The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 76 | | | 14.03.03 | |Ahmad Kadyrov: Chechnya seeks no| | |special status inside the |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Russian Federation | | | |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |The head of the Chechen |history| traditions| music' 11 Mart 2003 Aid to disabled | |government Ahmad Kadyrov has |people in Chechnya improved this year as compared with the | |told the Interfax-South news |last one | |agency that Chechnya has no |According to the Chechen Ministry of Labour and Social | |intention of seeking a special |Development, some 32,000 invalids make their home in Chechnya.| |status inside the Russian |Of this number 1050 need prosthetic appliances. In 2002 217 | |Federation. "The people of |Chechen residents were given free orthopaedic services. This | |Chechnya have had their fill of |year another 600 crippled people must be provided with | |independence and sovereignty," -|artificial limbs, or more than twice as many maimed people as | |Kadyrov said. Although work has |last year. This has become possible thanks to the fact that an| |already begun, on his |orthopaedic service centre has been set up in Grozny recently.| |instructions, on a draft |Chechen invalids will no longer have to travel to | |agreement between Moscow and the|Rostov-on-Don, Vladikavkaz, Stavropol or other cities to get | |Chechen Republic, Kadyrov was |artificial limbs. The prosthetic and orthopaedic centre in | |not yet ready to say how this |Grozny has been restored with the assistance of the Russian | |new document would be titled. |Ministry of Labour and Social Development. The Russian Cabinet| |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |granted Minister Alexander Pochinoks request for funds to do | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |repair and restoration work, and also purchase and take to | |more...) |Chechnya special purpose equipment by the German company | | |Ottoboko. The International Red Cross has also proved helpful | |Detention of a fourth |in training personnel. It funded the training of eight Chechen| |participant in December's attack|specialists at a similar facility in Sochi. Of course, there | |on the Chechen government |is more to social assistance for Chechen invalids than just | |compound |providing them with artificial prosthetic appliances. Invalids| | |of the Great Patriotic War and other people, entitled to | |Russia's deputy |similar privileges under the law, receive Oka mini-cars free. | |prosecutor-general Sergei |Last year 20 such cars were given to war invalids, this year | |Fridinsky reports the detention |the figure is due to increase notably. The Chechen Ministry of| |of a fourth participant in the |Labour and Social Development has already paid for 50 Oka | |terrorist attack on the Chechen |mini-cars. Also, ever more disabled people are sent to resorts| |government compound carried out |and sanatoria for treatment. In 2001 44 invalids were treated | |on December 27, 2002. Fridinsky |at sanatoria, in 2002 the figure jumped to 303, while this | |describes the detainee as a |year the Chechen Ministry of Labour and Social Development | |suspected "brain behind that |plans to send 600 disabled people to resorts and sanatoria. | |terrorist act." He has told the |According to the chief of the Ministrys Department of invalids| |Russian news agency ITAR-TASS |rehabilitation and social integration Ismail Gagalov, the | |that the detained terrorist was |Government has to pay 8,920 roubles for a place in a | |a member of the Shamil Basayev's|sanatorium for 21 days thats granted to an invalid for free. | |unit but the investigating |The Chechen Government draws on the federal budget to get the | |officers are not yet sure |money to pay for places at sanatoria, as well as for other | |whether Basayev could also be |kinds of social assistance for invalids. | |charged with complicity in the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |terrorist attack of December 27,|(more News from Chechnya) | |2002. "If he is, indeed, the | | |brain [behind that terrorist |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |act] and we find documents to |history| traditions| music 13 Mart 2003 Russian youth can get| |prove this," - Fridinsky said, |education at the secondary schools, high schools or | |-"Basayev will face legal |professional technical collages where they can master a | |charges." Charges have already |specialty and work individually. There are 19 professional and| |been pressed on three |technical collages in Chechnya. Here is a dispatch from our | |earlier-detained residents of |correspondent Aminat Oznieva who visited the professional and | |Chechnya. |technical collage No. 2 in Grozny. The collage has been | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |functioning since 2000. Youth follow courses in motor | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |mechanics, book keeping and clerical work. At present there | |more...) |are one thousand students in the collage and 900 out of them | | |study in its branches in the village of Prigorodnoe, Grozny | | Chechen history |Rural district, Shalazhi, Urus-Martan district, Yalkhoi-Mokhk,| | |Kurchaloevsky district and Nozhai-Yurt. The main building of | |From conflict to stability |the collage in Grozny had long been restored and was opened in| | |2002. Chechnyas Education Ministry finances the | |Scientists sharing their views |reconstruction. The second floor of the building has already | |on ways to normalize the |been repaired, boiler is functioning and the canteen has been | |situation in Chechen republic |opened. The work in the