The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 86 | | | 19.04.03 | |200 books for Grozny medical | | |college |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Sergey Stepashin, head of the |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Russian Book Union and of the |history| traditions| music' 19 April 2003 The UN supports | |Russian Audit Chamber, when |Russias policy on Chechnya | |meeting with students at the |Another attempt to have the UN Human Rights Commission approve| |medical college in the capital |an anti-Russian resolution on Chechnya has failed. The | |of Chechnya, Grozny, handed them|resolution, submitted by the European Union and a number of | |over 200 copies of fiction, |countries seeking EU membership, secured the support of only | |reference books and |15 of the 53 Commission member-states in the voting on April | |encyclopaedias, RIA Novosti |16th. 21 delegations voted against the draft resolution, which| |reports. Among the books |essentially not only fails to help search for political | |delivered are works by the |solutions for Chechnya, as the chief Russian delegate Leonid | |outstanding writers of the 19th |Skotnikov put it, but , strictly speaking, gets in the way of | |and 20th centuries-Fyodor |a political settlement by sending a wrong signal to the few | |Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan|opponents of the process. The Russian Foreign Ministry | |Bunin, France's Balzac and |official spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said in a comment on | |Britain's William Shakespeare. |the vote that the results are yet another evidence that the | |The multi-volume History of |world community has been growing increasingly more aware of | |Russia, which was also among the|that the people of Chechnya have made their choice in favour | |gifts, has been recognised as |of peace and development together with Russia and have turned | |the best Russian edition of |their back on terrorists and extremists. The Chairman of the | |2000. Sergey Stepashin visited |International Affairs Committee of the Russian Parliaments | |Grozny to take part in the away |lower house Dmitry Rogozin said that an odious resolution on | |session of the Audit Chamber |Chechnya by the UN Commission would have proved glaring | |board to consider the way the |evidence of the double standard policy and would have | |federal budget means for |therefore triggered a strong reaction from Russia. The way the| |economic and social |UN Commission voted was to be expected, the Russian Government| |rehabilitation of Chechnya were |Minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov says, since Moscow has| |being spent in the republic |been making consistent efforts to guarantee human rights in | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya. The process may have sometimes failed to proceed | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |smoothly enough, he said, yet some positive change has been on| |more...) |hand, - the judicial system in Chechnya has again become | | |operational, while the military prosecutors office and the | |Red Cross corrects activity on |local police have grown much more confident and energetic. The| |rendering aid to Chechnya |Russian Presidents point man in charge of guaranteeing the | | |rights and freedoms of man and citizen in Chechnya Abdul-Hakim| |The International Red Cross |Sultygov described the UN Commission voting as the world | |Committee (IRCC) has introduced |communitys long-awaited insight. The United Nations has taught| |corrections in its activity in |the Council of Europe a good lesson, he said. By refusing to | |the North Caucasus on rendering |support the resolution on Chechnya, Sultygov said, the UN | |emergency aid to restore |Commission member-nations made it clear that the world | |destroyed infrastructures of |community sees as the more important the currently made | |regions suffered as a result of |efforts to settle the Chechen crisis politically. By voting | |combat actions, Itar-Tass learnt|down the resolution on Chechnya the United Nations clearly | |at the Moscow IRCC |provided support for Russias domestic policy. | |representation. In the current |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |year, the IRCC will double aid |(more News from Chechnya) | |to hospital in Chechnya, as well| | |as organize works on restoring |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |water supply systems in several |history| traditions| music 18 April 2003 The United Nations | |settlements of the republic. To |will contribute to the constitutional settlement of the | |render humanitarian aid in the |Chechen problems | |North Caucasus, the IRCC has |President Putin's human rights commissioner for Chechnya | |allocated more than 27 million |Abdul-Khakim Sultygov has told media people in Geneva that | |dollars. Over 150,000 residents |Russia is willing to join forces with international human | |of the region get food and other|rights watches for "practical efforts that leave no room for | |kinds of aid every month. The |the politization of the situation and interference in the | |IRCC began its activity in the |affairs of a sovereign nation." Sultygov wants cooperation | |North Caucasus in 1993 |between Russia and international human rights watches to rest | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |on "programs and projects that aim to settle the people's | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |problems." Expanded cooperation is what Sultygov discussed | |more...) |with the United Nations' Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio | | |Vieira de Mello. Vieira de Mello agreed that "one would find | | Chechen history |it impossible to make serious progress in the field of human | | |rights in Chechnya if one ignored factors that would lead to | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|the radical change in the situation - the constitutional | | |referendum, the upcoming amnesty, the restoration of a normal | |To Reader |legal system and the efforts to settle a whole range of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |problems, including that of blood feud." Vieira de Mello | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||agreed that the referendum was "the most important step on the| |traditions| music |road for the settlement of the Chechen crisis and the | | |beginning of a comprehensive political accommodation." In | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |Sultygov's view, the referendum gave the Chechens a chance to | |, a Russian territory which has |say how they felt about international terrorism. The returns | |witnessed the most tragic events|of the referendum proved that "the problem of international | |over the past decade. The book |terrorism no longer existed as a political problem in the | |is the latest update on the |Russian Federation." Vieira de Mello agreed that other | |Chechen Republic . And this is |countries could cash in on the Russian experience in settling | |very important, since a lack of |conflicts. Sultygov and Vieira de Mello agreed that the United| |fresh and accurate information |Nations would help Moscow settle some of the Chechen problems.