"Chechen Radio | "Chechnya Free.ru" Radio station

You can listen to Free Chechnya Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM Moscow time on a frequency of 594 kHz on the medium wave band and on a frequency of 171 kHz on the long wave band. The programme is created with the involvement of the Ministry for culture and mass communication of the Russian Federation.
(live broadcasting......)

Chechen culture | Education

Schools in Grozny prepare for the new academic year

Schools in Grozny are intensively being repaired this year. They will be commissioned before the start of the new academic year. According to the deputy head of the education department in charge of construction, Magomed Bagaev, the repairs are being carried out in three directions. Repairs are going on ten schools under the presidential programme. The dates of commissioning should be informed to the President in advance. In short, there will be no problems concerning the repairs since Ramzan Kadyrov personally handles all issues. Moreover, the city administration is responsible for repairing another 14 schools in Leninsky, Zavodsky and Oktyabr districts of Grozny. The mayor of the city Muslim Khuchiev has taken under his control the work linked with repairing these schools. He personally checks the work so that schools will be ready by the end of August, before the academic year starts. The other schools are being financed under a special federal programme. This concerns 12 schools, which will be ready by September. Intensive work is going on in schools Nos 6, 10, 27, 37, 54, and 61 and college No. 4 in Staropromyslovsky district. The construction of new five schools started in January, and they will also be commissioned before the 1st of September. Another three schools will be commissioned in Oktyabr district shortly. They are secondary schools Nos 5, 9 and 34.
(more ......)

Chechen diaspora

Opportunities for cooperation exist

Movlad Geldibayev, law professor, author of many articles and monographs on jurisprudence has been heading the Chechen Presidents liaison office in St. Petersburg and the North -Western Federal District for 6 months now, which is a very brief period of time. He has, however, been able to do something: the Chechens live in St. Petersburg work, study and go about their daily business like the rest inhabitants of the city. The major problem is that it is difficult for the Chechen Diaspora to hold regular meetings, but the leaders of the liaison office maintain constant contact with all the Chechens in the city and are abreast of their problems and if the need arises, arrange individual meeting. Plans are in hand to reactivate work of the cultural center and arrange regular cultural programs as soon as the center has its own premises. It would be nice to invite the Vainakh troupe or any other popular ensemble, but much depends on money. The problem of financing can be solved,- says M.Geldibayev. - The Russian theater from Grozny named after Lermontov recently visited the city on the banks of the Neva River and presented there the play Knights of the Mountain to a packed hall in St. Petersburg. The large audience included not only Chechens, but also many people from other nationalities living in the city. The Chechen liaison office and officials of the Chechen community in St. Petersburg keep watch over the republics youth and students. Chechen students can be found in different educational institutions in the city and, being a teacher himself, M. Geldibayev knows how to communicate with the youth. (more...)

Issue 541
07.08.08

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

07 August 2008 City prosecutors office set on fire in Dagestans Kizlyar
A two-storey building of the city prosecutors office was set on fire in the city of Kizlyar in Russias southern republic of Dagestan early on Thursday, sources from the local rescue service told Tass. They said the incident occurred at about 4 am, Moscow time. According to the sources, several people wearing masks stormed the building, battered the guard and tied his hands. According to preliminary data, they threw Molotov cocktails into windows of the ground floor. Four offices were destroyed by fire as a result. An investigation brigade is working at the site. Criminal proceedings were instituted.
(more News from Chechnya...)

05 August 2008  Mobile police post comes under fire in North Caucasus, man wounded Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a mobile police post Russias North Caucasus region of Ingushetia late night Monday, sources at the regional Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass Fire was opened at a mobile police post in the Center-KAMAZ area in the town of Nazran, a source said. No one among the policemen suffered in the incident, but a 33-year-old local resident was wounded and taken to hospital. Interior forces have launched an operation to catch and detain the criminals, he said. Itar-Tass
(more News from Chechnya...)

05 August 2008  Cascade of hydropower stations on the River Argun
A cascade of ten hydropower stations will be built on the River Argun. This was informed by an official of the presidential and governmental press service, Zarema Aslakhanova. Public and political situation in Chechnya has normalized and favourable changes have lately taken place in the region. Currently, the republic has shifted to the new stage of its revival in which work on energy saving and power generation play a key role in achieving economic progress. Moreover, Chechnya has drawn up an investment project to use hydropower resources of the River Argun. According to its Industry Ministry, the overall capacity of hydropower stations is about 800 megawatt. In fact, hydropower stations generate cheaper electricity, 20% cheaper than that of thermal power stations. The project is estimated at more than 7 billion rubles, and the cascade generates 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year. The individual projects of the power stations have already been drawn up. The ten hydropower stations will be built between the village of Chiri-Yurt and city of Itum-Kali in the mountainous district. The cascade of hydropower stations on the River Argun will meet demand for electricity not only in Chechnya. It will supply electricity to other Russian regions. It will also promote the Chechen economy and produces revenue to the republican budget, said Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Planning and surveying work on the river will be started shortly.
(more News from Chechnya...)

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.
(more ...)

Copyright © CHECHNYA FREE.RU