The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 90 | | | 08.05.03 | |State council can be formed in | | |Chechnya in the end of May |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A state council can be formed in|'Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Chechnya in the end of May, |history| traditions| music' 08 May 2003 Grozny garment | |Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the |factory is doing well | |Chechen administration, |A garment factory opened in Grozny last January. It has a work| |believes. He said this to |force of 150, mostly women. Many employees are professional | |Itar-Tass. "This question has |garment workers who used to sew for tailor's shops and the | |not yet been finally settled," |Fashion Studio of Grozny. There are, among them, younger | |he admitted, adding that |people who are only learning the secrets of their trade. More | |"permanent work" in this |hands will be hired with the opening of new shops, in the very| |direction is being done with the|near future. Factory director Salvadi Shaikhiyev thinks he | |chiefs of administrations. |will soon have a staff of 200. Eventually, the garment factory| |Certain financial problems do |will open shop in various parts of Chechnya. Two subsidiaries | |exist, because "such a structure|are already functioning: one in Grozny, the other in | |is not provided for in the |Nozhai-Yurt. Their machinery has been bought in Rostov Region.| |federal budget." Answering |And it is from Rostov's city of Shakhty that the factory is | |questions, Kadyrov said that "no|getting fabric for bed linen, army fatigues, doctors' gowns | |structural changes" in the |and women's clothing. The factory needs 2000 meters of fabric | |Chechen leadership are expected |a day. It has sealed business agreements with a number of | |in the near future. They may |customers, including the republican ministry of health care, | |take place with time, he |to sell what it produces. It ships part of what it produces to| |admitted. According to Akhmad |other parts of the Russian Federation. | |Kadyrov, "there is a desire" to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |create in Chechnya "two |(more News from Chechnya) | |apparatuses, governmental and | | |that of the acting president." |Chechen Republic: official site. All about Chechnya| news| | |But, the creation of such |history|traditions| music 07 May 2003 Russia-OSCE | |structures is also linked to |co-operation in the field of Chechen affairs is progressing | |financial problems, because |We hope that the OSCE will seriously consider the | |means for such structural units |opportunities of practical support for the measures | |"have not been provided for in |implemented in the Chechen Republic. Russia is ready to | |the federal budget, either." |consider particular projects of co-operation in the specified | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |fields, Alexander Grushko, director of the European | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Co-operation Board of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in a | |more...) |RIA Novosti interview. Organisation's experience can be useful| | |in assistance with organisation of elections, development of | |Georgian State Security Ministry|the judicial system, maintaining law and order, socio-economic| |refutes Al-Qaeda bases in |development, including assistance with the return of the | |Pankisi Gorge |relocatees, development of minor and medium business and | | |support of local media. OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya | |The Georgian State Security |ceased to exist. However, the discontinuation of its work does| |Ministry denies the French |not mean ceasing our co-operation with the OSCE on the Chechen| |Interior Minister's statement |issues. Quite on the contrary, Grushko told. The OSCE went to | |that functional centres of the |the Chechen Republic twice this March to take part in the | |Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation |international observers' mission at the constitution | |are located in the Pankisi |referendum. We highly appreciate this participation and see it| |Gorge, RIA Novosti reports. |as the OSCE support for the efforts aimed at restoring | |"Tbilisi has a better view of |peaceful life in Chechnya. OSCE ambassador in Kosovo Daan | |the Pankisi situation than Paris|Everts came to Moscow in late April. We held thorough | |does," Valery Khaburzania, |consultations with him at the Russian Foreign Ministry and | |Georgian State Security |arranged a special meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the | |Minister, bluntly told |Chechen Republic Nikolai Aidinov. We also invited Christian | |journalists on Wednesday. |Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions | |However, he presented no facts |and Human Rights, one of the oldest specialised OSCE | |on the matter. As it is known, |institutions whose purposes include assistance to the OSCE | |at Monday's meeting of G8 |member-states with preparing and carrying out elections. We | |interior and justice ministers |expect an informative and profound conversation, Grushko told.| |in Paris French Minister of the |According to him, "Russia's co-operation with the OSCE in the | |Interior Nicolas Sarkozy said |Chechen direction continues to develop." In his opinion, it is| |that Al-Qaeda functional centres|based on two main aspects. "First, the real needs of the | |might have been moved from |Chechen republic and the goals set in the federal target | |Afghanistan to Chechnya and |program Rehabilitation of the Economy and the Social Sphere of| |Georgia. |the Chechen Republic. Second, the OSCE's capabilities, rich | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |experience, expertise accumulated over the history of this | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |important international organisation," said the director of | |more...) |the ministerial board. "I'm sure that our co-operation will be| | |successful and efficient," said Grushko. | | Chechen history |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| | | |Chechnya Prepares For Victory Day 07 May 2003 Chechnya | |To Reader |Prepares For Victory Day | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Chechnya will be widely celebrating Victory Day. 760 veterans | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||of the Great Patriotic War living in the republic will get | |traditions| music |presents. According to Chechnyas Deputy Labor Minister Imran | | |Iriskhanov, various regions and residential areas will host | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |festive celebrations in honor of war participants. On May 9th | |, a Russian territory which has |eight veterans will obtain small cars Oka. In Grozny the | |witnessed the most tragic events|republics military commandment office and the Russian federal | |over the past decade. The book |force command will organize a military parade on the occasion.