The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 84 | | | 11.04.03 | |Chechnya almost free of rebels | | | |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |"Chechnya is effectively free of| | |rebels. Only bandits who have |11 April 2003 Some of gang members killed in Chechnya were | |nothing to do with the armed |arabs | |fight in the name of separatism |Arab mercenaries were among the members of the gang recently | |remain," the republic's Deputy |eliminated in Chechnya's Shatoisky district, the press service| |Interior Minister Sultan Satuyev|of the United Group of Troops told RIA Novosti. According to a| |told Interfax. The official has |Group representative, the police have recently managed to | |estimated the number of rebel |identify one of the killed bandits who came from some Arab | |group members still at large at |country. The bandit's name is kept secret in the interests of | |1,500-2,000. He said that these |the investigation. All the killed bandits were dressed in | |people are not receiving any |foreign camouflaged uniforms. A large-calibre machine-gun, a | |financial assistance from |grenade discharger, 7 submachine guns, many hand grenades and | |abroad. "They have neither |several thousand cartridges were found at the site of the | |forces nor the capacity to |incident, the press service pointed out. During a recent | |conduct any intensive |special operation in the Shatoisky district, near the Zona | |hostilities," Satuyev noted. |settlement, intelligence officers from the Russian Defence | |Commenting on the possible |Ministry eliminated a 7-strong bandit group. None of the | |whereabouts of Chechen |intelligence officers was hit. | |separatist leader Aslan |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Maskhadov, Satuyev said that "he|(more News from Chechnya) | |is most likely in the republic."| | |"I am confident that we will |11 April 2003 About 1,500 Chechen separatists lay down arms | |eventually catch him," he said. |voluntarily | |The deputy minister said that |According to the Chechen Interior Ministry, about 1,500 | |Maskhadov "is seeking |Chechen separatists have laid down arms voluntarily and | |rehabilitation. He wants to be |surrendered to the federal forces, Chechnya's Deputy Interior | |amnestied." "Some people want |Minister Sultan Satuyev said at a press conference in Grozny, | |Maskhadov alive, others dead, |RIA Novosti reports. According to him, recently "about 1,500 | |but all of them seem to be |thousand militants laid down arms voluntarily" in the | |providing cover for him," he |republic. We know, that most of illegal armed units "have | |said. |realised their fighting is hopeless and are ready to | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |surrender," Satuyev said. At present "about 1,500-2,000 armed | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |criminals operate in the republic on their own," Satuyev | |more...) |added. Besides, separatist mastermind Aslan Maskhadov is | | |currently in Chechnya "seeking amnesty be all means," Satuyev | |Chechnya's Prime Minister: |said. "If they meet Maskhadov face to face, Chechen policemen | |Situation is better after |will arrest him," Satuyev concluded. | |referendum |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya) | |The March 23 constitutional | | |referendum in Chechnya has |Chechen Republic: official site. All about Chechnya| news| | |noticeably stabilized the |history|traditions| music 11 April 2003 Doctors from all | |situation in the republic, |across Russia work side by side with Chechen colleagues | |Chechnya's Prime Minister |Volunteer doctors from many Russian regions including Moscow | |Anatoly Popov told Itar-Tass in |are working now side by side with local doctors in Chechen | |Nalchik on Friday. "Grozny |hospitals. Late in March, a big group of top Moscow | |streets remain very busy in the |pediatricians, children surgeons and gynaecologists returned | |evenings, in contrast to a |from Grozny. The Chechen healthcare system is so far focused | |situation of several months ago.|on providing first aid. Local doctors just have no time to | |Extensive construction work is |treat chronic patients and take prophylactic measures. And | |in progress and farms are being |there is lack of doctors in Chechnya. The Russian healthcare | |restored with assistance from |ministry has decided to expand specialized aid to chronic | |the federal authorities. The |patients in hospitals of neighboring North Caucasian regions. | |sowing season is at its peak. |Leading Moscow-based clinics will receive Chechen doctors for | |This year's grain crop will be |post-diploma specialization. Children will be at the focus. | |better than last year's," Popov |Moscow hospitals are now accepting up to 500 kids from | |said. Industrial enterprises are|Chechnya and Ingushetia a year. The take treatment in the | |being commissioned and jobs |Russian children clinical hospital, the Moscow pediatrics and | |created under a targeted federal|children surgery research institute and the 9th city children | |program. As a new live is |hospital. Head physician of the 9th hospital Petr Paradeus has| |breathed into local industries, |been to Chechnya himself and worked in a field pediatric | |incentives are created for |hospital in Gudermes. The work of the hospital was very | |skilled specialists to return to|efficient as it performed not only medical function but social| |Chechnya. Government grants are |one as well. This hospital is closed down now and its | |paid to 400,000 children under |equipment is being handed over to another hospital in | |age and to 150,000 jobless. |Gudermes. There is much of work in store for Russian doctors | |Another 200,000 receive |in Chechnya. Implementation of the Russian healthcare ministry| |pensions. The residents of |program to provide Chechen children and women with medical aid| |Chechnya are entitled to the |will be monitored by a permanent ministry envoy in Grozny. | |same benefits as all other |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russian