The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 89 | | | 06.05.03 | |Al Qaeda centers can move to | | |Chechnya or Georgia |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Al Qaeda operational centers can|'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |move to Chechnya and Georgia |history| traditions| music' 05 May 2003 For Grozny's school | |from Afghanistan, French |students, an exciting summer ahead | |Interior Minister Nicolas |Last summer, Grozny's Education Department arranged for 8 | |Sarkozy said. The French |thousand free vacations - mostly for elementary students - at | |minister took part in a meeting |resorts in Kabardino-Balkaria and on the coast of the Black | |of G-8 interior ministers in |Sea. Department head Vera Umalatova tells us that this summer | |Paris, Itar-Tass reports. "The |the figure should be significantly higher. Each schoolkid | |threat of terrorism is high and |remaining in town will be getting free meals at his or her | |we are convinced that we should |school canteen. Each will also be welcome to join a variety of| |not weaken precautions," he |entertainment, cultural and sporting events. The students at | |said. Sarkozy said the Al Qaeda |Grozny's schools number 23 and a half thousand. This spells | |terrorist network "is |over 2 thousand regular school-leavers plus dozens or even | |disorganized because of actions |hundreds who pass graduation exams after completing extramural| |in Afghanistan and its |courses. On request from the Chechen government head Anatoli | |operational centers can move to |Popov, the federal Education Ministers reserves 500 student | |Chechnya or Georgia". Commenting|places for them in Russian colleges and universities outside | |on a possible influence of the |Chechnya. In line with the practice last year, the applicants | |diplomatic crisis between Paris |will stand their admission exams in Grozny. The Ministry also | |and Washington on anti-terrorist|expands higher education in Chechnya itself. Many Chechen | |cooperation between special |colleges and universities will have more student places | |services, the French minister |beginning with September and will probably open new campuses | |said it "has not ceased because |as well. Colleges and universities in neighbouring North | |this regards security of our |Caucasian regions plan campuses in several Chechen district | |citizens". Special services |seats. The federal Education Ministry plans to supply Chechen | |continue to exchange |schools with 10 million roubles worth of laboratory equipment | |information, he added. |(biology, chemistry, physics). Some 300 hundred schools are | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |expected to receive some 900 kits before the end of this year.| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Schools in remote mountain districts will be served by | |more...) |up-to-date labs on wheels. Each school library gets hundreds | | |of new books in time for the opening of the next academic year| |Chechnyas Prime Minister rewards|in September. The public school board of Grozny employs 1,345 | |for informing on rebels will |teachers. One hundred and twenty enjoyed free holidays in rest| |bring stability to republic |homes last year. This year, 4 to 5 hundred can look forward to| | |such vacations. | |Prime Minister Anatoly Popov of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Chechnya welcomes the idea of |(more News from Chechnya) | |rewarding anyone who informs the| | |police of rebels, RIA Novosti |05 May 2003 Former Chechen Interior Minister dies | |reports. He made this clear |Chechnya's former interior minister, Ruslan Tsakayev has died | |Monday as he commented on the |of a heart attack. He was 46. He was buried in his home | |proposal to set up a special |village of Terskoye near Stavropol, Chechnya's Security | |fund for the purpose, which had |Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev said to Itar-Tass. Tsakayev | |been put forward by Ahmar |was appointed Chechnya's interior minister last December. | |Zavgayev, a Chechen delegate to |Under his guidance the Chechen police maintained law and order| |the Federation Council, or |during preparations for Chechnya's constitutional referendum | |Russia's upper house of |and on the polling day. Early last month Tsakayev tendered his| |parliament. The establishment of|resignation to be succeeded by Alu Alkhanov. Chechen | |such a fund would help stabilise|government, Interior Ministry and Security Council officials | |the situation in Chechnya, |arrived in Terskoye to offer their condolences to Tsakayev's | |Premier Popov believes. "Those |family. | |who have funds and who are tired|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |and sick of instability in the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |republic are willing to sponsor | | |the fund," he says. But the |05 May 2003 Sultygov denies federal support for his election | |Chechen prime minister takes a |as Chechen president | |cautious attitude to the idea of|Human Rights Ombudsman for Chechnya Abdul-Khakim Sultygov has | |buying unregistered weapons from|described press reports alleging federal support for his | |local inhabitants. In his |future election as Chechen president as provocations. | |opinion, each such case should |"Obviously provocative judgments of anonymous Moscow sources | |be considered separately as |are aimed at a conflict between the two envoys of the Russian | |there is a possibility that |president in the Chechen republic and discrediting federal | |money received for old arms will|policy," Sultygov