| |is the latest update on the |According to regional administrator Akhmet Abastov, in | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Chechnyas second largest city of Gudermes, war veterans will | |very important, since a lack of |stage a rally. Festal tables will be laid for them. In Shatoi | |fresh and accurate information |district war veterans are everyones darlings these days. | |about events in Chechnya |Deputy administrator Ruslan Demelkhanov says if such | |generates many distorted |opportunity occurs, veterans will the first ones to have their| |conceptions and rumours - both |homes restored. On May 9th they all will get precious | |within and outside Russia . For |presents. In Nozhai-Urt district the war veterans will gain | |example, that Chechen society is|memorable gifts and some money. The celebrations will bring | |allegedly inherently alien to |together the leaders of all organizations and enterprises, | |Russia , that pro-Russian |including those of the Social Service Center. Officials of the| |elements in the republic are |latter regularly visit veterans and help them keep household. | |marginalised; and lastly, that |The local hospitals chief physician personally supervises how | |Russian power structures are |to provide the veterans with medical care and medicines. On | |fighting the Chechen people, |May 9th light-hearted celebration will take place in Shaloi | |rather than armed bandit groups.|district as well. Every war veteran will get presents. Allied | |The reality, however, is that |Victory over Nazism marked on May the 9th will become a | |only with the return of the |remarkable holiday for Chechnyas both veterans and all | |legitimate authorities are |residents. | |villages and towns being |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |restored, children going to |(more News from Chechnya) | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners |Nozhai-Yurt district rich in talents 06 May 2003 Nozhai-Yurt | |receiving long-forgotten |district rich in talents | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Preservation of peoples cultural traditions and encouragement | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |of talents, abundant on Chechnyas soil, goes a long way in the| |referendum on a new Chechen |restoration of normal life in Chechnya. Nozhai-Yurt district | |constitution, and parliamentary |is an illustration for this. There are 24 culture halls and 10| |and presidential elections. |club-houses in the district. Promotion of amateur art | |These votes will be held, |activities is a priority. Revival of these activities started | |despite continued attempts by |in 2000 with the concert dedicated to the Victory Day and | |bandit groups and their leaders |opening of the monument for fellow countrymen who perished in | |to scupper the process of |the Great Patriotic War. The concert brought together a meager| |normalisation in the republic, |of 18 amateur artists. Now, there are 4 to 5 study groups in | |the latest terrorist act being |each culture hall that handle various trends of amateur art. | |the bombing of the republican |Nozhai-Yurt is particularly rich with singers. It gave birth | |government building. The war |to such distinguished artists of the Chechen stage as I. | |being waged by Chechen |Usmanov, T. Dadasheva, B. Elmurzaev and M. Chakaraeva. They | |separatists against federal |are giving way to hopefuls like M. Abasova, G. Telebitova, | |forces and more often than not |brothers Anasov and sisters Dartsuev. Teachers of the four | |against their own co-citizens is|schools of the district are backup for culture authorities. | |by no means a "national |Schools regularly arrange reviews of amateur artists to reveal| |liberation struggle of the |talented youths. The locals love their artists and gladly | |Chechen people", but an episode |visit their concerts. They express their love for art by | |in the overall offensive by |following Chechen tradition of mutual aid and taking vigorous | |international terrorism on the |part in the restoration of ruined culture halls, club-houses | |fundamental principles of modern|and libraries. | |civilisation. The facts show |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |that being a part of the Russian|(more News from Chechnya) | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|05 May 2003 ase hearings on kidnapping of member of Doctors | |identity, the free use of its |without Borders mission starts | |own language, and preaching |The Rostov Regional Court (the south of Russia) starts | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |hearings of the case of the kidnapping of Kenneth Cluck, a | |during de facto "independence" |member of the Doctors without Borders mission in the territory| |from Russia that the Chechen |of the Chechen Republic in 2001. The RIA Novosti correspondent| |people suffered a humanitarian |was told about it by press secretary of the court Konstantin | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Miroshnichenko. According to him, Magomed Gakayev and Ayub | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Katayev appear before the court. They are accused of | |trade and plundering came to |complicity in the kidnapping. According to the materials of | |form the economic basis of the |the investigation, the crime was organised and carried out by | |new regime, while chaos and war |a group, which was headed by Abubakar Zhumayev, who was | |became the form of its political|eliminated in the course of the anti-terrorist operation in | |existence. We want to emphasise |February of 2002. Kenneth Cluck was kidnapped on January 9th, | |once more: Chechnya is part of |2001 and was kept for a month. | |Russia , geographically, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |politically and |(more News from Chechnya...) | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | Chechen History | |development