The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 91 | | | 13.05.03 | |Prosecutors establish suspects | | |in Monday terrorist attack in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Chechnya | | | |New Houses On the Ruins 13 May 2003 New Houses On the Ruins | |The Russian Prosecutor General's|More than 21 billion roubles will be allotted from the Russian| |Office has established the |budget this year for the restoration of Chechnya s economy and| |suspects in Monday's terrorist |social sphere. Part of that money will be used for repair work| |attack in Znamenskoye in |and for housing construction. As you know, first of all , | |Chechnya's Nadterechny district,|people need homes for normal life, and during the former | |Russian Deputy Prosecutor |hostilities many of the Chechen residents lost their homes. So| |General Sergei Fridinsky told |theres no surprise that today one of the top priorities in | |Interfax on Tuesday. "We have |rebuilding Chechnya is the revival of the construction | |established several suspects, |industry. Wide-scale construction works started in Chechnya in| |and investigation to detect and |September of 2001, and now it is clear that the work done is | |detain them is in progress," he |enormous: several dozen municipal apartment houses, schools, | |said. Fridinsky refrained from |medical centres, and agricultural facilities have been built | |naming the suspects. Asked |and re-built in Chechnya over a short period of time. In 2003 | |whether the Monday explosion |active construction in Chechnya will continue. Paramount | |could have been organized by the|attention will be paid to Grozny since 80 per cent of the | |same people who committed the |destruction is in the Chechen capital. 66 per cent of the city| |terrorist attack near the |buildings have been destroyed there, and 28 out of these 66 | |Chechen government headquarters |per cent cant be destroyed. One in three of its buildings | |last December, killing 70 |should be built anew. But first of all it is necessary to do | |people, Fridinsky replied: "No, |difficult preparatory work: to estimate the damage done and to| |these are different people, |make the calculations. Buildings that cant be restored are | |although there is a certain link|demolished. Later undamaged bricks and concrete blocks will be| |between them." |re-used. Specialists believe that 20 billion roubles are | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |necessary for a complete restoration of the housing sector in | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Grozny and that it will require not less than 7 years. The | |more...) |federal government allots 600 million roubles every year for | | |these purposes. More than enough building materials are | |Chechen leadership wants housing|necessary for the restoration and construction work in | |allowances doubled |Chechnya . Today bricks are in high demand. Partially, the | | |Grozny brickworks satisfies the republics needs in bricks. | |The Chechen leadership is |This is not enough but the local brickworks is yet incapable | |proposing increasing the |of producing more: most of all operations are now carried out | |compensation allowance for loss |there by hand. Today imported materials, which are several | |of housing in Chechnya as a |times more expensive than the ones produced in the republic, | |result of war from 240,000 |are actively used in housing construction in Chechnya . But | |rubles to 430,000 rubles per |this situation is gradually changing. There are now plans to | |family, the Russian minister for|build a plant producing building materials in Grozny . | |Chechnya said on Monday. "These |Construction waste and parts of ruined buildings, which one | |proposals will be given |can meet in large quantities in the Chechen capital, will | |consideration. The commission |serve as raw materials. A Spanish firm producing equipment for| |members consider them quite |the production of decoration materials from waste plans to | |realistic," Stanislav Ilyasov |take part in this project. The use of such technology will | |told Interfax after a meeting of|make it possible to make the construction up to 2 to 3 times | |the commission for state |faster and cheaper. | |assistance to people who have |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |lost their housing. He said a |(more News from Chechnya) | |report on the commission meeting| | |would be put before Prime |13 May 2003 U.S. for ending terrorist acts on Chechen | |Minister Mikhail Kasyanov before|territory | |May 15. "The government order |The George Bush Administration strongly condemns the terrorist| |should come out before the end |act committed by suicide bombers in Chechnya and expresses | |of May in order to start |profound condolences to the relations of those who died in the| |accepting applications from |explosion, an official spokeswoman of the U.S. State | |citizens in August and start |Department told RIA Novosti. It is believed in the U.S. | |payment in September or |Administration, she said, that the actions of the terrorists | |October," Ilyasov said. He said |were designed to disrupt the peace process started by the | |lists of people whose housing is|referendum in Chechnya. The U.S. is for ending terrorist acts | |beyond repair would be finalized|on Chechen territory, State Department spokeswoman said. | |by July 1. Today 39,000 families|According to her, the Bush Administration supports the actions| |are considered to have housing |to achieve stable peace in Chechnya. A Chechen suicide | |that is impossible to restore |terrorist blew up a truck loaded with explosives Monday | |and 9,000 families are listed as|morning. According to the latest information, 47 people died | |having damaged housing. |and over 100 were wounded in the explosion. | |Altogether 280,000 people are |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |considered in need of housing. |(more News from Chechnya) | |Ilyasov said it was planned to | | |pay half the compensation |13 May 2003 Council of Europe denounced terrorist act in | |allowances before this year and |Znamenskoye | |the rest next year. More than 20|The Council of Europe members have denounced the terrorist act| |billion rubles is needed for the|in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye that resulted in | |purpose, he said. |numerous casualties, RIA Novosti reports."The civilised world | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |feels only despise towards those who blindly use violence | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |against innocent people to achieve their political goals, " | |more...) |said Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of | | |Europe (PACE) Peter Schieder. "For years the Chechen | | Chechen history |population has seen only war and destruction. Today it desires| | |nothing but peace and a better, more stable future," he | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|pointed out. The only way to achieve this is to give up | | |violence, to start a political dialog and to respect human | |To Reader |rights, Schieder believes. The perpetrators of