The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 85 | | | 16.04.03 | |The Western European tour of | | |Lovzar promises to make a |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |sensation | | | |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |The Western European tour of the|history| traditions| music' 16 April 2003 Housing is built | |Chechen youth ensemble of folk |and jobs created in Grozny | |dance Lovzar promises to make a |The Chechen Republics capital has been gradually getting back | |sensation. The tour of the |to normal, with housing and public services rebuilt, and | |young, but already prominent |streets improved. Grozny residents have been increasingly more| |artists starts on Wednesday with|often pointing out that their city used to be one of the | |the performance at the Pierre |Soviet Unions most comfortable cities to live in. 25% of | |Cardin Theatre on Champs |Chechnyas able-bodied population are busy working on | |d'Elysee - one of the notorious |construction sites in Grozny today. In all, 25,000 Grozny | |stages in the French capital. |residents have jobs, which is 9% more than last year. The city| |The ensemble, conducted by |administration has sweeping plans to carry out. They want to | |Magomed Takhayev, will perform |create some 15,000 new jobs and provide at least 2,500 | |for the Western European |families with housing. 1 billion roubles have been allocated | |spectators a lambent program |for restoring municipal and private housing this year. Efforts| |"Caucasian Dances". Four dozens |are now made to provide for design plans and specification and| |of dancers and orchestra |cost estimates. Grozny played host to a meeting of Russian | |players, with the youngest |Construction Agency officials to analyze at length the way the| |14-year-old participant, intend |contractors performed last year. The meeting took the decision| |to impress the pampered Paris |to reduce the number of prime contractors from 21 to 10 and | |spectators with lambent and |re-distribute the volume of work and construction projects | |lyrical dances of mountain |among them. The main contractor, - the Federal Directorate for| |people. The Lovzar ensemble, |Construction and Restoration in Chechnya, has cancelled | |which means on Chechen "games |contracts of those who invariably fell behind schedule. The | |and fun", was formed in 1984. |Directorates acting general director Mikhail Fadeyev says that| |The present ensemble won a |they will be turning over housing for occupancy steadily, with| |number of Russian and |no rush work involved. The Chechen capital is built and | |international musical contests |rebuilt strictly in keeping with the general layout that was | |and festivals, participated in |offered by the design institute Giprogor and approved by the | |charity events and in a number |Russian Construction Agency board in late March this year. | |of foreign tours, which brought |Under the plan, it is mostly blocks of flats of only a few | |the ensemble a deserved |storeys that will be built in Grozny because of the regions | |acknowledgement and audience's |high seismic activity. The general layout provides for | |acclaim. Shortly before the |building 800,000 square metres of housing in the central part | |arrival to France, where Lovzar |of Grozny. The plan authors also thought of improving the city| |would perform for the first |environment, so gardens will account for a much larger city | |time, the ensemble gave a |area, while environment-unfriendly enterprises will be pushed | |concert on stage of the Kremlin |out of the city. | |Palace in Moscow. The tour is |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |held under the aegis of UNESCO. |(more News from Chechnya) | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |16 April 2003 Head of a gang responsible for explosions in | |more...) |Grozny killed | | |Ruslan Edilov, the head of a gang that is responsible for the | |Russian president's envoy denies|explosion of a bus carrying builders on April 7th and a Niva | |western reports about mass |car filled with Chechen security officers on April 7th, was | |killings in Chechnya |killed when offering resistance during a raid on his gang. | | |According to RIA Novosti, one fighter has been arrested. The | |The Russian president's human |scene of action has proved to be a cache of quite an arsenal | |rights envoy to Chechnya, |of weapons, ammunition and explosives, including home-made | |Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, has |grenade-launchers, land mines, devices for noiseless shooting,| |called reports from Western |over three kilos of trotyl and ten radio stations. The bus | |media and human rights' |blast on April 4th on Sadovaya Street in Grozny killed eight | |activists about mass killings in|and injured 14 local residents who were engaged in | |the republic a provocation act. |rehabilitating destroyed buildings. Five security service | |"This is a planned action that |officers were killed in the land mine blast on April 7. | |concerns a new stage in the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |information stand-off, aimed at |(more News from Chechnya) | |discrediting the referendum and | | |the judicial system in Chechnya |15 April 2003 UN humanitarian mission arrived in Chechnya | |and at thwarting the amnesty," |The UN humanitarian mission arrived in Chechnya on Tuesday, | |he told Interfax. The envoy |RIA Novosti reports. The Chechen administration said that the | |feels that in this way, European|UN mission consisted of representatives of the UN World Food | |politicians are trying to |Programme, the World Health Organisation, representatives of | |justify an initiative brought by|the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN| |Rudolf Bindig, a representative |Deputy Humanitarian Co-ordinator. The UN delegation was | |of PACE's judicial committee, to|received by Chairman of the Chechen Administration Anatoly | |set up an international crimes |Popov. Secretary of the Chechen Security Council Rudnik | |tribunal in Chechnya. Sultygov |Dudayev, First Deputy Chairman of the Chechen Administration | |has denied assertions that the |Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov and Health Minister Musa Akhmadov | |Chechen administration has a |participated in the meeting. The social, political and | |classified document alleging |humanitarian issues as well as human rights protection and the| |mass civilian casualties in the |life of refugees were discussed at the meeting. | |republic. "This is a decoy," the|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |envoy said. He lashed out |(more News from Chechnya...) | |against the Human Rights Watch | | |for claiming alleged involvement|Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |of federal forces in mass crimes|history| traditions| music 15 April 2003 Successes On Path | |against civilians. "Rather than |Towards Knowledge | |a human rights' organization, it|According to Russian Education Minister Vladimir Filippov who | |is an extremist organization, |visited Chechnya last month the republic has reached | |spreading totalitarian notions |considerable successes in the education system development. | |about Europe's democratic |Over the two years the number of schoolchildren and students | |values," said Sultygov. He |has increased by 6 times and the level of school teaching | |described the rally held by |meets Russia's national standards. Chechen Education Minister | |human rights' campaigners in |Lema Dadaev says 80 per cent of the schoolchildren are | |downtown Moscow last Saturday as|supplied with textbooks and the schools staffed with teachers | |"a link in the same chain of |virtually in full. The Moscow Academy of Training Teachers and| |provocation acts." "However, |Chechen Pedagogical Institute help teachers raise their | |this is the people's right to |professional level. Until the end of the year 300 of 390 | |protest against a war in |secondary schools in Chechnya will gain as many as 900 sets of| |Chechnya that was stopped |equipment for classes of chemistry, physic and biology. The | |already long ago by the Chechen |sets cost 10 million rubles allocated from the federal budget.