"North Caucasus" newspaper: news, politics, society, culture, customs, traditions of the Northern Caucasus

The reader with bitterness

Almost twenty years have passed since we destroyed the «prison of the peoples». And the free country does not know what it lives for. Everyone lives on his/her own.

In the frames of documentary newsreel of the Great Patriotic War one sometimes sees tanks on the armour of which it is written «For the Motherland!» or «For Stalin!».

Since 24.10.2007 we have been living as if on the active volcano. The wall brickwork in the apartments №86, 87, 89, 90 is cracking, plastering is crumbling away, the walls are sinking, creating a rift between them and the ceiling.

I know and love the newspaper «Northern Caucasus» for a long time. Since it has begun being published and this was, to my mind, some 20 years ago.

For us, the inhabitants of the mountainous Chechen Republic, are memorable the days when here, in the mountains, were ruling the armed detachments of Mujahidin.

New elections – of the head of our city – are in the offing. They will be held in spring, but we are now regularly reminded on them by squabbles between the supporters of the city administration and the opposition.

It is the second year since the so-called Law «on datcha amnesty» has come into effect. It turned out that the datchas, gardens and homestead lands belong to citizens, so to say, - illegally.

In the issue of the "NC" newspaper №35 as of September 2008, in the column «Readers’ letters» was published a letter of our reader I.I. Polishchuk, under the title "A reward for Khakamada". I.M. Khakamada personally commented on the letter and demanded response from the newspaper "North Caucasus".

To the surprise and dismay of a large number of people, in the laws and regulations adopted to improve life in the country there are often serious gaps, which do not improve, but worsen this very life. Such gaps were in the laws of the Soviet period, and they still are in those of today.