the terrorist | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |act in Znamenskoye acted against the interests and will of the| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechen people, he announced. Secretary General of the Council| |traditions| music |of Europe Walter Schwimmer in his turn recalled that it had | | |been in Znamenskoye that the Council's representatives | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |contributed to improving the situation with human rights | |, a Russian territory which has |during the last three years via the bureau of President | |witnessed the most tragic events|Putin's special envoy. "Znamenskoye is a place dear to our | |over the past decade. The book |hearts, as there the Council of Europe experts established | |is the latest update on the |both professional and personal links with local population," | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Schwimmer pointed out. "Organisers of such acts seriously | |very important, since a lack of |jeopardise aspirations of the Chechen people to build their | |fresh and accurate information |future in a stable and peaceful atmosphere," Gil-Robles said. | |about events in Chechnya |At the same time, "this should not stop the political process | |generates many distorted |and lead to disproportionate reaction," he believes. | |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 |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Russia , that pro-Russian |history| traditions| music 12 May 2003 Russias State | |elements in the republic are |Statistical Committee: The Census Returns Correspond to | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Reality | |Russian power structures are |Russias State Statistical Committee has made public the | |fighting the Chechen people, |results of the census taken in autumn 2002. According to the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|information obtained, the population of Chechnya makes up 1 | |The reality, however, is that |million 100,000. 223,000 people, including 120,400 women and | |only with the return of the |102,600 men, make their home in the capital city Grozny. The | |legitimate authorities are |census has put it in bold relief that Chechnya is one of | |villages and towns being |Russias nine regions where the female population largely | |restored, children going to |exceeds the male population. The deputy Chairman of the | |school for the first time in |Statistical Committee Sergey Kolesnikov said he knows of no | |many years, and pensioners |major infringements that would call into question the census | |receiving long-forgotten |results. The State Committee feels that the census returns are| |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |quite realistic. From 1993 any statistical data about Chechnya| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |was unavailable, but before that Chechens boasted one of the | |referendum on a new Chechen |highest birth rates in Russia. In 1997 the Government of | |constitution, and parliamentary |Ichkeria took its own census, but its hard to say whether it | |and presidential elections. |was correctly organized in terms of methodology. Following | |These votes will be held, |that census the Ichkeria Government said the population made | |despite continued attempts by |up 981,000. When compared with that figure the results of last| |bandit groups and their leaders |years census 1 million 100,000 look natural. This is also born| |to scupper the process of |out by the age structure of the republics population. In 1989 | |normalisation in the republic, |the age group under 17 accounted for 43% of the republics | |the latest terrorist act being |population, today the percentage is slightly under 42. | |the bombing of the republican |According to Kolesnikov, the republican branch of the State | |government building. The war |Statistical Committee can boast great progress in doing all | |being waged by Chechen |current routine work, following the process of economic | |separatists against federal |restoration, changes in the consumer price index and the rate | |forces and more often than not |of inflation. The Government-approved federal programme of | |against their own co-citizens is|statistical work has been and continues to be carried out in | |by no means a "national |full. | |liberation struggle of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Chechen people", but an episode |(more News from Chechnya...) | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the |Chechnyas Electoral Commission Is ImprovingIts Work 11 May | |fundamental principles of modern|2003 Chechnyas Electoral Commission Is Improving Its Work | |civilisation. The facts show |Some time ago Russias Central Electoral Commission held an out| |that being a part of the Russian|session in Nalchik, to sum up the results of the referendum on| |Federation in no way threatens |Chechnyas Constitution. The chairman of the Central Electoral | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|Commission Alexander Veshnyakov has highly praised the work of| |identity, the free use of its |Chechnyas electoral commission. Veshnyakov said that he shared| |own language, and preaching |the opinion of one of the foreign experts, who said on the day| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |of the referendum that all people living in Chechnya are | |during de facto "independence" |heroes. And that those who organized the referendum are double| |from Russia that the Chechen |heroes. The initiative belonged to Chechnyas residents, who | |people suffered a humanitarian |contributed immensely to the political settlement in the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |republic. Of importance today is to seal the former results, | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|fulfilling them with concrete content. It is also important to| |trade and plundering came to |honour all commitments, given before the referendum, to ensure| |form the economic basis of the |security and the correct work of the power ministries on the | |new regime, while chaos and war |Chechen territory, to pay compensations to those of the | |became the form of its political|Chechen residents, who lost their homes, and to settle amnesty| |existence. We want to emphasise |issues. Besides, it is necessary to work out a single stand on| |once more: Chechnya is part of |the date of governmental and parliamentary elections in | |Russia , geographically, |Chechnya. Organizationally, the presidential elections will be| |politically and |far more difficult than the referendum: there will be serious | |civilisation-wise. So a |rivalry between the candidates. The participants in the | |hypothetical triumph of radical |session agreed to work out, within the coming 3 to 4 months, a| |Islamism on its territory would |consolidated stand on the date of elections Russias President | |be anti-historical. Such a |will be later informed of. Besides, the participants said that| |development would signify the |it would very good, before the upcoming presidential and | |establishment in the midst of |parliamentary elections in Chechnya and ahead of the State | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|Duma elections, to restore order in the registration of | |with all ensuing consequences |voters. The preliminary figure before the referendum was | |for the international community.