Respect of elders. Every Chechen family, without a single exception, respects and cares about the elder generations of its members, in particular about the parents.
A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens – Nokhchuo – was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other. “Grace seldom rests on places …
We share a summary of the book “Vainakh Ethics†on customs and traditions of Chechens by Edi Isaev. It is an utmost important work.
Today a Chechen woman has set herself on fire in the Spanish town of Alicante, apparently protesting the expulsion of her family from a Red Cross apartment, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports.
According to Russian-Tatar Islamic News Network ASN-News, Egypt Security Service arrested 198 students among them from Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Uvays Mezhidovich Akhtayev was a prominent Chechen basketball player, master of sport in the former Soviet Union. Being a 238-centimeter-high man, he was to be famed at basketball courts.
The ECHR cases of Basayeva and others (application nos. 15441/05 and no. 20731/04); Khumaydov and Khumaydov v. Russia (no. 13862/05); Nenkayev and others v. Russia (no. 13737/03).
At the beginning of the 21st century in the Chechen Republic Ichkeria, there is a fierce war between the Russian aggressor and Chechen nation. Victims of this war, the Chechen people, are doomed to destruction, …
You may watch online the documentary movie,”Chechnya Confrontation” prepared by Nizam Production in association with Broz Production about the Chechens and dirty war in Chechnya.
Chechens live on small territory which, in various periods of history, was the target of ambitious interests of various peoples who were powerful at the time. Each contact with the strangers caused a cataclysm (catastrophe) …
On May 25, 2009, 19 years old resident of Urus-Martan district in Chechnya has been kidnapped by unidentified members of puppet law enforcement agencies.
Alla Dudaeva, the widow wife of Chechen Republic Ichkeria’s I.President Dzhokhar Dudaeva have opened her painting exhibition in a Georgian town Zugdidi which is the city of the first President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
In his formative monograph on abrechestvo, Yuri Botiakov argues that the abrek exists on the threshold dividing death from life.[1] He counter poses this view with Russian and Soviet ethnography’s traditional reading of abrechestvo, which …
According to populer daily Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the decisions of the Polish Office for Foreigners threaten to expel Chechen asylum seekers Ruslan Mierzhoyev and his family to Russia.
The Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Parliament, Akhyad Idigov and the widow wife of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria’s I.President, Alla Dudaeva published a letter for the congratulating of the …
“Desert Mirages”, a short story by famous Chechen writer Taisa Irs. It was the only one translated story of the 2008 Short Story Competition at ShortStoryRadio.com webpage.
According to the British newspaper The Daily Mirror, the English intelligence service MI6 have uncovered a plot by a Russian hitman to assassinate ex-Foreign Minister of Chechen Republic Ichkeria Akhmad Zakayev at a London hotel.
The Oslo Freedom Forum was held May 18-20, 2009, in Oslo, Norway. This conference brought together some of the world’s leading minds to honor heroic survivors of political oppression and persecution—men and women who risked …
