• Apti Bisultanov’s Poetry Book Published in Georgia

    February 28, 2011 | admin

    As we earlier mentioned, the well-known Chechen poet Apti Bisultanov was in Georgia to attend a conference on the deportation of the Chechen-Ingush nation in 1944, and to present his newly published poetry book in both the Chechen and Georgian language.

  • Deportation on 23rd February 1944 Remembered

    February 24, 2011 | admin

    Yesterday was the 67th anniversary of Stalin’s deportations of the Chechen and Ingush people. Vainakh people and their friends commemorated those painful days all around the world.

  • “Their Life”: Chechen Youth in Berlin

    January 19, 2011 | admin

    “Their Life”, a cultural project which starts on January 20 and continues for one month, will explain the lives of Chechen people in Germany.

  • Chechen Cultural Evening in Berlin

    December 25, 2010 | admin

    According to the German-Caucasian Society, there will be a Chechen cultural evening with participation by Chechen refugees in Germany on December 27, 2010 in Berlin.

  • Memory by Apti Bisultanov

    June 10, 2010 | admin

    We present you another poem of Apti Bisultanov, which name is “Memory”. The original version of the poem is also available in the text.

  • Apti Bisultanov: Exiled in Berlin

    February 18, 2010 | admin

    Apti Bisultanov experiments with both traditional Chechen literary genres and free verse. Bisultanov, who has fought as a partisan in Chechnya, is of the opinion that religion and poetry cannot be kept apart.

  • Hoarse Hawk by Apti Bisultanov

    October 22, 2009 | admin

    A poem by most well-known Chechen poet Apti Bisultanov (includes original Chechen language text).

  • Khaibakh by Apti Bisultanov

    July 8, 2009 | admin

    A poem about the Khaibakh Massacre on February 27,1944 during the Operation Lentil (the mass deportation of Chechen nation to Central Asia and Sibiria on February 1944). As it was impossible to convoy deportees to the railway stations on the plain due to a snowstorm, 700 villagers, including women and children, were locked in the stable and burned alive, while those trying to escape were shot.

  • “A Thoroughbred Night” by Apti Bisultanov

    May 30, 2009 | admin

    A poem which name is “A Thoroughbred Night”, written by famous Chechen poet Apti Bisultanov on 1983.

  • “Born to be Free!” by Apti Bisultanov

    May 27, 2009 | admin

    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) for the Chechens as the powerful people usually have only one instrument to achieve their goals – force. The use of force triggers war and any war causes numerous losses and ruins everything what has been created.

  • First poem after leaving Chechnya

    May 12, 2009 | admin

    The first poem of famous Chechen poet Apti Bisultanov after he has to left from his homeland Chechnya.

  • Apti Bisultanov

    May 18, 2008 | admin

    Apti Bisultanov was born in 1959 in Goichu near Urus-Martan. His father returned from the Second World War wounded and died early. Apti Bisultanov studied philology and worked as a senior lecturer, an editor and a publisher.