citizens. "The |(more News from Chechnya...) | |referendum has started a new | | |chapter in Chechnya's recent, |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |peaceful history," Popov said. |history| traditions| music 10 April 2003 The Number of | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Check-Points in Chechnya Is Being Reduced | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |By the end of this year over 20 check-points will be | |more...) |liquidated in the towns and villages of Chechnya.The command | | |of allied troops has also taken a decision to dismantle five | | Chechen history |check-points in several regions in the plain part of the | | |republic, including a check-point near the Koshkeldy village | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|in the Gudermes region and another one in the vicinity of the | | |village of Gekhi in the Urus-Martan region. This has been | |To Reader |reported by the military commandant of Chechnya | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Lieutenant-General Yevgeny Abrashin. In the Chechen capital 8 | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||check-points have been recently liquidated which allowed | |traditions| music |non-stop movement on the city's most important highways. | | |Nonetheless, an aide to the Chief Commander of the Russian | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |Interior Troops Vasily Panchenkov believes that Chechnya still| |, a Russian territory which has |needs check-points since they help the residents to return | |witnessed the most tragic events|life in the republic to normal. During check-ups at | |over the past decade. The book |check-points dozens of cars have been detained earlier | |is the latest update on the |hijacked in various regions of Russia,hundreds upon hundreds | |Chechen Republic . And this is |of small arms have been confiscated as well as many tonnes of | |very important, since a lack of |oil and oil products being smuggled from the republic. During | |fresh and accurate information |check-ups members of illegal armed groups were detained who | |about events in Chechnya |did not want to surrender arms. The process of stage-by-stage | |generates many distorted |liquidation of check-points was initiated by president | |conceptions and rumours - both |Vladimir Putin. | |within and outside Russia . For |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |example, that Chechen society is|(more News from Chechnya...) | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |elements in the republic are |history| traditions| music 09 April 2003 Time to think of | |marginalised; and lastly, that |health | |Russian power structures are |The right to live is an unalienable right of every human | |fighting the Chechen people, |being. High quality health care offers guarantees for the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|realization of this right. Much has been done in this field in| |The reality, however, is that |Chechnya. As many as 16 out-patient clinics and 60 hospitals | |only with the return of the |are functioning in Chechnya, 90% of Chechens can receive first| |legitimate authorities are |medical aid. Medical prevention centers, first aid stations | |villages and towns being |and the central hospitals of administrative districts are open| |restored, children going to |around the clock. Several hospitals, with a total of 5500 | |school for the first time in |beds, opened in Chechnya in 2002. Having more than 2,000 | |many years, and pensioners |doctors and 12,000 other health care workers, Chechnya meets | |receiving long-forgotten |only 40% of its actual demand for medical personnel. Little by| |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |little, this problem will be solved. The medical school of | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Grozny is training 650 nurses, the University of Grozny has | |referendum on a new Chechen |opened a department of medicine. Leading medical colleges of | |constitution, and parliamentary |the Russian Federation will train 125 doctors for Chechnya. | |and presidential elections. |The Chechen reconstruction effort calls for the revival of the| |These votes will be held, |Chechen system of health care. The health care ministry of the| |despite continued attempts by |Russian Federation has drawn up a two-year program for the | |bandit groups and their leaders |development of the Chechen health care system. | |to scupper the process of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |normalisation in the republic, |(more News from Chechnya) | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen history | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |against their own co-citizens is|Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |by no means a "national |history| traditions| music | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode |The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |in the overall offensive by |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |international terrorism on the |stages. | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show |The first stage | |that being a part of the Russian|The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |Federation in no way threatens |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |identity, the free use of its |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |own language, and preaching |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |during de facto "independence" |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |from Russia that the Chechen |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |people suffered a humanitarian |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |tragedy on an unprecedented |The second stage | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |trade and plundering came to |century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |form the economic basis of the |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |new regime, while chaos and war |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |became the form of its political|prevalent. | |existence. We want to emphasise |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |once more: Chechnya is part of |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |Russia , geographically, |Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |politically and |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |civilisation-wise. So a |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |hypothetical triumph of radical |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |Islamism on its territory would |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |be anti-historical. Such a |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |development would signify the |he failed to do so. | |establishment in the midst of |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |with all ensuing consequences |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |for the international community.|at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |The corporate author - |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |journalists of the Russian |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |Information Agency Novosti - |afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |have attempted to be as brief as|movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |possible on providing answers to|Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |the most-often asked questions |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |(above all posed by a foreign |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |audience) about the Chechen |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|The third stage | |Chechnya : Questions and |The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |Answers". It draws heavily on |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | |information provided by various |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | |Russian ministries and |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | |departments that in one or |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | |another way are involved in |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | |normalising life in the |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | |republic. |time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| |Russian Information Agency |an attempt to unite mountain people too by concluding an | |Novosti |alliance between free Chechnya and feudal principalities of | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the North Caucasus. Beibulat Taimiev called for a peaceful | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|solution to the conflict and wanted to avoid a big war with | |=eng] in detail ...) |Russia. His treacherous murder led to the escalation of | | |military operations. | |Chechen culture |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |historyeng&row=2] (more about chechen history...) | |Literature | | | | Chechen cuisine | |Folklore. Proverbs and sayings | | |CHECHEN EPICS |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |traditions| music Myths reveal |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |the caveman's view of life. Such|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |stories as "The Mother Of |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Snowstorms" and "How A Sinner |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Brought To Earth The Hog And The|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Sow" reveal the Chechens' |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |earliest views of the morals and|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |morality, praise kindness and |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |condemn greed. Myths of a later |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |period focus on the standoff |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |between Man and Nature. Man is |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |capable of gaining the upper |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |hand in this battle and he is |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |anxious to learn the secrets of |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Mother Nature. The final stage |their own. | |of the tribal system and the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |subsequent period of "military |eng] in detail ...) | |democracy" reveal an interest in| | |human character. Myths mould the| | |image of an ideal hero. The | | |Chechen version of the myth |## | |about Prometheus portrays a man | | |who gives up his life for the |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |happiness of his people. It is, | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |then, in times immemorial that | | |the Chechens moulded the image | | |of a socially important | | |character. The Nart legends and,| | |even later, heroic songs updated| | |the moral values of the Chechen | | |myths and fairy tales. The Nart | | |epics of the 2nd century B.C. | | |occupy the central place in the | | |folklore of many a North | | |Caucasian nation. But the | | |Chechen-Ingush vein in the Nart | | |epics sounds special. The Narts | | |are usually portrayed as | | |hard-working and highly virtuous| | |giants who help people. But the | | |Chechen and Ingush myths focus | | |on the standoff between the | | |Narts and the bravest of men. | | |The stubborn struggle against | | |the Narts leads to national | | |consolidation: the Nart epics | | |relate to a new stage in the | | |Chechen cultural tradition. | | |Their heroes protect the weak, | | |they act in the interests of | | |society. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |cliteratureeng&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&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com