The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 82 | | | 05.04.03 | |Chechen citizens to get | | |reimbursement for damaged |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |property | | | |Chechen Republic: official site. All about Chechnya| news| | |Chechen citizens may apply for |history|traditions| music 04 April 2003 Drug addiction in | |compensations for property and |Chechnya | |homes lost in the course of the |Chechnyas chief narco-therapist Musa Dalsaev tries to prevent | |Chechen crisis settlement from |people from addicting to narcotics by his daily work. He | |August till November 2003. |assesses the condition of people in the republic as disastrous| |According to RIA Novosti, this |stress. People in this condition addict to alcohol, narcotics | |decision was taken on Friday at |and tranquilizers. War causes mental stress and people feel | |a session with Russian Prime |its consequences many years after the war. This the reason why| |Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. The |doctors consider the situation in the republic as alarming. As| |compensations will be paid out |an expert, Dr. Dalsaev sees specific for the republic the high| |as the applications are |speed of drug addiction. Foe one, people become alcohol | |submitted. The federal bodies of|addicted within few months though usually it takes years. | |power and the republic's |Speaking to a correspondent Dr. Dalsaev said that Chechnya | |government are charged with |spends between 30 and 40 thousand US dollars daily to buy | |determining the payment |narcotics. It is no secret that this illegally earned money. | |procedure. The session also |This means two harmful processes, drug addiction and crime, | |decided to concentrate financial|develop hand in hand. The physicians who launched a campaign | |resources for restoring the |to explain the effect of drug addiction to young people alone | |vital infrastructure within the |cannot protect them. Dr. Dalsaev believes that law enforcement| |framework of the Federal Target |bodies, health care centres, the government departments and | |Programme for restoration of |mass media must together fight against drug addiction. Then | |Chechnya in 2003. The federal |only every member of the society will understand the danger of| |and republican bodies will have |growing drug addiction. Parents bear special responsibility | |to make a list of facilities to |for the health of their children. Childrens rehabilitation | |be restored in the first turn |centre sponsored by the World Health Organization is | |and to submit to the government |functioning in Olympic Proyezd in Grozny and Dr. Dalsaev heads| |their proposals on amending the |it. It gives psychological assistance to children who | |programme. |experience stress and advice parents. Psychologists and | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |psychiatrists train parents how to help their children in home| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |conditions. The centre provide treatments to groups and also | |more...) |individually. The doctors use various means to treat children,| | |including music, arts and sport. The centre provides all | |Head of the Chechen |treatments free of charge and on Saturdays it is open for all | |administration to run for |people who desire to get consultations. | |presidency |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Head of the Chechen | | |administration Akhmad Kadyrov |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |has confirmed his intention to |history| traditions| music 03 April 2003 Zaindi Durdiyev's | |run for presidency in Chechnya. |Novel "Life Continues" | |"I will run for presidency in |The Moscow Voskresenye publishing house published Zaindi | |the forthcoming elections in the|Durdiyev's book which comprises his novel "Life Continues" and| |republic," he said at a press |a series of documentary essays entitled "The Brave and Bold". | |conference in Interfax office on|Zaindi Durdiyev was born in the village of Lakha-Nevre in the | |Friday. When speaking on |Nadtechny region of Chechnya. He is a geologist by profession.| |possible rivals in the |He worked in many regions of the former Soviet Union: in the | |elections, Kadyrov said he "did |Caucasus, in the Far East and in the Arctic."Life Continues" | |not see them". Commenting on the|is his first literary work. The author tells about what he | |sceptical attitude of some |saw, experienced and thought. The action takes place in the | |international organisations to |1930s to the late 1970s. The main hero, geologist Muslim | |the referendum and its results, |Lorsanov, ponders over the heavy plight of the Vainakhs and | |Kadyrov announced he was not too|seeks answers to his questions in history. He pins hopes for a| |anxious about their opinion. |happier future of his ethnic group on education, what he most | |"They should have come and seen |appreciates in people is honour and noble character. Life | |for themselves how the |stories of many heroes in the book remind the reader of | |referendum was conducted," he |historical personalities. Such is the life story of the main | |said. He himself did not expect |hero.When a young man he fell the victim of repressions and | |voters to be so active, Kadyrov |served his sentence in Kolyma. Prominent scientists who | |said. "Forecasts expected 80 |believed in his talent of oil reseacher rescued him. Love of a| |percent of the population [to |local young woman and noble conduct of his friends allowed the| |take part in the referendum], |main hero to go through all hardship and gain freedom. Later | |but the actual turnout was 96 |Muslin becomes a prominent scientist, he forecasts and | |percent," he pointed out. When |prospects rich oil fields. Short