The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 92 | | | 16.05.03 | |Medics of the Centre for | | |Disaster Medicine will help |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |victims of terrorist acts in | | |Chechnya |The Restoration of Transport Systemin Chechnya 16 May 2003 | | |The Restoration of Transport System in Chechnya | |Medics of the Centre for |Transport system in Chechnya is being restored promptly and | |Disaster Medicine will go to |gradually becomes part of Russia's transport network. Normal | |Makhachkala, Dagestan (republic |highway and railway communication between the republic and the| |in the North Caucasus bordering |country's other regions is being adjusted. In the middle of | |on Chechnya), to provide |April a central bus terminal was opened in the Zavodskoi | |assistance to the victims of |district of Grozny.It serves as the terminal for the capital's| |terrorist actions in Chechnya. |buses and buses which travel to other towns. From there | |RIA Novosti reports. According |Chechnya's residents can travel to western areas of the | |to the information department of|republic, neighbouring republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and | |the ministry, a Yak-42 plane of |Daghestan, Russia's Stavropol region and Moscow. Only recently| |the Emergencies Ministry will |fixed-route buses travelled from Grozny once a week. In | |take off from the Ramenskoye |addition, there was no permanent place for their departure | |airfield outside Moscow in the |which caused much trouble for passengers. From now on buses | |afternoon today. It will carry |will travel every day in keeping with a fixed schedule. What | |medics and a ton of medicines. |is also important for passengers and drivers is to have | |On May 12 a lorry loaded with |highways repaired. The restoration of highways and bridges has| |explosives was blown up in the |been stepped up in the republic.In March a car bridge across | |village of Znamenskoye in |the River Argun was put in exploitation, it is the biggest in | |Chechnya, killing 55 and |Chechnya--some 150 metres long. The cost of the reconstruction| |wounding 199 and destroying |work was some 3 million roubles, they were allocated from the | |houses, including the building |federal budget for the goal-oriented programme of Chechnya's | |of the FSB department and the |restoration. The bridge is of great importance not only for | |administration of the |Chechnya but also for Russia as a whole since it is part of | |Nadterechny District. On May 14 |the "Kavkaz" highway connecting cities of Roston-on-the Don | |a suicide terrorist woman blew |and Baku. Involved in the reconstruction and construction of | |herself up during a religious |highways in the republic are Chechen workers and builders from| |holiday in the Gudermes |other parts of Russia, as well as army railwaymen and army | |District, killing 18 and |engineers. Three army engineer batallions of Russia's various | |wounding 145. |military districts have restored 60 kilometres of highways, | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |mainly,in Chechnya's mountain regions since February. Those | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |roads were destroyed in last summer's flood. At present army | |more...) |engineers of the Defense Ministry are involved in the | | |reconstruction and construction of highways in the | |Deputy Chechen prime minister |Achkhoi-Martan and Grozny regions. Army railwaymen have | |calls for more resolute |restored over 20 kilometres of railways and 14 bridges. In | |crackdown on rebel leaders |addition , they clear off mines at railways and give them | | |technical service.Railway terminals are operating again in | |Deputy Chechen prime minister |Grozny and Gudermes, suburb trains go in keeping with the | |calls for more resolute |schedule, and a fast train bound from Grozny to Moscow carries| |crackdown on rebel leaders |passengers once in 6 days. Therefore, residents of the | |A Chechen government official |republic do not fell themselves isolated from the rest of | |stated that the elimination of |Russia any longer. | |all rebel leaders and the end of|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |sweep operations in the republic|(more News from Chechnya) | |will put an end to terrorist | | |attacks. "New terrorist attacks |15 May 2003 Iliskhan-yurt attack staged by three suicide | |are possible as long as rebel |bombers | |leaders are still active in |It has been established that the terrorist attack in a festive| |Chechnya. The presence of |crowd outside the Chechen village of Iliskhan-Yurt during a | |terrorist centers, including |religious holiday on Wednesday was carried out by three female| |foreign ones, will continue to |suicide bombers, Chechnya's acting President Akhad Kadyrov | |fuel tension in the republic," |told Itar-Tass in an interview. "Two of them were wearing | |Movsar Khamidov, a deputy |belts of explosives, and a third, a woman about 50 years old | |Chechen prime minister overseen |or so was acting as their organizer and curator. She died, | |security agencies, told |too," Kadyrov said. "The women said 'We are late, please let | |Interfax. At the same time, |us approach the podium' and tried to make their way towards | |Khamidov said that he "is |me. Earlier they had tried to approach the leader of | |surprised why operations" to |Chechnya's anti-extremist leader Ramzan Kadyrov (Akhmad | |eliminate Chechen separatists |Kadyrov's son - Tass)," the Chechen leader said. At this | |leaders, including