only to have a rest, but also to continue their education. Local teaching staff accompanied by Shelkovsk region school teachers formed teaching groups from pupils of the same age. In summer, when school is over, pupils can fully enjoy themselves and make some new acquaintances. The first group has already come back home from Nalchik. The second - which includes 130 pupils will arrive soon. Local authorities in the Shelkovsk region do not only try to pamper pupils on their holidays but also to provide quality sport school facilities suitable for both school and wider community use.
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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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