The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 88 | | | 26.04.03 | |Sergei Fridinsky: Over 150 | | |people sentenced for terrorism |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |in southern district in 2002- | | |2003 |'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | | |history| traditions| music' 26 April 2003 Grozneft Company | |Over 150 people were found |Sums up the Results of Its Activity in the First Quarter of | |guilty of terrorist activity in |2003 | |the southern federal district in|Grozneft, subsidiary company of Rosneft, has summed up the | |2002- 2003, Deputy Prosecutor |results of its activity in the first quarter of 2003.Figures | |General Sergei Fridinsky said on|are impressive. Since the beginning of the year 425,000 tonnes| |Friday. Considerable progress |of oil have been extracted, this exceeds the plan targets by | |has been made in eradicating |6,000 tonnes. The volume of extracted gas is 92 million cubic | |terrorism in the area, Fridinsky|metres: the target have been beaten by 15 million cubic | |noted. "Regional law enforcement|metres. At present oil extraction in Chechnya is conducted at | |agencies detained a large number|724 oil bores. Since the beginning of the year 5 new bores | |of criminals," he said. The |have been put into operation, and 5 bores have been restored. | |Stavropol territory, Dagestan |A trend toward increasing oil and gas extraction have become | |and Chechnya "advanced further |stable in the republic since 2002 when efficient measures were| |than other areas," he said. |taken to restore oil and gas industry. Within 10 months the | |"Certain improvements have been |restoration work was done to the tune of over 1.73 billion | |made in investigating these |roubles. Repair work to restore high-pressure pipelines and | |crimes in the republic of North |gas distributing stations was conducted in the Nadtechny, | |Ossetia-Alanya," he said. |Shelkovski, Shalinsk, Argun and Gudermes regions. As a result,| |Prosecutors in the southern |a greater number of administrative and communal facilities | |federal district "are focusing |were provided with gas. At oil facilities 33 oil fountains, | |on extremist organizations, |including 6 burning ones, have been liquidated since early | |which have worked for years |2002. Five new oil fields and 29 oil bores were put into | |without registration," he said. |exploitation,122 kilometres of oil pipelines and 29 kilometres| |Such organizations present a |of gas pipelines were restored. All in all some 1.5 million | |huge problem and further "work |tonnes of oil were extracted in the republic last year, this | |with them is doubtless |is twice as much as in the previous year. This year 1.75 | |necessary," he said. "In the |million tonnes of oil are expected to be produced in Chechnya.| |course of criminal |One of the most complicated problems of the Chechen oil and | |investigations, numerous details|gas industry is misappropriation of oil. True, some success | |on the organization of bandit |have been reached in the struggle against this evil.Since 2000| |formations in the southern |when Grozneft began operating the number of cases have been | |federal district were |reduced markedly. According to the republic's Interior | |clarified," he said. Inrefax |Ministry, some 15 mini-plants for illegal oil processing are | |reports. |liquidated in Chechnya daily. Shortly oil refineries in | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya will be equipped with electronic security system. The| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |measure stipulates that experts of the "Okhrana" research | |more...) |centre will install special sensors capable of spotting any | | |unsanctioned oil leakages. This home-made system has no | |Odious terrorists hide in |analogues in the world. Revenues from the Grozneft activity | |Pankisi |and federal subsidies are the main source of replenishing the | | |republic's budget. Part of Grozneft revenues is re-invested to| |Several odious terrorists hide |promote the production. | |in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia,|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |the senior spokesman for the |(more News from Chechnya) | |Georgian Security Ministry, Nika| | |Laliashvili, said. According to |Alu Alkhanov appointed Chechnyas newinterior minister 25 April| |Itar-Tass, he said on Rustavi-2 |2003 Alu Alkhanov appointed Chechnyas new interior minister | |television on Friday that the |The role of the interior agencies in the normalization of life| |terrorist include "Achimez |in Chechnya is in all likelihood defining. Head of the Chechen| |Gochiyaev, an organizer of |government Anatoly Popov said this introducing new Chechen | |blasts at apartment blocks in |interior minister Alu Alkhanov to the ministry officials. | |Moscow and Volgodonsk in the |According to Mr. Popov, if peoples security is not ensured, | |autumn of 1999". Laliashvili |they wont be able to live normally, work and raise children. | |said the "Georgian Security |Congratulating the news minister, he emphasized that along | |Ministry had earlier informed |with a news office, he assumes great responsibility before the| |that other two-three odious |republic and all of its people. The Chechen prime minister | |figures were still staying in |extended congratulations from head of the Chechen | |the Pankisi Gorge, and we are |administration Ahmad Kadyrov to minister Alkhanov and a sword | |confirming this information |as a present with the words may this sword rest in your hands | |today". "Georgian security |as long as there is just a militant in the republic. | |services actively cooperate and |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |exchange operational information|(more News from Chechnya) | |with colleagues from Russia and | | |Western countries with the aim |25 April 2003 Stanislav Ilyasov: Over 22 bln rbls envisaged | |of revealing and detaining |for restoration of Chechnya in 2003 | |persons who are suspected of |22 billion and 505 million roubles have been preliminary | |committing grave crimes and |envisaged for restoring the socio-economic sphere of Chechnya | |terrorist acts," Laliashvili |in 2003, Russian Minister Stanislav Ilyasov said, opening a | |said. He said "as a result of |meeting of the governmental commission on restoration of | |such cooperation of Georgian and|Chechnya on Friday. Stanislav Ilyasov also said that, | |Russian security series, an |according to the results of 2002, the financing of a series of| |accomplice of Gochiyev, Adam |measures on restoring the republic was