Aslan |moment the explosion occurred. Kadyrov said the terrorist | |Maskhadov, Shamil Basayev and |attack killed 16 people, including the three terrorists. | |Ruslan Gelayev, "have proved |Seventy people were injured. Twenty six of them are in | |futile so far." He said that |hospital, including the Imam of the Gudermes district, who was| |rebels do not enjoy support |standing next to Kadyrov. The Chechen leader said the | |among the republic's population |terrorist attacks in Znamenskoye and Iliskhan-Yurt were part | |any longer, and if federal |of anti-Russian activities by international terrorist | |troops put an end to sweep |organizations. | |operations, these people will |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |disappear altogether. ([http:// |(more News from Chechnya) | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |15 May 2003 Federation Council speaker on terrorist acts in | | |Chechnya | | Chechen history |The terrorist acts in Chechnya are "links of the same chain, | | |the same old root of world terrorism," Federation Council | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|speaker Sergei Mironov disclosed to RIA Novosti. "They feed | | |from the same source," said the head of the parliament's upper| |To Reader |house. According to his words, the organizers of the terrorist| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |acts are discontent with the federal authorities' and the | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechen people's aspiration to build a peaceful life in the | |traditions| music |republic. "The terrorist acts are directed first and foremost | | |at civilians," the speaker believes. Three terrorist acts | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |committed in Chechnya over the past week killed approximately | |, a Russian territory which has |70 people and wounded more than 200. | |witnessed the most tragic events|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |over the past decade. The book |(more News from Chechnya...) | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is |The St. Petersburg Citizens Will DrinkMineral Water From | |very important, since a lack of |Chechnya 14 May 2003 The St. Petersburg Citizens Will Drink | |fresh and accurate information |Mineral Water From Chechnya | |about events in Chechnya |A Chechen delegation, headed by the republican administration | |generates many distorted |head Usman Musayev has paid an official visit to St. | |conceptions and rumours - both |Petersburg. This was a return visit in mid-March this year the| |within and outside Russia . For |delegation of St. Petersburg and of the Leningrad Region, led | |example, that Chechen society is|by Yuri Osipov, the administration head of St. Petersburgs | |allegedly inherently alien to |Primorsky District, visited Grozny. The participants in the | |Russia , that pro-Russian |talks in St. Petersburg, where the receiving side was | |elements in the republic are |represented by vice-governor Sergei Vetlugin, touched on a | |marginalised; and lastly, that |package of issues dealing with the realization of the earlier | |Russian power structures are |reached agreements, including an agreement on cooperation | |fighting the Chechen people, |between the two regions of the Russian Federation, signed on | |rather than armed bandit groups.|August 27th last year. Paramount attention at the talks was | |The reality, however, is that |paid to the organization of the Chechen childrens summer | |only with the return of the |vacations. Earlier the Primorsky District administration | |legitimate authorities are |invited 20 Chechen children to take rest in St. Petersburg, | |villages and towns being |and this year the number of vacationers is expected to top | |restored, children going to |400. Certain districts in St. Petersburg will receive children| |school for the first time in |from certain districts in Chechnya. For example, the Primorsky| |many years, and pensioners |District will serve as a host to children from Chechnyas | |receiving long-forgotten |Urus-Martan District and the Admiralteisky District to | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |children from the Gudermes District in Chechnya. Each group | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |will include 20 schoolchildren and 3 members of escort. | |referendum on a new Chechen |Besides , a decision was taken to assign quotas for the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen orphaned children in the Kronshtadt cadet corps and in| |and presidential elections. |the Military and Engineering Space Academy. St. Petersburg | |These votes will be held, |will continue offering humanitarian aid to Chechnya. Among the| |despite continued attempts by |immediate supplies are medicines and musical instruments. And | |bandit groups and their leaders |the well-known Chechen dance ensemble Vainakh and some others,| |to scupper the process of |including the childrens groups from Chechnya, will take part | |normalisation in the republic, |in the festivities in St. Petersburg. Besides, the agenda of | |the latest terrorist act being |the talks included some issues concerning the setting up of | |the bombing of the republican |joint ventures. Businessmen from St. Petersburg were | |government building. The war |interested in the possible supplies of mineral water from | |being waged by Chechen |Chechnya. This is high-quality water, and the only problem is | |separatists against federal |its transportation. The participants decided to resume