| |about events in Chechnya |It would, for example, be engaged in the social rehabilitation| |generates many distorted |of amnestied Chechens. | |conceptions and rumours - both |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |within and outside Russia . For |(more News from Chechnya) | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |18 April 2003 Audit Chamber has uncovered misspending in | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Chechnya | |elements in the republic are |The Russian Audit Chamber has uncovered misspending of 366 | |marginalised; and lastly, that |million rubles (some 11 million euros) in Chechnya, Chamber's | |Russian power structures are |Head Sergei Stepashin said in Grozny to RIA Novosti. According| |fighting the Chechen people, |to him, the Government gave the money in question to the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|republic for rebuilding social services. The Audit Chamber has| |The reality, however, is that |revealed that 21 million rubles out of the total 366 million | |only with the return of the |were misappropriated. "The facts have been established and the| |legitimate authorities are |necessary documents will soon be handed over to the | |villages and towns being |prosecutor's office," Stepashin pointed out. Chechnya's 2002 | |restored, children going to |budget was executed in full, he said. At the same time, | |school for the first time in |according to Stepashin, in many cases money was not spent | |many years, and pensioners |wisely, but "was spread all over the republic." On Friday, the| |receiving long-forgotten |head of the Audit Chamber arrived in Grozny to hold the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |department's first field check-up to see how the federal | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |target program for the reconstruction of Chechnya is being | |referendum on a new Chechen |implemented. Stepashin is being assisted by Head of the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen Administration Ahmad Kadyrov and the republic's | |and presidential elections. |Cabinet members. | |These votes will be held, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |despite continued attempts by |(more News from Chechnya...) | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of |18 April 2003 Minister Zorin: The formation of power in | |normalisation in the republic, |Chechnya will return Russian-speaking population to the | |the latest terrorist act being |republic | |the bombing of the republican |The formation and the legalisation of bodies of power in | |government building. The war |Chechnya will make it possible to return Russian-speaking | |being waged by Chechen |population to the republic. Minister of Nationalities Policy | |separatists against federal |of the Russian Federation Vladimir Zorin spoke about it at a | |forces and more often than not |briefing, answering a RIA Novosti correspondent's question. | |against their own co-citizens is|According to the minister, the recent referendum on the | |by no means a "national |Chechen constitution and its results "will put a gravestone on| |liberation struggle of the |the idea of separatism and nationalism in the Chechen | |Chechen people", but an episode |republic." When commenting on the legal assessment by the | |in the overall offensive by |government of the facts of genocide with regard to the | |international terrorism on the |Russian-speaking population in Chechnya, Vladimir Zorin said | |fundamental principles of modern|that "history will assess these facts and will do justice to | |civilisation. The facts show |such actions." At the same time, Zorin underscored that not | |that being a part of the Russian|only Russian-speaking inhabitants were leaving the republic. | |Federation in no way threatens |For instance, in 1996 and after the elections of the president| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|of Ichkeria in 1997, some 60,000 people, mainly Chechens, left| |identity, the free use of its |the republic. | |own language, and preaching |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |(more News from Chechnya...) | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |people suffered a humanitarian |history| traditions| music 17 April 2003 Chelyabinsk Region | |tragedy on an unprecedented |and Chechnya Decide To Boost Cooperation | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Chelyabinsk region has become another Russian region to sign | |trade and plundering came to |with Chechnya a bilateral agreement on boosting trade, | |form the economic basis of the |economic, scientific, technical, social and cultural ties. | |new regime, while chaos and war |Chelyabinsk regions Governor, Petr Sumin, and the head of the | |became the form of its political|Chechen Administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, signed the document in| |existence. We want to emphasise |absentia - Mr. Sumin in Chelyabinsk and Mr. Kadyrov in Grozny.| |once more: Chechnya is part of |The agreement is yet to be filled with exact guidelines, but | |Russia , geographically, |now it provides for concerted action to create favorable | |politically and |economic, financial and legal conditions for investment and | |civilisation-wise. So a |business activities and for exchange of information, | |hypothetical triumph of radical |technologies and experience. The two sides also plan to draw | |Islamism on its territory would |up complex development programs and programs for supporting | |be anti-historical. Such a |small-scale business. Chelyabinsk region that has considerable| |development would signify the |resources is ready to supply Chechen industrial enterprises | |establishment in the midst of |with building materials, metal production, road-building | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|machinery and machines. | |with all ensuing consequences |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |for the international community.