The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 80 | | | 29.03.03 | |Chechnya should restore cities | | |on its own |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Chechnya should restore its |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |housing sector on its own with |history| traditions| music 24 Mart 2003 Chechen athletes to | |financial support from the |take part in all All-Russia championships this year | |federal centre, the Board of the|Chechnya s minister for sport and physical culture Haidar | |State Construction committee was|Alkhanov has said that Chechen athletes would participate more| |told by Chairman Nikolai |vigorously in Russian competitions. The Graeco-Roman wrestling| |Koshman. Bringing over the work |tournament of the Southern federal district among 14 and | |force and construction materials|15-year olds in Mahachkala featured 12 wrestlers from youth | |from other regions was a mistake|sport school in Naurskaya. The Chechen team was led by Arbi | |in the previous restoration |Machuraev. Overall, the event brought together more than 200 | |campaign in Chechnya, Koshman |athletes. S. Usmanov from the Kirov village became champion in| |declared. Chechnya has enough |the most prestigious 87-kg weight. I. Magomadov from Naurskaya| |construction organizations of |stanitsa became bronze-winner in the 35-kg division. Both | |its own, enough construction |booked a spot in the finale of the Russian Graeco-Roman | |workers who can guarantee quite |wrestling championship that starts in Volgograd on April 9. | |decent construction standards, |The Chechen team participated in the youth free-style | |Koshman told Itar-Tass. |wrestling championship of the southern federal district that | |According to preliminary |wound up in Elista. The results showed that Chechen wrestlers | |estimates, restoration in Grozny|are yet unable to square up to athletes from Dagestan and | |and settlements on the |North Osetia. The Chechen team did not win any medals. | |right-hand bank might take no |However, six Chechen athletes will take part in the finale of | |less than five years, Koshman |the Russian championship that will take place early in April | |said. A plan of the city |in St. Petersburg. More than 150 sambo fighters from 15 cities| |restoration presented to the |of Russias 4 federal districts took part in the third | |Board of the construction |championship among 10 to 14-year olds that was held in St. | |committee by an expert of a |Petersburg in commemoration of the paratroopers of the 6th | |Moscow construction research |expeditionary force company killed in Chechnya . Chechnya was | |institute envisages re-location |represented by 5 athletes. Its team was led by H. Abdulaziev | |of an administrative centre in |from youth sport school in Argun and Z. Ahmadov from profile | |Grozny, enlargement of a green |sport school of the Olympic reserve. The wrestlers competed in| |zone and construction of two |two weight groups, 13-14 year olds and 12-10 year olds. Four | |traffic rings around the city. |Chechen athletes featured in the first group and one in the | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |second. All five won medals. 32 kg H. Ahmadov from Argun and | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |72 kg I. Islamov from Argun too became gold-winners. 38 kg H. | |more...) |Jabrailov from the settlement of Aldy competed among 12-10 | | |year olds. Losing three points to hosting fighter in the final| |More than 20 bandits committed |bout, he accomplished a four-point throw seconds before the | |crimes in the guise of Russian |end and took the title. There is also one silver and one | |soldiers arrested in Chechnya |bronze medal in Chechnya s tally. Silver-winner A. Ayubov from| | |Argun was declared best wrestler of the tournament. The trip | |More than 20 members of bandit |of the Chechen athletes was funded by the Chechen youth | |units, who committed crimes in |affairs committee. Gudermes hosted the Chechen heavy athletics| |the guise of servicemen of the |championship. There are about 10 heavy athletics training | |federal forces, were arrested in|groups now in the republic. In recent years, they prepared | |Chechnya over the past 5 months,|several Russian champions and medal winners of European | |Russia's deputy |tournaments. The present Chechen championship featured two | |Prosecutor-General Sergei |Russian masters of sport and several candidate-masters. On | |Fridinsky said. According to RIA|teams standings, heavy lifters of the Grozny rural district | |Novosti, among the arrestees |left others behind. Pupils of K. Magomadov from the Berdekel | |were two criminals who had |village grabbed the bulk of medals. They were followed by | |kidnapped Kenneth Gluck of |athletes from Urus-Martan and Gudermes. | |Doctors without Borders, he |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |said. While committing their |(more News from Chechnya) | |crimes, militants disguised as | | |Russian servicemen spoke |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Russian, introduced themselves |history| traditions| music' 25 Mart 2003 Education minister | |as Russian special services' |visited Chechnya | |agents, and asked people for |Chechnya will receive every assistance to restore its | |documentd as though they were |educational system. Thats the promise given by Russia s | |checking passports, Fridinsky |education minister Vladimir Philipov who during his first | |narrated. It was in this manner |visit to Chechnya took part in the meeting of the republics | |that they kidnapped and killed |education ministry held on March 12 in the regional center | |Chechen mufti Gichikayev in |Znamenskaya. Addressing education ministrys workers Mr. | |December 2002. According to |Philipov declared that education is now within the reach of | |Fridinsky, militants disguised |all Chechens : 450 schools with a pupils enrolment of 200 | |as Russian soldiers committed |thousands are functioning in Chechnya . He promised that | |around 80 crimes against Chechen|before the end of the academic year 100 volumes of artistic | |civilians and servicemen of the |classical literature will be sent to all the schools. Schools | |federal forces. |will also be supplied with sporting equipment and computers. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |According to minister Philipov Chechen teachers have suggested| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |that Russian language should be the medium of instruction in | |more...) |republican schools while Chechen language should be a | | |compulsory subject. That proposal has been included in the | | Chechen history |draft of the law on education for Chechnya drawn up by Chechen| | |teachers and scientists.. That law will come into force on | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|September 1 2003. Education minister Philipov says that much | | |attention is being given to the development of a network of | |To Reader |pre-school institutions in Chechnya Currently kindergartens | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |are attended by 5 per cent of Chechen children. 500 thousand | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||dollars will be spent to develop pre-school education in the | |traditions| music |republic, minister Philipov disclosed revealing however that | | |in the last 7 to 8 years young Chechens aged 17 to 25 years | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |had not received professional training . For them the | |, a Russian territory which has |so-called resource centers on the basis of professional | |witnessed the most tragic events|specialized schools and technical secondary schools have been | |over the past decade. The book |established. Young people can receive general education and | |is the latest update on the |other professions in such centers. Vladimir Philipov said that| |Chechen Republic . And this is |in 3 years the Chechen education ministry has done a lot of | |very important, since a lack of |work and the credit for that must go to the teachers. He | |fresh and accurate information |decorated a number of education workers with merited education| |about events in Chechnya |worker medal. | |generates many distorted |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |conceptions and rumours - both |(more News from Chechnya) | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is|Chechen Republic: official site. All about Chechnya| news| | |allegedly inherently alien to |history|traditions| music 26 Mart 2003 Chechen prosecutors | |Russia , that pro-Russian |office is 3 years old | |elements in the republic are |Vladimir Kravchenko legal adviser class 3 is the prosecutor | |marginalised; and lastly, that |general of Chechnya. At the present time there are 15 | |Russian power structures are |prosecutors offices in Chechnya manned by 263 legal officers | |fighting the Chechen people, |out of whom 112 are Chechens. In 3 years of work 9 officers | |rather than armed bandit groups.|have died performing their official duty but despite all the | |The reality, however, is that |difficulties prosecutors continue to serve conscientiously and| |only with the return of the |selflessly. Last year alone they opened investigations into | |legitimate authorities are |more than 3 thousand criminal cases out of which 2315 have | |villages and towns being |been completed and sent to the courts for listing and hearing.| |restored, children going to |A few days ago Chechen prosecutor general Kravchenko again | |school for the first time in |called on members of illegal armed units to lay down their | |many years, and pensioners |arms and go back to a peaceful life. I am ready to guarantee | |receiving long-forgotten |security to all those who lay down their weapons, Mr. | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Kravchenko said . Last year 66 militants laid down weapons and| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |all of them were allowed to go free after appropriate | |referendum on a new Chechen |investigations. The establishment in 2002 of district military| |constitution, and parliamentary |prosecutors offices has helped to a large extent in improving | |and presidential elections. |the state of law and order in Chechnya. Five military | |These votes will be held, |prosecutor offices are currently functioning in Khankale, | |despite continued attempts by |Shali, Borzoi and Itum-Kale. Participation by employees of | |bandit groups and their leaders |military prosecutors office in all anti-terrorist operations | |to scupper the process of |is mandatory. Starting from the autumn of 1999 50 Russian | |normalisation in the republic, |servicemen have been prosecuted by military courts for crimes | |the latest terrorist act being |against local inhabitants and in 2002 19 criminal | |the bombing of the republican |investigations were launched. | |government building. The war |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |being waged by Chechen |(more News from Chechnya...) | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |against their own co-citizens is|history| traditions| music 27 Mart 2003 K. Ibrahimov: Russian| |by no means a "national |intellectuals | |liberation struggle of the |The gathering of Chechen and Moscow writers in the Russian | |Chechen people", but an episode |capital brought to a close the festival of Chechen culture. In| |in the overall offensive by |the hall of the international community of writers union poets| |international terrorism on the |and prose writers talked about common problems, remembered | |fundamental principles of modern|friends and read their works. The Chechen writer and | |civilisation. The facts show |playwright Sayid-Hamzat Nunyev chaired the gathering. Chechen | |that being a part of the Russian|guests heard a lot of pleasant words said about them. The well| |Federation in no way