The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 83 | | | 08.04.03 | |Speaker of the Russian State | | |Duma: terrorists not be liable |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |to amnesty in Chechnya | | | |Chechen Republic: official site. All about Chechnya| news| | |Gennady Seleznyov, Speaker of |history|traditions| music 08 April 2003 The "Kazbek" company | |the Russian State Duma (the |is active all over Chechnya | |parliament's lower house) |The Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya is quite familiar with | |believes that those who |the business company "Kazbek." Founded in 1989, this company | |perpetrated terrorist acts in |has been very active since 2000. It has refurbished nine | |Chechnya must not be liable to |schools, raised from ruins four first aid OB/GYN clinics and a| |possible amnesty. "There is no |few dozen houses and is rebuilding more than 200 houses, two | |such thing as amnesty for |schools and a hospital in Nozhai-Yurt, a concert hall and a | |murderers and torturers," the |student dormitory in Grozny and a republican hospital for war | |Duma speaker said in a radio |veterans. It is putting up electricity lines all over Chechnya| |interview on Monday. The |and extending a gas pipeline to the Kurchaloi District. | |possibility of amnesty for |"Kazbek" is a graphic example of the effectiveness of the | |Chechen militants was announced |right way of business management in the most complicated | |before the referendum on |circumstances. It has 127 construction brigades and 762 | |Chechnya's constitution that |employees. As a general contractor, it has signed business | |took place in the republic on |deals with 33 construction companies whose staff tops 400. | |March 23. After the referendum |"Kazbek" lacks nothing from the technical point of view. Its | |President Vladimir Putin |deputy general director Dzhabrail Dakashev says that it has 55| |reaffirmed the amnesty would be |pieces of construction machinery and borrows whatever else it | |declared. The Duma's related |may need from other firms. It buys construction materials in | |committee has started working |Chechnya and other parts of the Russian Federation, in | |out a legal basis for the |particular Daghestan. It has launched enduring relationships | |amnesty, said Mr Seleznyov. |with supplying companies. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |(more News from Chechnya...) | |more...) | | | |08 April 2003 Russia not to continue cooperation with PACE on| |Chechen children's ensemble gave|Chechnya | |concert in Moscow |The Combined Federal Forces' command has decided to close five| | |checkpoints located in Chechnya's plain areas. Lieutenant | |Chechen children's folklore |General Yevgeny Abrashin, Chechnya's military commandant, told| |dance ensemble Lovzar gave |Interfax that "two checkpoints located near the village of | |concert on Monday in Moscow |Koshkeldy in the Gudermes district and near the village of | |Kremlin Palace, Itar-Tass |Gekhi in the Urus-Martan district will be closed within the | |reports. The ensemble was |next few days." "Preparations for their closure have already | |created in 1984 in Grozny and |begun," Abrashin noted. The military commandant stressed that | |has taken part in all major |senior military officials made this decision in count of the | |events in the republic since |fact that the situation in Chechnya has started to normalize, | |then. Its founder Magomed |as well as acting under the Russian president's instruction | |Takhayev, has directed the |calling to optimize checkpoint operations in the republic. "We| |ensemble ever since. Lovzar has |have completely fulfilled the tasks set by the president in | |toured a lot lately in Russia |Grozny," he said, adding that eight checkpoints have been | |and abroad, including in |closed recently in the Chechen capital. Abrashin noted that | |Bulgaria, Turkey, Britain, and |the elimination of checkpoints has made it possible for | |CIS states. It has been awarded |vehicles to travel along the town's two main roads without | |various prizes. Monday's concert|having to make any stops. He noted that this also reduced the | |opens Lovzar's new international|time required to deliver materials to construction sites in | |tour in Western Europe. It will |the republic. "The most important thing is that the lineups of| |include such places as Paris, |vehicles have disappeared and the population has breathed a | |Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, and |sigh of relief," the military commandant stressed. According | |Cannes. The French and German |to him, the elimination of checkpoints has not made the | |tour and the concert in Moscow |situation in Grozny any worse. | |have been supported by UNESCO |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |and the Russian president's |(more News from Chechnya...) | |information department. | | |Presidential aide Sergei |08 April 2003 Another five checkpoints to be closed in | |Yastrzhembsky, who is in charge |Chechnya | |of this department, also |The Combined Federal Forces' command has decided to close five| |attended the concert. |checkpoints located in Chechnya's plain areas. Lieutenant | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |General Yevgeny Abrashin, Chechnya's military commandant, told| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Interfax that "two checkpoints located near the village of | |more...) |Koshkeldy in the Gudermes district and near the village of | | |Gekhi in the Urus-Martan district will be closed within the | | Chechen history |next few days." "Preparations for their closure have already | | |begun," Abrashin noted. The military commandant stressed that | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|senior military officials made this decision in count of the | | |fact that the situation in Chechnya has started to normalize, | |To Reader |as well as acting under the Russian president's instruction | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |calling to optimize checkpoint operations in the republic. "We| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||have completely fulfilled the tasks set by the president in | |traditions| music |Grozny," he said, adding that eight checkpoints have been | | |closed recently in the Chechen capital. Abrashin noted that | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |the elimination of checkpoints has made it possible for | |, a Russian territory which has |vehicles to travel along the town's two main roads without | |witnessed the most tragic events|having to make any stops. He noted that this also reduced the | |over the past decade. The book |time required to deliver materials to construction sites in | |is the latest update on the |the republic. "The most important thing is that the lineups of| |Chechen Republic . And this is |vehicles have disappeared and the population has breathed a | |very important, since a lack of |sigh of relief," the military commandant stressed. According | |fresh and accurate information |to him, the elimination of checkpoints has not made the | |about events in Chechnya |situation in Grozny any worse. | |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|07 April 2003 Explosion near building of the Ministry of the | |allegedly inherently alien to |Press in Grozny | |Russia , that pro-Russian |An explosion took place in the centre of Grozny, some 150 | |elements in the republic are |metres from the building of the Ministry of the Press of the | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Chechen Republic, the press service of the Chechen | |Russian