| |people," said Sultygov. |The school libraries are also being replenished. A 100-volume | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |set of Russian classical writings has been granted by Russia's| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Higher Education Ministry to be distributed among schools. A | |more...) |little time is left before the end of the academic year. | | |Chechen Government's Chairman Anatoly Popov has asked Russia's| | Chechen history |Education Ministry to provide Chechen graduates with 500 | | |places in institutes of higher education and colleges in | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|various Russian regions. Like last year they will take their | | |entrance exams in Grozny. The number of places in Chechnya's | |To Reader |institutions are expected to be increased and branches of a | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |range of institutions open in Chechnya's parts. Some | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||institutes of neighboring North Caucasian republics will also | |traditions| music |open their branches in Chechen regional centers. Chechen | | |Education Minister Lema Dadaev has stressed with ll these | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |Chechen young people have every possibility to study. | |, a Russian territory which has |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |witnessed the most tragic events|(more News from Chechnya...) | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Chechen Republic . And this is |history| traditions| music 14 April 2003 Sultan Vagapov ready| |very important, since a lack of |to act as mediator for those coming back to peaceful life | |fresh and accurate information |In Shatoi the clergy and elders are content with the fact that| |about events in Chechnya |the referendum of March 23d went through smoothly in their | |generates many distorted |region. Russian President Vladimir Putins address to the | |conceptions and rumours - both |Chechen residents on the eve of voting and his comments on the| |within and outside Russia . For |popular support for the constitution during his meeting with | |example, that Chechen society is|Akhmad Kadyrov in the wake of the referendum met with a | |allegedly inherently alien to |heartfelt response on the part of Chechens. Now Shatoi | |Russia , that pro-Russian |residents, the Shatoi kadi Sultan Vagapov points out, look | |elements in the republic are |forward to an improvement in all aspects of life. People hope | |marginalised; and lastly, that |that the promised compensation will soon be paid and that the | |Russian power structures are |restoration work will speed up. It is necessary to restore the| |fighting the Chechen people, |hospital, schools and seven worst damaged mosques of the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|districts 26. Residents themselves have restored the other 19 | |The reality, however, is that |mosques. Shatoi residents also pin their hopes on the Russian | |only with the return of the |Presidents initiative to declare an amnesty for those who have| |legitimate authorities are |not been involved in committing grave crimes. Sultan Vagapov | |villages and towns being |says that peace is the most cherished aspiration of the | |restored, children going to |district clergy, elders and all residents. He appeals to the | |school for the first time in |members of illegal armed groups to give up resistance, return | |many years, and pensioners |home and back to peaceful life. It is for 10 years that the | |receiving long-forgotten |people of Chechnya have been suffering, Sultan Vagapov says, | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |so it is high time that this suffering ended and the people | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |could live in keeping with the Constitution. He says he is | |referendum on a new Chechen |ready to act as a mediator for all those who wish to return to| |constitution, and parliamentary |peaceful life and adds that he will help all such people to | |and presidential elections. |give themselves up, hand over their weapons and return to | |These votes will be held, |civilian life. | |despite continued attempts by |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |bandit groups and their leaders |(more News from Chechnya) | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican |Chechen ethnos | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen |The invasion of Tamerlane | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |by no means a "national |traditions| music | |liberation struggle of the |An even more fearsome invader, Tamerlane, followed on the | |Chechen people", but an episode |Tartar-Mongols' heels. He had defeated the Golden Horde before| |in the overall offensive by |making an incursion into the mountainous part of Chechnya and | |international terrorism on the |destroying the reviving villages and towns. He did away with | |fundamental principles of modern|the Simsim Khanate of Islamic Chechnya whose ruler, Gayur | |civilisation. The facts show |Khan, was an ally of the Golden Horde. Tamerlane's forces | |that being a part of the Russian|numbered up to half a million fighting men. But in Chechnya | |Federation in no way threatens |Tamerlane met with stiff resistance. And it was only after | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|several attacks by his hundredfold stronger forces that | |identity, the free use of its |Tamerlane managed to seize control of the mountainous | |own language, and preaching |villages. That is why in Chechnya the Lame Timur - Tamerlane -| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |was cruel as never before. He turned the hostilities into a | |during de facto "independence" |regular bloodbath. Villages were burnt down and razed to the | |from Russia that the Chechen |ground both on the plains and in the mountainous part of | |people suffered a humanitarian |Chechnya.The ancestors of today's Chechens would not bow down | |tragedy on an unprecedented |to the invaders. But to fight off Genghiz Khan's and | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Tamerlane's hosts, they had to bring to perfection their | |trade and plundering came to |system of defensive installations. The highest density of | |form the economic basis of the |population, the lack of arable land forced them to take | |new regime, while chaos and war |advantage of every mountain slope and every small plateau. | |became the form of its political|They had gained experience in terracing the reclaimable land. | |existence. We want to emphasise |They brought soil and humus