would signify the | | |establishment in the midst of |Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture a new book by a | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| young historian Zarema Ibragimova | |with all ensuing consequences | | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |journalists of the Russian |traditions| music | |Information Agency Novosti - |The Moscow publishing house PRAVDA has just released a book by| |have attempted to be as brief as|a graduate of the Faculty of History of Chechen State | |possible on providing answers to|University, Candidate of History, currently working on her | |the most-often aked questions |doctors degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the | |(above all posed by a foreign |Russian Academy of Sciences, Zarema Ibragimova. The book is | |audience) about the Chechen |entitled Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture and | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|focuses on Chechnyas history in the second half of the 19th | |Chechnya : Questions and |century. It features facts that are based on hitherto | |Answers". It draws heavily on |inaccessible archive materials, kept stored in Moscow, St. | |information provided by various |Petersbourg and Vladikavkaz. The author of the 500-page book | |Russian ministries and |with numerous illustrations and coloured supplementary sheets | |departments that in one or |describes all aspects of the Chechen peoples life during the | |another way are involved in |involved period in Chechen history, with efforts being made to| |normalising life in the |reach a social and political settlement in Chechnya in the | |republic. |wake of the Caucasus war, as well as to carry out a military, | |Russian Information Agency |judicial and land reform in Chechnya. The author also speaks | |Novosti |at length about agricultural and industrial production and | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |trade, as well as about efforts to promote Muslim and secular | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|education. | |=eng] in detail ...) |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |Chechen culture | | | | History of Russian-Chechen relations | |Cultural events | | | |The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |Nozhai-Yurt district rich in |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |talents |history| traditions| music | | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |traditions| music Preservation |stages. | |of peoples cultural traditions | | |and encouragement of talents, |The first stage | |abundant on Chechnyas soil, goes|The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |a long way in the restoration of|century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |normal life in Chechnya. |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |Nozhai-Yurt district is an |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |illustration for this. There are|Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |24 culture halls and 10 |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |club-houses in the district. |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |Promotion of amateur art |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |activities is a priority. |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |Revival of these activities |The second stage | |started in 2000 with the concert|The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |dedicated to the Victory Day and|century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |opening of the monument for |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |fellow countrymen who perished |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |in the Great Patriotic War. The |prevalent. | |concert brought together a |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |meager of 18 amateur artists. |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |Now, there are 4 to 5 study |Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |groups in each culture hall that|powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |handle various trends of amateur|Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |art. Nozhai-Yurt is particularly|struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |rich with singers. It gave birth|first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |to such distinguished artists of|peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |the Chechen stage as I. Usmanov,|he failed to do so. | |T. Dadasheva, B. Elmurzaev and |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |M. Chakaraeva. They are giving |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |way to hopefuls like M. Abasova,|the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |G. Telebitova, brothers Anasov |at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |and sisters Dartsuev. Teachers |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |of the four schools of the |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |district are backup for culture |afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |authorities. Schools regularly |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |arrange reviews of amateur |Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |artists to reveal talented |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |youths. The locals love their |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |artists and gladly visit their |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | |concerts. They express their |The third stage | |love for art by following |The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | |Chechen tradition of mutual aid |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | |and taking vigorous part in the |term as Commander of the Russian army in the Caucasus | |restoration of ruined culture |(1816-1827) military pressure intensifies as Russian troops | |halls, club-houses and |continue to advance deep into Chechnya. Chechnya responds by | |libraries. |stepping up its resistance movement, which, for more than 30 | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |years, was headed by Beibulat Teimiev. Teimiev for the first | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |time managed to unite most of Chechen communities. And he made| |cchronicleeng&row=1] more...) |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