documentary essays in the | |commenting on terrorist attack |second part of the book tell about historical personalities | |in Grozny, Kadyrov said that |bold soldiers and talented writers, whose life stories have | |"this was a terrorist attack |become legends. The author knew many of them personally. | |against civilian population, not|Zaindi Durdiyev believes that reading his book will be useful | |against the republic's |for younger generations in Russia, not only Chechens and | |law-enforcement structures." |Russians but also people of other nationalities. It will allow| |"There is no war" in Chechnya, |them to understand better that the Soviet people was unified | |"there are bandits there," he |and lived in a mighty state. All nationalities and ethnic | |emphasised. |groups fought for freedom of their country against common | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |enemies and contributed to consolidate its might. Zaindi | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Durdiyev's novel has already appeared in the author's native | |more...) |land, in Chechnya. He has sent several hundred copies to | | |school libraries and his colleagues, oilmen. | | Chechen history |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| | | |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |To Reader |history| traditions| music 02 April 2003 17 new construction | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |projects in Chechnya sponsored by Russian federal districts | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Administration of the Russian president has requested all | |traditions| music |federal districts of the Russian Federation to contribute to | | |the restoration of the Chechen republic. All seven federal | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |districts gave preliminary agreement to do so. Each of them | |, a Russian territory which has |will build socially important objects in Chechnya at their own| |witnessed the most tragic events|expense. 17 scheduled projects include schools, hospitals and | |over the past decade. The book |social service centers. Central federal district will restore | |is the latest update on the |two schools in Sunzhensky and Shatoysky district. Southern | |Chechen Republic . And this is |district will restore schools in Nozhai-Yurt and Itum-Kalinsky| |very important, since a lack of |districts. Law enforcement units of the Omsk and Krasnoyarsk | |fresh and accurate information |interior departments deployed there will contract local | |about events in Chechnya |construction organizations. Volga district will help to build | |generates many distorted |two schools in Kurchaloi district. Ural district will restore | |conceptions and rumours - both |two schools in Grozny and Vedeno districts. It will fund | |within and outside Russia . For |construction of social services center in Gudermes. North West| |example, that Chechen society is|district will take up construction of three schools in | |allegedly inherently alien to |Urus-Martan and Shalinsky districts. It will also build a | |Russia , that pro-Russian |culture hall. Far East district will repair a school in Vedeno| |elements in the republic are |district. All the construction work is scheduled for this | |marginalised; and lastly, that |year. If the projects are fulfilled as planned, by the | |Russian power structures are |beginning of a new school year, Chechnya will have 14 more | |fighting the Chechen people, |schools that is 4810 more pupils. | |rather than armed bandit groups.|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |The reality, however, is that |(more News from Chechnya) | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |villages and towns being |history| traditions| music' 01 April 2003 Lipetsk region | |restored, children going to |signs an agreement on cooperation with Chechnya | |school for the first time in |It is an initiative by the Russian Presidents envoy to the | |many years, and pensioners |central federal district Georgy Poltavchenko to establish | |receiving long-forgotten |patronage relations between the districts of Chechnya and the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |regions of the federal district. Lately, a delegation from | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Chechnyas Naur district has visited Lipetsk. The two sides | |referendum on a new Chechen |drafted an agreement on cooperation in the restoration of the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen economy and social area and signed it. Speaking to our| |and presidential elections. |correspondent the governor of the Lipetsk region, Oleg Korolev| |These votes will be held, |said that residents in the region consider Chechnya as a part | |despite continued attempts by |of Russia that needs help and were always ready to render | |bandit groups and their leaders |assistance. Although the Lipetsk region is in the far north it| |to scupper the process of |is interested in the establishment of peace and stabilization | |normalisation in the republic, |of the situation in Chechnya. According to Oleg Korolev, the | |the latest terrorist act being |agreement signed with the Naur district is a contribution to | |the bombing of the republican |Russias common affair. When Oleg Korolev was chairman of a | |government building. The war |collective farm cooperated with Chechen construction workers | |being waged by Chechen |and speaks highly of their work and attitude toward people. He| |separatists against federal |believes that many enterprises and banks in the region are | |forces and more often than not |ready to invest money in the reconstruction of Chechnya. This | |against their own co-citizens is|will make it possible to create new jobs, give money