told Interfax on Monday. He said he had | |be used to buy new ones. |never aspired to be an elected official in any part of the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Russian Federation. "What really matters today is not the | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |person to win the Chechen presidential election. It is the | |more...) |ability of the authorities, primarily the republic's Interior | | |Ministry, to justify the vote of confidence the people of | | Chechen history |Chechnya gave in the referendum and to contain the crime rate,| | |first and foremost abductions and murders," Sultygov said. | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya) | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |05 May 2003 ase hearings on kidnapping of member of Doctors | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||without Borders mission starts | |traditions| music |The Rostov Regional Court (the south of Russia) starts | | |hearings of the case of the kidnapping of Kenneth Cluck, a | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |member of the Doctors without Borders mission in the territory| |, a Russian territory which has |of the Chechen Republic in 2001. The RIA Novosti correspondent| |witnessed the most tragic events|was told about it by press secretary of the court Konstantin | |over the past decade. The book |Miroshnichenko. According to him, Magomed Gakayev and Ayub | |is the latest update on the |Katayev appear before the court. They are accused of | |Chechen Republic . And this is |complicity in the kidnapping. According to the materials of | |very important, since a lack of |the investigation, the crime was organised and carried out by | |fresh and accurate information |a group, which was headed by Abubakar Zhumayev, who was | |about events in Chechnya |eliminated in the course of the anti-terrorist operation in | |generates many distorted |February of 2002. Kenneth Cluck was kidnapped on January 9th, | |conceptions and rumours - both |2001 and was kept for a month. | |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 |Residents of Siberia To Take Part inChechnyas Restoration 02 | |elements in the republic are |May 2003 Residents of Siberia To Take Part in Chechnyas | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Restoration | |Russian power structures are |Naturally, troubles suffered by a Russian region affect other | |fighting the Chechen people, |regions as well. According to the Russian Presidents envoy to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|the Siberian Federal District Leonid Drachevsky, Chechnyas | |The reality, however, is that |conflict and its revival are not only Chechnyas domestic | |only with the return of the |problems. These should be settled by concerted effort. | |legitimate authorities are |Residents of Siberia continue to pool every effort to help | |villages and towns being |restoring Chechnya. They have been focussing on childrens | |restored, children going to |problems. A humanitarian campaign to help Chechen kids has | |school for the first time in |aided to collect and send to the republic about 25 tons of | |many years, and pensioners |humanitarian cargo, including over 86.000 textbooks and | |receiving long-forgotten |notebooks, paper and school items. The Siberians have also | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |pushed an initiative to build there two schools to receive 220| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |and 320 schoolchildren correspondingly and supply them with | |referendum on a new Chechen |all necessary equipment. About 30 million rubles are required | |constitution, and parliamentary |to this end. Following the decision by the Siberian Federal | |and presidential elections. |Districts Council, every Russian region is ready to contribute| |These votes will be held, |to this noble gesture. The schools will be set up in | |despite continued attempts by |Nozhai-Urt and Itum-Kalinsky regions where officers of the | |bandit groups and their leaders |Omsk and Krasnoyarsk interior departments have been serving. | |to scupper the process of |The projects customers will be Siberian representatives who | |normalisation in the republic, |will control the construction whereupon the contractors - | |the latest terrorist act being |local building companies. This will supply many Chechens with | |the bombing of the republican |jobs. The construction of the schools is expected to wrap up | |government building. The war |by the start of a new academic year. The Siberians realize the| |being waged by Chechen |Chechen children and youth must be provided with education and| |separatists against federal |profession and live a life of peace. | |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|Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture a new book by a | |civilisation. The facts show | young historian Zarema Ibragimova | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |identity, the free use of its |traditions| music | |own language, and preaching |The Moscow publishing house PRAVDA has just released a book by| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |a graduate of the Faculty of History of Chechen State | |during de facto "independence" |University, Candidate of History, currently working on her | |from Russia that the Chechen |doctors degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the | |people suffered a humanitarian |Russian Academy of Sciences, Zarema Ibragimova. The book is | |tragedy on an unprecedented |entitled Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture and | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|focuses on Chechnyas history in the second half of the 19th | |trade and plundering came to |century. It features facts that are based on hitherto | |form the economic basis of the |inaccessible archive materials, kept stored in Moscow, St. | |new regime, while chaos and war |Petersbourg and Vladikavkaz. The author of the 500-page book | |became the form of its political|with numerous illustrations and coloured supplementary sheets | |existence. We want to emphasise |describes all aspects of the Chechen peoples life during the | |once more: Chechnya is part of |involved period in Chechen history, with efforts being made to| |Russia , geographically, |reach a social and political settlement in Chechnya in the | |politically and |wake of the Caucasus war, as well as to carry out a military, | |civilisation-wise. So a |judicial and land reform in Chechnya. The author also speaks | |hypothetical triumph of radical |at length about agricultural and industrial production and | |Islamism on its territory would |trade, as well as about efforts to promote Muslim and secular | |be anti-historical. Such a |education. | |development would signify the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |establishment in the midst of |newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| | |with all ensuing consequences | History of Russian-Chechen relations | |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 aked 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 | |Cultural events |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | | |Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |Nozhai-Yurt district rich in |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |talents |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | | |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |traditions| music Preservation |he failed to do so. | |of peoples cultural traditions |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |and encouragement of talents, |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |abundant on Chechnyas soil, goes|the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |a long way in the restoration of|at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |normal life in Chechnya. |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |Nozhai-Yurt district is an |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |illustration for this. There are|afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |24 culture halls and 10 |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |club-houses in the district. |Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |Promotion of amateur art |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |activities is a priority. |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |Revival of these activities |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |started in 2000 with the concert|The third stage | |dedicated to the Victory Day and|The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |opening of the monument for |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | |fellow countrymen who perished |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | |in the Great Patriotic War. The |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | |concert brought together a |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | |meager of 18 amateur artists. |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | |Now, there are 4 to 5 study |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | |groups in each culture hall that|time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| |handle various trends of amateur|an attempt to unite mountain people too by concluding an | |art. Nozhai-Yurt is particularly|alliance between free Chechnya and feudal principalities of | |rich with singers. It gave birth|the North Caucasus. Beibulat Taimiev called for a peaceful | |to such distinguished artists of|solution to the conflict and wanted to avoid a big war with | |the Chechen stage as I. Usmanov,|Russia. His treacherous murder led to the escalation of | |T. Dadasheva, B. Elmurzaev and |military operations. | |M. Chakaraeva. They are giving |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |way to hopefuls like M. Abasova,|historyeng&row=2] (more about chechen history...) | |G. Telebitova, brothers Anasov | | |and sisters Dartsuev. Teachers | Chechen cuisine | |of the four schools of the | | |district are backup for culture |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |authorities. Schools regularly |traditions| music | |arrange reviews of amateur |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |artists to reveal talented |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |youths. The locals love their |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |artists and gladly visit their |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |concerts. They express their |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |love for art by following |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Chechen tradition of mutual aid |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |and taking vigorous part in the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |restoration of ruined culture |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |halls, club-houses and |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |libraries. |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |cchronicleeng&row=1] more...) |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