motor-mechanics workshop will be | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |completed soon. Now the workers are installing equipment in | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||it. In addition to education the students are trained in | |traditions| music |several areas. The college has organized a shop to make | | |concrete slabs for roads. In fact, these slabs were among the | | |best one hundred goods in a competition of best quality goods | |19. Prohibition law for |held early this year in Moscow It was awarded a certificate of| |servicemen is proposed for the |quality. The collage pays special attention to orphans. The | |period of their service in |government pays for their education in full. Orphans get money| |Chechnya. |to buy forms and food. The graduates get material aid to buy | |20. Convincing information is |necessary instruments. Collage has established contacts with | |required about inquiries into |similar education establishments in Moscow. Lately, a group of| |terrorist acts, crimes against |teachers and instructors have visited the collage No. 304 in | |civilians, trials and tribunals.|Moscow to exchange experience. Their Moscow colleagues gave | |21. Russian politicians, |them methodological and material assistance. The students of | |journalists and public |the college collected books and toys and sent to Chechnya. The| |activists, who openly call for |Muscovites invited the Chechen students to follow a training | |granting independence to |course at their college. | |Chechnya, have to face moral |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |pressure. Calls of this kind |(more News from Chechnya...) | |lead to further bloodshed, are | | |immoral towards most of Chechen |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |people and demoralize the army. |history| traditions| music 14 Mart 2003 Chechen artists are | |22. Large-scale measures have to|applauded in Moscow | |be taken on the international |A festival of Chechen culture opened with a gala concert on | |scene to defend the policy of |March 11 at Moscow's concert hall "Rossiya." The head of the | |the Russian government and |Chechen government Ahmad-Haji Kadyrov had arrived from Grozny | |clarify the situation in |specially for this and was joined at the opening concert by | |Chechnya. |the federal minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov. A deputy | |23. News media should tell more |mayor of Moscow, Mikhail Men, opened the Chechen festival. | |about the life and work of |Kadyrov took the floor to thank the government of Moscow for | |Chechens in Chechnya and outside|the opportunity to hold a festival that "employs means of art | |as part of Russian fellow |and culture in a bid to show the true face of a gallant and | |citizenship, stop portraying |talented people." The almost four-hour concert featured | |Chechens as proud savages and |presentations by the Popular Artist of the Chechen and Ingush | |show how Chechens normalize the |Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Suleiman Tokayev, the | |life in the republic and fight |Popular Artist of the Chechen Republic Ali Dimayev, young | |the rebels. A special emphasis |artists Ruslan Omayev, Yevgeny Surtayev and Liza Akhmatova and| |should be given to the business |Chechen performing groups. It featured a moving tribute to the| |activity of Chechens living |memory of celebrated Chechen artist Makhmud Esambayev. A | |elsewhere in Russia and support |Popular Artist of Chechnya and Ingushetia Maryam Tashayeva | |for such business on the part of|devoted a song - "My Idol" - to Makhmud Esambayev. And | |authorities of every level. The |photographs and film footage of Esambayev's presentations was,| |opinion of scientists, who spoke|while she sang, shown on a concert hall screen. Then the | |in the course of the conference |audience applauded those who come in the footsteps of that | |Chechnya: From Conflict to |great dancer - the "Ziya" children's dance company and the | |Accord, and the conferences |ten-year-old winner of an international award Mansur Musayev. | |recommendations were included in|The festival of Chechen culture will close on March 17. A | |the government program to |Chechen painting exhibition has also opened in Moscow, and a | |rebuild the Chechen republic and|meeting has been scheduled of Chechen and Moscow-based fiction| |are taken into consideration in |writers and journalists. | |the work of government bodies, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |including in Chechnya. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |historyeng&row=4] in detail ...)| | | | | |Chechen ethnos | | | |Religion in Chechnya | |Chechens as an ethnic group | | | |Paganism and Christianity in Chechnya Chechen Republic: | |Origin of the Chechen people as |official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| history| traditions| | |legend has it |music | | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |At different times forefathers, forebears and ancestors of | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechens and Ingushes (Veinakhs, Nakhs) had different | |traditions| music The Chechen |religious beliefs. Apparently, male and female names Khalad, | |nation originated in Shem |Anu, Ashura, Alalu, Ashtati, Nanna, Diki, Kibela, Nuba-dit, | |Country thousands of years ago. |Aruba and Kuzhukh date back to early paganism, the times of | |They subsequently lived a long |Hurri-Urartu states. Between 3000 and 1000 B.C. the names were| |time in Nakhchuvan wherefrom |used to call various gods. As a rule, every natural phenomenon| |three brothers moved on to |or heavenly body had ts own god. Depending on the