the | |forces and more often than not |discussion of this and some other issues when St. Petersburgs | |against their own co-citizens is|governor Alexander Yakovlev goes to Chechnya after the | |by no means a "national |festivities to mark the citys 300th anniversary are over. And | |liberation struggle of the |in the meantime, says Vladimir Vetlugin, weve discussed a wide| |Chechen people", but an episode |range of issues and found common ground. | |in the overall offensive by |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |international terrorism on the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show |New Houses On the Ruins 13 May 2003 New Houses On the Ruins | |that being a part of the Russian|More than 21 billion roubles will be allotted from the Russian| |Federation in no way threatens |budget this year for the restoration of Chechnya s economy and| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|social sphere. Part of that money will be used for repair work| |identity, the free use of its |and for housing construction. As you know, first of all , | |own language, and preaching |people need homes for normal life, and during the former | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |hostilities many of the Chechen residents lost their homes. So| |during de facto "independence" |theres no surprise that today one of the top priorities in | |from Russia that the Chechen |rebuilding Chechnya is the revival of the construction | |people suffered a humanitarian |industry. Wide-scale construction works started in Chechnya in| |tragedy on an unprecedented |September of 2001, and now it is clear that the work done is | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|enormous: several dozen municipal apartment houses, schools, | |trade and plundering came to |medical centres, and agricultural facilities have been built | |form the economic basis of the |and re-built in Chechnya over a short period of time. In 2003 | |new regime, while chaos and war |active construction in Chechnya will continue. Paramount | |became the form of its political|attention will be paid to Grozny since 80 per cent of the | |existence. We want to emphasise |destruction is in the Chechen capital. 66 per cent of the city| |once more: Chechnya is part of |buildings have been destroyed there, and 28 out of these 66 | |Russia , geographically, |per cent cant be destroyed. One in three of its buildings | |politically and |should be built anew. But first of all it is necessary to do | |civilisation-wise. So a |difficult preparatory work: to estimate the damage done and to| |hypothetical triumph of radical |make the calculations. Buildings that cant be restored are | |Islamism on its territory would |demolished. Later undamaged bricks and concrete blocks will be| |be anti-historical. Such a |re-used. Specialists believe that 20 billion roubles are | |development would signify the |necessary for a complete restoration of the housing sector in | |establishment in the midst of |Grozny and that it will require not less than 7 years. The | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|federal government allots 600 million roubles every year for | |with all ensuing consequences |these purposes. More than enough building materials are | |for the international community.|necessary for the restoration and construction work in | |The corporate author - |Chechnya . Today bricks are in high demand. Partially, the | |journalists of the Russian |Grozny brickworks satisfies the republics needs in bricks. | |Information Agency Novosti - |This is not enough but the local brickworks is yet incapable | |have attempted to be as brief as|of producing more: most of all operations are now carried out | |possible on providing answers to|there by hand. Today imported materials, which are several | |the most-often aked questions |times more expensive than the ones produced in the republic, | |(above all posed by a foreign |are actively used in housing construction in Chechnya . But | |audience) about the Chechen |this situation is gradually changing. There are now plans to | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|build a plant producing building materials in Grozny . | |Chechnya : Questions and |Construction waste and parts of ruined buildings, which one | |Answers". It draws heavily on |can meet in large quantities in the Chechen capital, will | |information provided by various |serve as raw materials. A Spanish firm producing equipment for| |Russian ministries and |the production of decoration materials from waste plans to | |departments that in one or |take part in this project. The use of such technology will | |another way are involved in |make it possible to make the construction up to 2 to 3 times | |normalising life in the |faster and cheaper. | |republic. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russian Information Agency |(more News from Chechnya) | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | Chechen History | | | | | Russia - Chechnya |Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture a new book by a | | | young historian Zarema Ibragimova | |Russian regions to Chechnya | | | | | |The Russian Tver Region Gives a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Helping Hand to Chechnya |traditions| music | | |The Moscow publishing house PRAVDA has just released a book by| |The Russian Tver Region Gives a |a graduate of the Faculty of History of Chechen State | |HelpingHand to Chechnya At |University, Candidate of History, currently working on her | |present much effort is required |doctors degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the | |so that Chechnya could become |Russian Academy of Sciences, Zarema Ibragimova. The book is | |assimilated as part of the |entitled Chechen History: Politics, Economics, Culture and | |Russian Federation. This is the |focuses on Chechnyas history in the second half of the 19th | |opinion of Vladimir Platov, |century. It features facts that are based on hitherto | |governor of the Tver |inaccessible archive materials, kept stored in Moscow, St. | |region.After the referendum at |Petersbourg and Vladikavkaz. The author of the 500-page book | |which the Chechen people |with numerous illustrations and coloured supplementary sheets | |favoured peaceful life and |describes all aspects of the Chechen peoples life during the | |expressed their wish to live in |involved period in Chechen history, with efforts being made to| |the Russian Federation Russia's |reach a social and political settlement in Chechnya in the | |regions have stepped up their |wake of the Caucasus war, as well as to carry out a military, | |aid to Chechnya.And the Tver |judicial and land reform in Chechnya. The author also speaks | |region is not an exception.Last |at length about agricultural and industrial production and | |autumn special vehicles and |trade, as well as about efforts to promote Muslim and secular | |other equipment to extinguish |education. | |fires were delivered to Chechnya|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |from the Tver region. Late last |newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |year the region signed an | | |agreement on cooperation with | History of Russian-Chechen relations | |the Chechen Republic and the | | |republic's mission was opened in|The history of Russian-Chechen relations | |the regional centre, the city of|Chechen Republic: official site. Allabout Chechnya| news| | |Tver. The ties between the Tver |history| traditions| music | |Administration and the Chechen | | |Achkhoi-Martan region are the |The current conflict in Chechnya is largely rooted in the | |closest. Policemen from Tver do |history of Russian-Chechen relations, which include six | |their service in that region and|stages. | |in the Kurchaloi region of | | |Chechnya. Impressed by highly |The first stage | |professional service of the Tver|The first stage, which started in the middle of the 16th | |policemen the Achkhaloi-Martan |century and lasted until the end of the 17th century, was | |regional administation has sent |marked by a peaceful colonization of the region. That period | |a letter of thanks to the Tver |is characterized by vassal-allied forms of relations between | |governor. Recently officials of |Moscow tsars and elders of Chechen communities. Moscow was | |the Achkhoi-Martan |trying to expand its influence in the region by political and | |Administration visited Tver and |economic means mainly. The policy was a success and Chechen | |met with the governor. All |communities voluntarily (by signing agreements) announced | |issues of financial and other |recognition of the supreme power of the Moscow state. | |aid to the republic were |The second stage | |resolved to mutual advantage.The|The second stage, which lasted almost throughout the 18th | |governor of the Tver region |century, marks the beginning of Russia's open military | |Vladimir Platov is convinced |expansion to the North Caucasus. Under Peter I and then | |that no agreement can be made |Catherine II the doctrine of colonizing the mountain areas | |between the authorities and |prevalent. | |those who took part in terrorist|Though in 1781 oaths of allegiance were officially registered | |acts or prepared them. He fully |the voluntary submission of Chechen communities bordering on | |supports the Russian president's|Russian fortresses, the year 1785 marked the beginning of a | |policy of resolute struggle |powerful movement in Chechnya under the leadership of Sheikh | |against terrorism. Yet the Tver |Mansur. That was when Chechen people launched an armed | |governor believes this struggle |struggle for freedom and independence. Sheikh Mansur was the | |should be supplemented with |first to make an attempt (still popular nowadays) to unite | |measures to normalise the |peoples of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state. But| |situation in the republic:the |he failed to do so. | |population should be given the |The anti-colonial movement started in Chechnya by highlanders | |opportunity to work and provide |spread to other regions of the North Caucasus. Taking part in | |for their families. This is the |the resistance were mainly the lower strata . As for the rich,| |only way to return to normal the|at first they tried to use the peasants movement to | |situation in the republic. The |consolidate their power in the mountain communities and | |Tver region has just begun |restore freedom of choice in relations with Moscow. Soon | |rendering help to Chechnya, and |afterwards, they got scared of the growing anti-feudal | |,no doubt, it will continue to |movement of Sheikh Mansur and in a number of cases even joined| |contribute to this end. |Russian troops to suppress the mutinous peasants. The first | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |imam of North Caucasian highlanders fought tsarist troops for | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |about six years, but suffered defeat. Sheikh Mansur was | |sregeng&row=1] more...) |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