to people| |by no means a "national |and inspire confidence on the future. The agreement provides | |liberation struggle of the |for the establishment of direct links with health facilities | |Chechen people", but an episode |in the region and Chechnya and increase of the number of | |in the overall offensive by |Chechen students at the institutes and universities in the | |international terrorism on the |region. It strengthens relations between the two regions of | |fundamental principles of modern|Russia, which, according to Oleg Korolev, have always existed | |civilisation. The facts show |in culture, industrial production and social area. | |that being a part of the Russian|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Federation in no way threatens |(more News from Chechnya) | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | Chechen history | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen |FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |people suffered a humanitarian |WEDDING RACES . Chechen Republic: official site.All about | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Chechnya| news| history| traditions| music | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to |*Long-distance races. It was before sunrise that the competing| |form the economic basis of the |men would meet at an appointed place. The referee, elected by | |new regime, while chaos and war |the villagers, lined them up before signalling them off. The | |became the form of its political|horse riders were to cover a distance of ten to forty miles. | |existence. We want to emphasise |The winners got the first, second and third prizes. | |once more: Chechnya is part of |* Shawl races. Two teams were formed. The horses of one of | |Russia , geographically, |them had shawls put on their backs. The two teams were given | |politically and |time to ride as far away as they possibly could from each | |civilisation-wise. So a |other. Then, the shawlless riders were to gallop after the | |hypothetical triumph of radical |other team. They were to capture the shawls and present their | |Islamism on its territory would |trophies to the referee. | |be anti-historical. Such a |* Helmet and chain-of-mail races were, probably, the most | |development would signify the |difficult kind of racing competitions. One team wore nut-twig | |establishment in the midst of |helmets and chains-of-mail. The pursuers were to capture and | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|put on their garb. If the latter failed to do this, the | |with all ensuing consequences |helmets and chains-of-mail were thrown, as souvenirs, to the | |for the international community.|rooting onlookers. | |The corporate author - |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/chechenhistory.htm] (more about | |journalists of the Russian |chechen history...) | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as| Chechen cuisine | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often asked questions |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |(above all posed by a foreign |traditions| music | |audience) about the Chechen |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Chechnya : Questions and |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Answers". It draws heavily on |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |information provided by various |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Russian ministries and |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |departments that in one or |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |another way are involved in |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |normalising life in the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |republic. |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Russian Information Agency |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Novosti |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |=eng] in detail ...) |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Chechen ethnos |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Chechens as an ethnic group |eng] in detail ...) | | | | |The chechens after the caucasian| | |war | | | |## | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |traditions| music The drawn-out | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Caucasian war left an imprint on| | |the Chechen economy, family and | | |society, Remembering that "all | | |Moslems are brethren," numerous | | |representatives of the ethnic | | |communities of Daghestan and | | |other neighboring regions had | | |moved to live on the fertile | | |land of Chechnya. Up to one | | |third of the Avars, Darghis, | | |Andis, Kumyks, Circassians, | | |Tartars, Kurds and others moved | | |to live in Chechnya. Tsudakhar, | | |Andi, Kumyk, Tartar and other | | |communities have preserved their| | |identity in Chechnya. The | | |Chechens welcomed | | |representatives of other ethnic | | |communities, protected them and | | |rendered them all the necessary | | |aid and assistance. They marked | | |off territory where the | | |newcomers could build their | | |homes. The Chechens and the | | |newcomers enjoyed equal rights | | |in the use of meadowland, | | |community pastures and other | | |vitally important places. They | | |danced on rare occasions now | | |that many families were mourning| | |their dead and everyone felt the| | |economic strain of the war | | |effort. Simplified wedding rites| | |got to take less time. That was | | |a positive development in the | | |life of Chechnya. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion=etneng| | |&row=13] more...) | | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [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