|(more News from Chechnya) | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as|Chechen ethnos | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often asked questions |The invasion of Tamerlane | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen | | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Chechnya : Questions and |traditions| music | |Answers". It draws heavily on |An even more fearsome invader, Tamerlane, followed on the | |information provided by various |Tartar-Mongols' heels. He had defeated the Golden Horde before| |Russian ministries and |making an incursion into the mountainous part of Chechnya and | |departments that in one or |destroying the reviving villages and towns. He did away with | |another way are involved in |the Simsim Khanate of Islamic Chechnya whose ruler, Gayur | |normalising life in the |Khan, was an ally of the Golden Horde. Tamerlane's forces | |republic. |numbered up to half a million fighting men. But in Chechnya | |Russian Information Agency |Tamerlane met with stiff resistance. And it was only after | |Novosti |several attacks by his hundredfold stronger forces that | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Tamerlane managed to seize control of the mountainous | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|villages. That is why in Chechnya the Lame Timur - Tamerlane -| |=eng] in detail ...) |was cruel as never before. He turned the hostilities into a | | |regular bloodbath. Villages were burnt down and razed to the | |Chechen culture |ground both on the plains and in the mountainous part of | | |Chechnya.The ancestors of today's Chechens would not bow down | |Music |to the invaders. But to fight off Genghiz Khan's and | | |Tamerlane's hosts, they had to bring to perfection their | |Contemporary Chechen music |system of defensive installations. The highest density of | |Professional musicians of |population, the lack of arable land forced them to take | |Chechnya |advantage of every mountain slope and every small plateau. | | |They had gained experience in terracing the reclaimable land. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |They brought soil and humus to their terraced fields and | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||kitchen gardens.Dwelling and defensive towers made of mountain| |traditions| music The modern |rock, as well as the multitiered crypts of more than 500 | |school of professional music |"cities of the dead," can still be seen in the mountainous | |draws inspiration from the |part of Chechnya. Magnificent monuments of architecture are | |richest heritage of folk singing|located in the Argunski, Assinski and Dzherakhovski Canyons, | |and musical tradition. Melodies,|and in the environs of the high-altitude lakes of Kazenoi-Am | |composed by unknown authors who |and Galanchozh. | |lived a long time ago, are still|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=etneng&| |loved by the people. But the |row=11] more ...) | |20th century left us a long list| | |of folk musicians, creators of | Chechen history | |popular pieces of music.20th | | |century creations are usually |The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |named after those who composed |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |and played them. Music sheets |history| traditions| music | |exist thanks to professional | | |musicians. The Bisirkhoyev |The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |family, Yusup Gadayev, Sesikat |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |Dudayeva, Ibraghim Batayev, |stages. | |Baudin Suleimanov are the best | | |known of the folk musicians. |The first stage | |Highly talented accordeon player|The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |Magomayev composed the well |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |known "Shamil's Prayer." One |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |day, a legend says, Imam |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |Shamil's forces were trapped. |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |The situation was hopeless. But |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |Shamil got an idea. At first he |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |knelt in prayer, then gave |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |orders to his musicians and, |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |loath as he was of any kind of |The second stage | |entertainment, started dancing. |The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |His fiery dancing aroused his |century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |men. And, in the midst of the |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |dancing, Shamil gave orders for |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |fighting. His men fought like |prevalent. | |lions and broke the circle of |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |siege. "Shamil's Prayer" |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |consists of two parts: the first|Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |is sad and slow-moving, the |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |second makes you want to dance. |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |Composer G.Kh.Melpurnov |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |(1900-1957) did much for the |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |development of professional |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |music in Chechnya. It was on his|he failed to do so. | |initiative that a band of folk |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |instruments was formed in 1936. |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |The bandmen played the |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |traditional dechik-pondur, |at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |harmonica, zurna, and percussion|consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |instruments, as well as the more|restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |modern balalaika counterbass and|afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |updated adkhoku-pondury. While |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |collecting and polishing Chechen|Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |and Ingush folk tunes, |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |G.Kh.Melpurnov produced his own |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |arrangements and original pieces|captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |of music. |The third stage | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | |cmmoderneng&row=1] more...) |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | | |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | | |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | | |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | | |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | | |time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| | |an attempt to unite mountain people too by concluding an | | |alliance between free Chechnya and feudal principalities of | | |the North Caucasus. Beibulat Taimiev called for a peaceful | | |solution to the conflict and wanted to avoid a big war with | | |Russia. His treacherous murder led to the escalation of | | |military operations. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |historyeng&row=2] (more about chechen history...) | | | | | | 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&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com