|537,000, while the factual number of voters was 577,000, as | |The corporate author - |became clear after the referendum. It is important to find out| |journalists of the Russian |whether the reason was an inaccurate registration or a large | |Information Agency Novosti - |number of voters on Ingushetias territory. That is why | |have attempted to be as brief as|analysis should be made and the whole system of registration | |possible on providing answers to|be amended somewhat. Serious attention should be also paid to | |the most-often aked questions |the commission membership. The foundations have already been | |(above all posed by a foreign |laid down, and what is necessary now are practical lessons. | |audience) about the Chechen |All members of electoral commissions must have a clear idea of| |issue. Hence the book's title: "|their rights and duties. Should the future be combined | |Chechnya : Questions and |elections, this will demand much more work. Such were the | |Answers". It draws heavily on |participants wishes. | |information provided by various |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russian ministries and |(more News from Chechnya) | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | Chechen History | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti |Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture a new book by a | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | young historian Zarema Ibragimova | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Chechen culture |traditions| music | | |The Moscow publishing house PRAVDA has just released a book by| |Cultural events |a graduate of the Faculty of History of Chechen State | | |University, Candidate of History, currently working on her | |Chechnya restores its libraries |doctors degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the | | |Russian Academy of Sciences, Zarema Ibragimova. The book is | |Chechnya restores its libraries |entitled Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture and | |Russias Ministry of Culture does|focuses on Chechnyas history in the second half of the 19th | |its best to acquire books for |century. It features facts that are based on hitherto | |Chechen libraries and upgrade |inaccessible archive materials, kept stored in Moscow, St. | |the professional level of |Petersbourg and Vladikavkaz. The author of the 500-page book | |Librarians. The librarians have |with numerous illustrations and coloured supplementary sheets | |been following special courses |describes all aspects of the Chechen peoples life during the | |at the Ministrys academy in the |involved period in Chechen history, with efforts being made to| |past three years. Last year ten |reach a social and political settlement in Chechnya in the | |librarians followed a course at |wake of the Caucasus war, as well as to carry out a military, | |the school of contemporary |judicial and land reform in Chechnya. The author also speaks | |library technology in the city |at length about agricultural and industrial production and | |of Belgorod. The experts at the |trade, as well as about efforts to promote Muslim and secular | |school developed special |education. | |programmes that made it possible|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |for them to get acquaintance |newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |quickly with advanced | | |information technology. | History of Russian-Chechen relations | |According to the chief expert of| | |the libraries department at the |The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |Ministry of Culture, Nadezhda |Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Shakhova, Chechen librarians |history| traditions| music | |were welcomed warmly in | | |Belgorod. Ministry plans to send|The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |Chechen librarians to Belgorod |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |annually. The main task at the |stages. | |moment is to supply libraries | | |with books. Many sources have |The first stage | |been engaged in this. Under the |The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |Russian government programme of |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |reconstruction of the Chechen |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |economy and social area the |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |republics libraries get books |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |form the central library. To |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |this end the Ministry of Culture|economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |in Chechnya spends money too. |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |The Moscow-based fund of |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |humanitarian assistance to |The second stage | |Chechnya also makes notable |The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |contribution. It organizes the |century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |collection of books from private|expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |citizens, public organizations |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |and educational and scientific |prevalent. | |establishments. The requests by |Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |the national library for books |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |that are later being distributed|Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |among the libraries in cities, |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |districts and departments show |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |that the demand for books on |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |economics, philosophy and |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |literature is high in the |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |republic. This is evidence that |he failed to do so. | |the people in the republic are |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |keen on acquiring knowledge. |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |cchronicleeng&row=1] more...) |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | | |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | | |afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | | |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| | |Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | | |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | | |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | | |captured in 1791 and died in the Schlusselburg Fortress. | | |The third stage | | |The third stage of Russian-Chechen relations falls on the | | |first half of the 19th century. During General A.P.Yermolov's | | |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