Culture

March 12, 2023 17:41

• Kadyrov boasts of his daughter's award from president of South Ossetia

  Alan Gagloev, the president of South Ossetia, has decorated Aishat Kadyrova, the Chechen Minister of Culture, with the Order of Friendship for her great contribution to the development of the Chechen-South-Ossetian relations, Ramzan Kadyrov has boasted.

March 02, 2023 18:52

• Chechen theatre official claims apology from Sokurov

  Khava Akhmadova, the head of the Chechen State Drama Theatre, has treated the statement of film director Alexander Sokurov about the cultural interests of residents of Northern Caucasus as a reason for his apology.

February 24, 2023 14:58

• At Berlinale, Malika Musaeva's film tells about Chechen women's hard fate

  Malika Musaeva's debut film "The Cage Looks for a Bird" was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). This is the only film from Russia and the first in the Festival history entirely in the Chechen language.

January 27, 2023 23:58

• Chechen MPs suggest protecting religious literature from fighters against extremism

  The Parliament of Chechnya has submitted to the Russian State Duma a draft law on a ban on recognizing canonical Islamic and Christian texts as extremist materials. Attempts to treat them as forbidden literature outrage the believers, the MPs have explained.

January 25, 2023 23:16

• Film by Sokurov's pupil included into Berlin Film Festival programme

  The film by Malika Musaeva, a pupil of the famous film director, Alexander Sokurov, entitled "A bird is looking for a cage" has been included into the Encounters programme of the Berlin Film Festival.

November 21, 2022 13:03

• Social network users dispute with Kadyrov about Chechen language

  The Chechen language is dying out; it must be made the main communication language in families, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Residents of Chechnya are fluent in Chechen; the demands of the head of the republic are excessive, users of the social network "VKontakte" have objected.

November 18, 2022 23:59

• Human rights defenders call on Kokov to stop attacks on Institute for Humanitarian Studies

  Human rights defenders from Kabardino-Balkaria report that the police conducted searches at places of residence of some employees of the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute for Humanitarian Studies, and a campaign is being launched against them on social media.

November 05, 2022 18:33

• Prior to concert in Grozny, Chechen Ministry of Culture examined Jony's songs

  All the songs of the singer Jony of Azerbaijani origin that he performed in Grozny had been censored, Elina Murtazova, assistant to the Minister of Culture of Chechnya, has stated.

October 29, 2022 16:23

• Video of detention of resident of Dagestan for shooting at wedding sparks disputes in Web

  A resident of the Tarumovsky District who fired a submachine gun at a wedding in Kizlyar followed the traditions, some Telegram users have pointed out. Their opponents have objected stating that the tradition that violates the public order is out of place.

October 24, 2022 18:05

• Investigators refuse to detain law enforcers-figurants in case of beating schoolboy

  Investigators have refused to arrest the law enforcers suspected of beating up a 14-year-old Volgograd schoolboy; and gave no answer at all to the petition demanding to remove them from service, Alyona Maksaeva, an advocate, has stated.

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