to their terraced fields and | |once more: Chechnya is part of |kitchen gardens.Dwelling and defensive towers made of mountain| |Russia , geographically, |rock, as well as the multitiered crypts of more than 500 | |politically and |"cities of the dead," can still be seen in the mountainous | |civilisation-wise. So a |part of Chechnya. Magnificent monuments of architecture are | |hypothetical triumph of radical |located in the Argunski, Assinski and Dzherakhovski Canyons, | |Islamism on its territory would |and in the environs of the high-altitude lakes of Kazenoi-Am | |be anti-historical. Such a |and Galanchozh. | |development would signify the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=etneng&| |establishment in the midst of |row=11] more ...) | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| | |with all ensuing consequences | Chechen history | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - |The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |journalists of the Russian |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Information Agency Novosti - |history| traditions| music | |have attempted to be as brief as| | |possible on providing answers to|The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |the most-often asked questions |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |(above all posed by a foreign |stages. | |audience) about the Chechen | | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|The first stage | |Chechnya : Questions and |The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |Answers". It draws heavily on |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |information provided by various |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |Russian ministries and |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |departments that in one or |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |another way are involved in |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |normalising life in the |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |republic. |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |Russian Information Agency |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |Novosti |The second stage | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |=eng] in detail ...) |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | | |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |Chechen culture |prevalent. | | |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |Music |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | | |Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |Contemporary Chechen music |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |Professional musicians of |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |Chechnya |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | | |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||he failed to do so. | |traditions| music The modern |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |school of professional music |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |draws inspiration from the |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |richest heritage of folk singing|at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |and musical tradition. Melodies,|consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |composed by unknown authors who |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |lived a long time ago, are still|afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |loved by the people. But the |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |20th century left us a long list|Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |of folk musicians, creators of |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |popular pieces of music.20th |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |century creations are usually |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |named after those who composed |The third stage | |and played them. Music sheets |The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |exist thanks to professional |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | |musicians. The Bisirkhoyev |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | |family, Yusup Gadayev, Sesikat |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | |Dudayeva, Ibraghim Batayev, |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | |Baudin Suleimanov are the best |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | |known of the folk musicians. |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | |Highly talented accordeon player|time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| |Magomayev composed the well |an attempt to unite mountain people too by concluding an | |known "Shamil's Prayer." One |alliance between free Chechnya and feudal principalities of | |day, a legend says, Imam |the North Caucasus. Beibulat Taimiev called for a peaceful | |Shamil's forces were trapped. |solution to the conflict and wanted to avoid a big war with | |The situation was hopeless. But |Russia. His treacherous murder led to the escalation of | |Shamil got an idea. At first he |military operations. | |knelt in prayer, then gave |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |orders to his musicians and, |historyeng&row=2] (more about chechen history...) | |loath as he was of any kind of | | |entertainment, started dancing. | Chechen cuisine | |His fiery dancing aroused his | | |men. And, in the midst of the |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |dancing, Shamil gave orders for |traditions| music | |fighting. His men fought like |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |lions and broke the circle of |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |siege. "Shamil's Prayer" |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |consists of two parts: the first|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |is sad and slow-moving, the |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |second makes you want to dance. |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Composer G.Kh.Melpurnov |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |(1900-1957) did much for the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |development of professional |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |music in Chechnya. It was on his|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |initiative that a band of folk |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |instruments was formed in 1936. |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |The bandmen played the |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |traditional dechik-pondur, |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |harmonica, zurna, and percussion|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |instruments, as well as the more|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |modern balalaika counterbass and|their own. | |updated adkhoku-pondury. While |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |collecting and polishing Chechen|eng] in detail ...) | |and Ingush folk tunes, | | |G.Kh.Melpurnov produced his own | | |arrangements and original pieces| | |of music. |## | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |cmmoderneng&row=1] more...) | 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&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com