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Chechen culture | Cultural events

No culture - no people

Director of the Nadterechny House of Culture, Sima Takayeva strongly believes in this wise saying and hence she dedicates all her knowledge and energy to improving and enlarging the work of the House under her care. The House of Culture, recently given a facelift with the help of the regional head of administration, accommodates five classes, among which are drama, vocal, choral and variety show houses. Each of the classes has dozens of children, the most popular being the dance class under the guidance of The Merited worker of culture of Chechnya, ballet master Kazbek Dzugayev. Small, intermediate and older children learn the art of dancing in this class. By rebuilding Chechnya, we are rebuilding our folklore, - said Sima Takayeva, adding, - we want to move with the times, but not forgetting traditions and customs of our grandfathers and fathers. Keeping of traditions is the basis of culture, without which there will be no people, she said. Children in the Nadterechny House of Culture classes are contributing to the revival of the ages- old traditions.
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Chechen culture | Ethnic chechens beyond the border of Chechnya: culture ahd life

Days of Chechen Culture in Ufa

Chechnya and Bashkortostan have long been having warm ties and the Chechen cultural-and-social center BART that has for a long time been headed by Lom-Ali Israilov, deserves credit for it. The yearly staging of Days of Chechen culture festival in Ufa has become an established tradition and this years it has been especially significant, attracting broad public attention. For two weeks exhibitions, photographs, display of national costumes, national musical instruments and paintings mounted in the Ural Central City Gallery were among other events arranged to celebrate Days of Chechen culture festival in Ufa. Senior members of staff of the Gallery and other workers dealing with the cultural field in Ufa did much to make the exhibitions and other events a success. Chechen businessmen living and working in Ufa contributed money to make the event more memorable; Chechen students in Ufa also helped to prepare for the celebration. The exhibition of photographs under the slogan Children - Our Future featured photographs of Chechen and Bashkortostan children, and most of them were taken by Lom-Ali Israilov. (more...)

Issue 540
30.07.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

30 July 2008 Russian serviceman killed, 3 injured in Chechnya
A serviceman of the Russian Interior Troops was killed, other three were injured in a clash with a group of gunmen in Chechnya. Officers of the temporary operative police group of the Russian Interior Ministry and servicemen of the Interior Troops engaged in the fight with about 30 gunmen in the forest on Tuesday afternoon three kilometers away from Malye Varandy in the Grozny region, a source in the republican law enforcement agencies told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. During the shootout a contract serviceman was killed, the squad commander and other two contract servicemen were injured and hospitalized, the source said. The search operation for the gunmen is underway. Itar-Tass
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28 July 2008  Militants kill soldier in south Russia shootout A soldier was killed in a clash with militants in a mountainous area in the south of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a police source said on Monday. "The shootout occurred on Sunday afternoon, one kilometer from the village of Syuzhi in the Shatoi District," the official said. "Militants ambushed servicemen on a reconnaissance mission and opened fire. One contract serviceman was killed in the brief skirmish." The official said the attackers escaped, and that some may have suffered injuries. Many gunmen who are still active in the province, which saw two wars between separatists and government troops since the mid- 1990s, are based in the mountainous south. The region is still plagued by frequent violence, although major fighting subsided several years ago, and the largely Muslim republic has undergone substantial reconstruction. RIA Novosti
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28 July 2008  Ingushetia deputy mufti injured in shooting
Ingushetias deputy mufti was wounded in the shooting in Nazran on Thursday. Unidentified persons opened fire on Kombulat Zyazikov from automatic rifles at 10:00 Moscow time, the republics law enforcers told Itar-Tass. Attackers were seen on a VAZ-2107 white colour car. The incident took place on the Nazran-Karabulak highway. The deputy mufti was hospitalised. Law enforcers are combing the area to detain the attackers. Itar-Tass
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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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