covered by 96.2 | |Dekkushev, who previously hided |percent. The financing of the targeted program amounted to | |in the Pankisi Gorge, was |4.76 billion roubles, covered by about 90 percent. Besides, in| |detained on the Black Coast of |2002, the consolidated budget of Chechnya was fulfilled by 104| |Georgia in the in summer of |percent (7.39 billion roubles). At the same time, budget | |2002". "In December of the last |revenues increased 3.7 fold, including their federal share. | |year, the Georgian side carried |Itar-Tass reports. | |out an operation to liquidate |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |several terrorists in the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Lagodekhi district; another | | |terrorist, Kryshmakhalov, was |25 April 2003 Chechen Security Council chief denies attack on| |then turned over to Russia," |Kadyrov | |Laliashvili said. |The Chechen civil administration has categorically denied | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |reports circulated by a separatist website claiming that head | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |of the administration Akhmad Kadyrov was gravely wounded on | |more...) |Thursday evening. "There have been no incidents involving | | |Akhmad Kadyrov in the past 24 hours," Secretary of the Chechen| | Chechen history |Security Council Rudnik Dudayev told Interfax. According to | | |Dudayev, Kadyrov left for one of the regions in Chechnya on | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Friday morning to attend a session with Russian federal | | |government representatives. Falsified information claiming | |To Reader |that Kadyrov was wounded or attacked "is regularly spread by | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |those websites," Dudayev said. The authors of the latest | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||report claimed that "Kadyrov's car was blasted, and scouts saw| |traditions| music |him lying near the car," after which, it said, "Kadyrov was | | |taken to the hospital in Khankala". | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |, a Russian territory which has |(more News from Chechnya...) | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book |A new bus station opens in Grozny 24 April 2003 A new bus | |is the latest update on the |station opens in Grozny | |Chechen Republic . And this is |A new bus station has replaced the old and totally destroyed | |very important, since a lack of |one, in Grozny. Until recently, people who took a bus out of | |fresh and accurate information |Chechnya never knew where exactly they should board the bus. | |about events in Chechnya |Comfortable buses will, from now on, be taking off from the | |generates many distorted |handsome station. They are routed in almost 100 directions and| |conceptions and rumours - both |will take people to various parts of Chechnya and all major | |within and outside Russia . For |cities of the Southern Federal District, i.e. Volgograd, | |example, that Chechen society is|Cherkessk, Minvody and Astrakhan, as well as to Moscow. The | |allegedly inherently alien to |opening of the bus station benefits those who live in Chechnya| |Russia , that pro-Russian |and Chechens who happen to live in other places. People | |elements in the republic are |engaged in the Chechen reconstruction effort will also be | |marginalised; and lastly, that |likely to take a bus. | |Russian power structures are |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |fighting the Chechen people, |(more News from Chechnya) | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are | Chechen History | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to |Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture a new book by a | |school for the first time in | young historian Zarema Ibragimova | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |traditions| music | |referendum on a new Chechen |The Moscow publishing house PRAVDA has just released a book by| |constitution, and parliamentary |a graduate of the Faculty of History of Chechen State | |and presidential elections. |University, Candidate of History, currently working on her | |These votes will be held, |doctors degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the | |despite continued attempts by |Russian Academy of Sciences, Zarema Ibragimova. The book is | |bandit groups and their leaders |entitled Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture and | |to scupper the process of |focuses on Chechnyas history in the second half of the 19th | |normalisation in the republic, |century. It features facts that are based on hitherto | |the latest terrorist act being |inaccessible archive materials, kept stored in Moscow, St. | |the bombing of the republican |Petersbourg and Vladikavkaz. The author of the 500-page book | |government building. The war |with numerous illustrations and coloured supplementary sheets | |being waged by Chechen |describes all aspects of the Chechen peoples life during the | |separatists against federal |involved period in Chechen history, with efforts being made to| |forces and more often than not |reach a social and political settlement in Chechnya in the | |against their own co-citizens is|wake of the Caucasus war, as well as to carry out a military, | |by no means a "national |judicial and land reform in Chechnya. The author also speaks | |liberation struggle of the |at length about agricultural and industrial production and | |Chechen people", but an episode |trade, as well as about efforts to promote Muslim and secular | |in the overall offensive by |education. | |international terrorism on the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |fundamental principles of modern|newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian| History of Russian-Chechen relations | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |identity, the free use of its |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |own language, and preaching |history| traditions| music | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" |The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |from Russia that the Chechen |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |people suffered a humanitarian |stages. | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|The first stage | |trade and plundering came to |The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |form the economic basis of the |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |new regime, while chaos and war |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |became the form of its political|is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |existence. We want to emphasise |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |once more: Chechnya is part of |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |Russia , geographically, |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |politically and |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |civilisation-wise. So a |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |hypothetical triumph of radical |The second stage | |Islamism on its territory would |The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |be anti-historical. Such a |century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |development would signify the |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |establishment in the midst of |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|prevalent. | |with all ensuing consequences |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |for the international community.|the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |The corporate author - |Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |journalists of the Russian |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |Information Agency Novosti - |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |have attempted to be as brief as|struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |possible on providing answers to|first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |the most-often aked questions |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |(above all posed by a foreign |he failed to do so. | |audience) about the Chechen |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |Chechnya : Questions and |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |Answers". It draws heavily on |at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |information provided by various |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |Russian ministries and |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |departments that in one or |afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |another way are involved in |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |normalising life in the |Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |republic. |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |Russian Information Agency |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |Novosti |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |The third stage | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |=eng] in detail ...) |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | | |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | |Chechen culture |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | | |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | |Music |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | | |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | |Contemporary Chechen music |time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| |Professional musicians of |an attempt to unite mountain people too by concluding an | |Chechnya |alliance between free Chechnya and feudal principalities of | | |the North Caucasus. Beibulat Taimiev called for a peaceful | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |solution to the conflict and wanted to avoid a big war with | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Russia. His treacherous murder led to the escalation of | |traditions| music The modern |military operations. | |school of professional music |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |draws inspiration from the |historyeng&row=2] (more about chechen history...) | |richest heritage of folk singing| | |and musical tradition. Melodies,| Chechen cuisine | |composed by unknown authors who | | |lived a long time ago, are still|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |loved by the people. But the |traditions| music | |20th century left us a long list|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |of folk musicians, creators of |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |popular pieces of music.20th |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |century creations are usually |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |named after those who composed |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |and played them. Music sheets |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |exist thanks to professional |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |musicians. The Bisirkhoyev |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |family, Yusup Gadayev, Sesikat |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Dudayeva, Ibraghim Batayev, |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Baudin Suleimanov are the best |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |known of the folk musicians. |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Highly talented accordeon player|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Magomayev composed the well |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |known "Shamil's Prayer." One |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |day, a legend says, Imam |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Shamil's forces were trapped. |their own. | |The situation was hopeless. But |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Shamil got an idea. At first he |eng] in detail ...) | |knelt in prayer, then gave | | |orders to his musicians and, | | |loath as he was of any kind of | | |entertainment, started dancing. |## | |His fiery dancing aroused his | | |men. And, in the midst of the |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |dancing, Shamil gave orders for | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |fighting. His men fought like | | |lions and broke the circle of | | |siege. "Shamil's Prayer" | | |consists of two parts: the first| | |is sad and slow-moving, the | | |second makes you want to dance. | | |Composer G.Kh.Melpurnov | | |(1900-1957) did much for the | | |development of professional | | |music in Chechnya. It was on his| | |initiative that a band of folk | | |instruments was formed in 1936. | | |The bandmen played the | | |traditional dechik-pondur, | | |harmonica, zurna, and percussion| | |instruments, as well as the more| | |modern balalaika counterbass and| | |updated adkhoku-pondury. While | | |collecting and polishing Chechen| | |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= | | |cmmoderneng&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