nature of | |Kazygman to join their fathers |the wish offerings were made to this or that god, be it the | |relatives living there, |god of sun, rain, war, love or fertility. Religious traditions| |including their uncle. They |are the most lasting ones in the culture of an ethnic group. | |spent 10 years in Kagyzman. |They stay on even after conversion to another faith. In the | |After their youngest brother |Chechen community you can still hear vows such as Tsu dashochu| |died, the two other brothers |malkhor (Swear by golden sun), Tsu lyattor (Swear by earth), | |headed for Erzrum where they |Tsu byapkor (Swear by bread). People pronouncing vows of this | |lived for six years. Another |kind will be deeply hurt if they are told that by doing so | |brother died and the oldest one |they depart from Islam and commit a grave sin. The pagan and | |who remained then spent some |Christian past of ancestors and forefathers of Chechens and | |time with the Khalibs who |Ingushes is reflected in legends, folklore, ancient and | |inhabited the southeastern coast|medieval cultural monuments and archaeological discoveries. | |of the Black Sea. There he lived|The Assinovsky gorge is known to have three Christian temples | |for some time with his wife, |(Tkhaba-Yerda, Albi-Yerda and Targimsky). Similar temples and | |three sons, four daughters and a|churches, according to legends, were also in other parts of | |nephew. The latter subsequently |the mountain chain but Tkhaba-Yerda was the biggest, occupying| |got married and stayed with the |more than 100 square meters. Rich Christian burial places were| |Khalibs, while the eldest bother|discovered under the churchs floor and by its walls. The | |took his family to the banks of |temple, experts say, was built no later than the 10th century | |the river Baksan wherefrom his |A.D. by Georgian architects, who wanted it to be the biggest | |posterity moved north toward |church in Central Caucasus. According to researchers | |what is now the Chechen |(M.B.Muzhukhoev. The Spread of Christianity among Veinakhs), | |republic. The legend mentions a |Tkhaba-Yerda Temple was erected on the site of a heathen | |place called Khalib. There is no|temple devoted to Tkhaba deity. Today the name is etymologized| |such place now but in ancient |on the basis of Nakh languages and is compared to the ancient | |times the Khalibs used to live |pagan deity Tkhya.The process of christianizing Chechens and | |along the southeastern coast of |Ingushes got further development during the reign of the | |the Black Sea Which means that |Georgian Tsarina Tamara. Indications of that were the | |the legend about migration is |appearance of two new churches around Tkhaba-Yerda. | |not just a piece of the Chechen |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |mullahs imagination because the |religioneng&row=1] more...) | |mullahs simply knew nothing | | |about that. |Chechen Language | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion=etneng|The Chechen Language | |&row=2] more...) | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music | | |Chechen, together with Ingush and Bats, belongs to the Veinakh| | |group of the Iberian-Caucasian family of languages. The | | |Chechen and Ingush languages have developed a written | | |tradition. Not so the Bats language. The earliest description | | |of the Veinakh languages is found in the Big Comparative | | |Dictionary of Russian Empress Catherine the Great (second half| | |of the 18th century.) The Dictionary presents about 400 | | |Chechen words and their Ingush and Bats equivalents. Baron | | |P.K. Uslar described the Caucasian languages on instructions | | |from the general staff of the Russian Army. His voluminous | | |"The Chechen Language" came off print in 1888. It contains a | | |grammar of the Chechen language. The languages of the Veinakh | | |group are the widest spoken of the Northern Caucasus. Ethnic | | |Chechens and Ingushis can communicate without a translator. | | |The idea of "veinakh" ("our people") brings them close | | |together. The Bats people live in the Pankisky Gorge of | | |Georgia. Their language has come under a heavy influence of | | |Georgian, which is why neither Chechens nor Ingushi can | | |understand it. The Chechen language is also spoken by the | | |Chechen communities of Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Syria. The | | |Chechen language brings together a number of dialects and | | |tongues. The Chechen language of the written tradition rests | | |on the Grozny dialect of flatland Chechnya. Works of fiction, | | |newspapers and magazines, textbooks and scholarly treatises | | |have been written in that dialect of the Chechen language. | | |Classical fiction writings have been translated into it. It | | |was not until 1925 that written Chechen switched over from the| | |Arabic to the Latin alphabet. In 1938 it gave up Latin for | | |Cyrillic. An unsuccessful attempt to return to the Latin | | |alphabet was made in 1992. As they opened up new frontiers, | | |the Chechens and Ingushis could not help getting in close | | |contact with other ethnic communities. That is why the Chechen| | |word stock as many foreign borrowings: up to 500 words from | | |Georgian, up to 700 words from the Turk languages,a good | | |number of Arabic, Persian, Ossetian and Daghestani words, and | | |a great many words from the Russian language. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |clanguageeng&row=0] in detail ...) | | | | | | | | | | | |## | | | | | |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | | | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | =eng] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com