threatens |known poetess Lyudmila Shipahina spoke about her friendship | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|with Raisa Ahmatova. Chechens believe in eternal friendship, | |identity, the free use of its |she said and her response ended with a poem which was | |own language, and preaching |concluded like this: | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen | "Old dignities not dropping, | |people suffered a humanitarian | In heavens guilt not measuring, | |tragedy on an unprecedented | Chechnya my sister, | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| Lets embrace in tears." | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war |At the evening get together poet Valentine Sorokin who in his | |became the form of its political|youth worked with Chechens in the Kazakh metallurgical works | |existence. We want to emphasise |remembered his old friends. Those were the years of the | |once more: Chechnya is part of |deportation of Chechens and recalling those years poet Sorokin| |Russia , geographically, |emphasized that Russians were also exiled then, put behind | |politically and |bars and shot. We should not blame each other but rather help | |civilisation-wise. So a |and understand, he advised. | |hypothetical triumph of radical |The old generation of writers present at the evening of | |Islamism on its territory would |socials warmly greeted young Chechen writers who started their| |be anti-historical. Such a |creative efforts at a most difficult period for their | |development would signify the |republic. Among the Chechen writers were Kanta Ibrahimov | |establishment in the midst of |author of 2 novels received with interest by Russian readers. | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|Mr. Ibrahim was recently admitted to the Russian union of | |with all ensuing consequences |writers. Speaking at the gathering he declared that Russian | |for the international community.|literature has always been a school of creativity for Chechen | |The corporate author - |writers saying that Russian intellectuals have always | |journalists of the Russian |understood the Chechen people. | |Information Agency Novosti - |The up and coming Chechen writer Zaindi Durdiyev presented his| |have attempted to be as brief as|first novel Life continues and an essay Strong and brave at | |possible on providing answers to|the evening get together. Poets Oleg Shestinsky from Moscow | |the most-often asked questions |and Hizar Ahmadov from Grozny , poetess from Kazakhstan | |(above all posed by a foreign |Gursunai Orzabekova , Tatar writer Rinat Muhamadiyev, literary| |audience) about the Chechen |critic from Dagestan Svetlana Aliyeva and a philology scholar | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|from Chechnya Mariam Vahidova all spoke at the gathering in | |Chechnya : Questions and |the hall of the international community of writers union. | |Answers". It draws heavily on |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |information provided by various |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the | Chechen history | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency |Chechens one the worlds most ancient people Chechen Republic: | |Novosti |official site.All about Chechnya| news| history| traditions| | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |music | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) |Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi) are the worlds most | | |ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. | |Chechen ethnos |They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more | | |than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are | |Chechens as an ethnic group |very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they | | |form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, | |Back to the flatland |territorial, economic and cultural links and language. | | |Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) | |traditions| music In the 15th |ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various| |century, highland Chechens |aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was | |started building villages on the|formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements | |outskirts of the Nakh kingdom of|of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence | |Simsim (Simsir.) The Chechens |of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. | |were then locked up in fierce |The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing | |fighting with the Horde-backed |struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies,| |Kumyk, Noghai and Kabardian |in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new| |Princes and Khans who used as |attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages | |their own the flatland fields |(4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend | |and pastures the Chechens had |themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab | |been forced to cede to the |Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle | |nomads.What is known as the |forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation| |heroic Illi - epic legends and |for their statehood. | |ballads - date back to that |Early class states on the territory of Chechnya and Daghestan | |period. Farming and livestock |A state structure of early class type known as Serir kingdom | |breeding reach a qualitatively |existed in the mountains of Chechnya and Daghestan in the | |new level. The Chechens get to |4th-12th centuries; and the Alan multi-ethnic early feudal | |know more about metals and start|state was formed on the plains and foothills of the North | |manufacturing household utensils|Caucasus.The steppes of present-day Chechnya were part of the | |and weaponry of copper, zinc and|Khazar Kaganate. | |silver, as well as iron. Village|So, in the early Middle Ages Vainakh tribes together with | |artisans