power structures are |administration reported. The spokesman for the press service | |fighting the Chechen people, |said there were no victims, RIA Novosti reports. According to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|the press service of the Chechen administration, the explosion| |The reality, however, is that |roared in the morning, the explosive device had been put under| |only with the return of the |a tree in the heap of broken bricks. Only by a lucky chance | |legitimate authorities are |nobody was killed or injured. On Monday, the printed copies of| |villages and towns being |the republican newspaper, Vesti Respubliki, will be brought to| |restored, children going to |Grozny. This issue carries the text of the constitution of | |school for the first time in |Chechnya, the press service of the Chechen administration | |many years, and pensioners |pointed out. | |receiving long-forgotten |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |(more News from Chechnya) | |is underway. Lying ahead are a | | |referendum on a new Chechen |07 April 2003 Three European ambassadors head for Chechnya | |constitution, and parliamentary |Three European ambassadors, accredited in Moscow, headed for a| |and presidential elections. |three-day trip to Chechnya and Ingushetia on Monday. Greek and| |These votes will be held, |Italian Ambassadors Dimitrios Paraskevopoulos and Facco | |despite continued attempts by |Bonetti and deputy head of the European Commission's office in| |bandit groups and their leaders |Moscow Vincent Picket are taking part in the trip, the office | |to scupper the process of |of the European Commission in Russia told RIA Novosti. At | |normalisation in the republic, |first the diplomats will visit a camp of Chechen refugees in | |the latest terrorist act being |Ingushetia. On Tuesday, the European representatives will meet| |the bombing of the republican |the Chechen authorities, the Chechen prosecutor general and | |government building. The war |the chairman of the local election commission in Grozny, the | |being waged by Chechen |capital of Chechnya. In addition, they are scheduled to visit | |separatists against federal |the staff of Russian troops in Chechnya. | |forces and more often than not |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |against their own co-citizens is|(more News from Chechnya) | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | Chechen history | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern|FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |civilisation. The facts show |WEDDING RACES . Chechen Republic: official site.All about | |that being a part of the Russian|Chechnya| news| history| traditions| music | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|*Long-distance races. It was before sunrise that the competing| |identity, the free use of its |men would meet at an appointed place. The referee, elected by | |own language, and preaching |the villagers, lined them up before signalling them off. The | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |horse riders were to cover a distance of ten to forty miles. | |during de facto "independence" |The winners got the first, second and third prizes. | |from Russia that the Chechen |* Shawl races. Two teams were formed. The horses of one of | |people suffered a humanitarian |them had shawls put on their backs. The two teams were given | |tragedy on an unprecedented |time to ride as far away as they possibly could from each | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|other. Then, the shawlless riders were to gallop after the | |trade and plundering came to |other team. They were to capture the shawls and present their | |form the economic basis of the |trophies to the referee. | |new regime, while chaos and war |* Helmet and chain-of-mail races were, probably, the most | |became the form of its political|difficult kind of racing competitions. One team wore nut-twig | |existence. We want to emphasise |helmets and chains-of-mail. The pursuers were to capture and | |once more: Chechnya is part of |put on their garb. If the latter failed to do this, the | |Russia , geographically, |helmets and chains-of-mail were thrown, as souvenirs, to the | |politically and |rooting onlookers. | |civilisation-wise. So a |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/chechenhistory.htm] (more about | |hypothetical triumph of radical |chechen history...) | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | Chechen cuisine | |development would signify the | | |establishment in the midst of |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|traditions| music | |with all ensuing consequences |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |for the international community.|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |The corporate author - |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |journalists of the Russian |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Information Agency Novosti - |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |have attempted to be as brief as|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |possible on providing answers to|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |the most-often asked questions |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |(above all posed by a foreign |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |audience) about the Chechen |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Chechnya : Questions and |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Answers". It draws heavily on |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |information provided by various |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Russian ministries and |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |departments that in one or |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |another way are involved in |their own. | |normalising life in the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |republic. |eng] in detail ...) | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|## | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Chechen culture | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | | | | |Architecture | | | | | |The Arghun museum and | | |conservation area and its | | |landmarks | | | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music The Arghun | | |state conservation area of | | |special historic and | | |architectural interest, founded | | |in 1988, includes historical, | | |cultural and nature monuments | | |located in the upper | | |Sharo-Arghun and Chanti-Arghun | | |Rivers. It embraces over 150 | | |settlements of several hundreds | | |of living and fortress towers of| | |various states of preservation, | | |some 20 cult buildings, over 150| | |half-underground and | | |above-ground tombs. Experts | | |dates these the period from 10 | | |to 15 centuries AC. Many | | |architectural complexes of the | | |area, including Khoysky, | | |Khimoysky, Pachoksky, Maistinsky| | |and Zhekaloysky, are mountainous| | |tomb settlements of the late | | |Middle Ages. A hundred years ago| | |the Arghun gorge was called a | | |gorge of towers. Three citadels | | |stood at the Shatoi gorges | | |entry. Over hundred towers were | | |situated along the Chanti-Arghun| | |gorge up to the border with | | |Georgia. They were situated in | | |such a way that, standing at a | | |tower, the one could see a fire | | |place in a window or in an | | |arrow-loop of another tower. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |carchitectureeng&row=1] 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