work wonders. Weapons, |kindred peoples of the Caucasus attempted to create their own | |jewelry, various kinds of |statehood.The ancestors of Chechen people took an active part | |household utensils are made for |in the political life of medieval Georgia, Serir, Alania, | |sale. Oral and literary sources |Khazaria. | |make mention of streets and even|The difficult process of the formation of the Chechen nation | |villages populated entirely by |In the 13th 14th centuries Chechens were forced to retreat to | |blacksmiths, gunsmiths, makers, |the mountains by the Tatar-Mongols. In the late 14th century | |jewelers.Things manufactured in |Tamerlanes troops defeated Semsim state that existed on the | |that period have been found all |territory of Chechnya, after which Chechens suffered a long | |over Chechnya and Ingushetia. |period of decline. The physical, material and cultural losses | |Remnants of potmakers' ovens, |of the Vainakh people after the invasion of Tamerlane were so | |smithies and artisans' shops |great that the historical link of times and cultures was once | |date to the Middle Ages. The |again broken. After the fall of the Golden Horde Chechens | |potmaker's oven found near the |gradually descended from the mountains and colonized the | |village of Duba Yurt has been |Chechen plain anew. | |almost undamaged by time. It was|By that time Chechens knew only too well what the yoke of | |made in the 13th, if not 11th, |foreign conquerors and their own feudal lords was like and | |century. Certain cross sections |rejected serfdom as incompatible with the whole of their | |of society could read and write.|previous history. In most of Chechnya they revived their | |The Nakh tribes, larger |traditional lifestyle on a qualitatively new level setting up | |communities and khanates |free communities, where personal freedom became a value in | |maintained diplomatic |itself but was limited by democratic and strict common law | |correspondence with neighboring |known as Adat. Since then belonging to tribal or feudal | |nations, like Georgia. |aristocracy was not enough for power to become hereditary. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Individualism, cult of freedom and democracy were developed so| |index.php?lng=eng§ion=etneng|strongly among the Vainakhs that at a certain stage they | |&row=12] more...) |turned against the people themselves and began to hamper the | | |process of the formation of the Chechen people. It was not | | |accidental , that Chechen communities were at war with one | | |another, and for fear of the elevation of people in their own | | |midst that would create a precedent of power being hereditary,| | |they chose rulers from representatives of either Kumyk or | | |Kabardin dynasties, which, if need be, were easy to get rid of| | |(which they did). Tribal Chechnya was afraid of elevating | | |representatives of any of the Chechen clans. Hence they | | |invited an impartial foreign prince (and the consequences of | | |the baneful tradition are still making themselves felt). | | |Tribes and communities of highlanders all over the world live | | |in big isolation and are notable for their independence and | | |bellicosity. Slavery and serfdom are alien to mountain | | |communities, where every man is a warrior. Feudal lords were | | |able to spread their power on separate areas only and holding | | |it was possible only when there was voluntary support from | | |free and belligerent people. In the mountains family and | | |tribal interests often prevailed over the national interests, | | |so it was difficult to build a stable state structure there. | | |The Chechen community has always been a sort of non-state | | |ethocratic one (in Greek etos means customs). Chechens had a | | |tradition of holding peoples meetings, at which temporary | | |warlords and community chiefs were elected but Vainakhs never | | |had a tsar. For them the problem of consolidation was always a| | |pressing one. Officer of the Russian Imperial Army Umalat | | |Laudaev, a Chechen by origin, wrote in 1872 that a Chechen | | |tribe consisting of numerous families that had quarreled with | | |one another from time immemorial unanimity was alien. Hence | | |residents of Nazran were irreconcilable enemies of Chechens | | |living on the lowlands and on the Terek River; they robbed and| | |killed one another; residents of Shatoi attacked those of the | | |right bank of the Terek River, who responded by kidnapping | | |Shatoi people and selling them into slavery to west Caucasus. | | |Aukhs are closer to Kumyks and Nazranites to Ossetians and | | |Kabardins rather than to their Chechen fellow tribesmen. This | | |absence of unanimity on the part of Chechen communities | | |reduced to minimum the political importance of the country | | |they live in. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |historyeng&row=1] (more...) | | | | | | Chechen cuisine | | | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music | | |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | | |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | | |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | | |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | | |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | | |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| | |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | | |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | | |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | | |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | | |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | | |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | | |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | | |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | | |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | | |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| | |eng] 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