The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 94 | | | 22.05.03 | |State Duma adopts a draft | | |resolution on amnesty in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Chechnya | | | |Police contributing to Chechnyas restoration 22 May 2003 | |The Lower House of the Russian |Police contributing to Chechnyas restoration | |parliament, the State Duma has |Shamil Magomayev was appointed chief of the Argun city police | |passed in the first reading a |department fairly recently, soon after the constitutional | |draft resolution on the |referendum in Chechnya. He says he likes his new job and the | |declaration of amnesty in |people he works with. He feels that although far from all | |Chechnya in view of the adoption|Argun policemen can boast advanced theoretical knowledge, | |of the republics constitution. |everybody has impeccable practical skills. They are equally | |The number of votes needed to |good at handling arms, vehicles or communication facilities. | |adopt the resolution was 226 but|But, perhaps, the main thing is that they are eager to work | |354 deputies supported the |and fear nothing. Small wonder then that the police department| |document and 18 voted against |has been successfully coping with the tasks assigned. Shamil | |while 4 abstained. Amnesty will |Magomayev says the crime situation in the city has largely | |be granted to both Chechen |improved as a result of these efforts and he feels it will | |militants and Russian servicemen|continue to improve. The Argun population is fully aware of | |who involved in the |the importance of an effective police force and has been | |anti-terrorist operation in |offering policemen whatever assistance they can. There is | |Chechnya. The resolution takes |perfect interaction between police and elders, as well as | |effect when it is published in |between police and muftis. The city police chief comes to the | |newspapers. Under the Russian |mosque every day of prayer to talk with the believers, answer | |constitution the Lower House |their questions and offer explanations for the problems they | |enjoys the right of declaration |may have. Some of the believers act as mediators for rebel | |of amnesty. The draft resolution|fighters who want to give up their criminal activities and | |was put forward to the Lower |return to peaceful life. Shamil Magomayev says his policemen | |House by the Russian President |are prepared to extend a helping hand to the fighters who plan| |who have the right make |surrender to the authorities and lay down their arms. The | |legislative initiatives. |police department chief says his basic objective is to enforce| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |law and order in full in Argun. To bring this about, he says, | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |we need help from civilians. While policemen, for their part, | |more...) |will always protect and defend them from any attack by any | | |gangsters or fighters. | |Up to one thousand people will |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |be granted amnesty in Chechnya |(more News from Chechnya) | | | | |Up to one thousand people, |The Chechen State University Becomesthe Republic's | |including 300 Russian servicemen|Educational, Scientific and Cultural Centre 21 May 2003 The | |will be granted amnesty. The |Chechen State University Becomes the Republic's Educational, | |Russian Presidents envoy at |Scientific and Cultural Centre | |parliament Alexander Kotenkov |The Chechen State University has got accreditation of the | |stated this when the bill |Russian Ministry of Education. So,it has confirmed its status | |introduced by Vladimir Putin was|of the country's leading institution of higher learning. Today| |debated. He said that the exact |the Chechen State University enrols 10,000 students, it is | |figure of militants is unknown |staffed with 620 teachers, including 30 professors and 150 | |since many people were |candidates of science. The University building has been | |sentenced. |repaired and equipped with all neccesary equipment. Say, the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |university has got over 250 computers and laboratory | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |equipment.At present the university's library is being | |more...) |restored, once it contained over a milllion books. Yet much | | |has still to be done to turn the Chechen university into a | | Chechen history |genuine educational, scientific and cultural centre of the | | |republic. The main role in this belongs to the Foundation for | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|the university's restoration which was set up in 2002. The | | |idea of creating such foundation appeared during a meeting | |To Reader |between the president of the World Council of ex-Foreign | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Ministers Alexander Bessmertnykh and the UNESCO Secretary | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||General Koishira Matsuura. The restoration of Chechnya's | |traditions| music |educational system was also discussed during president | | |Vladimir Putin's meeting with the UNESCO Secretary General. | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |The Foundation for the university's restoration has already | |, a Russian territory which has |done a lot. According to the foundation's vice-president Vakha| |witnessed the most tragic events|Ilyasov who is responsible for international relations, what | |over the past decade. The book |matters most today is to finish compiling the university's | |is the latest update on the |library; the president of the Moscow Industrial Bank helped to| |Chechen Republic . And this is |buy modern equipment for the language laboratory.Shortly | |very important, since a lack of |didactic material for natural science laboratories will be | |fresh and accurate information |delivered from the UNESCO headquarters. Russia's intellectual | |about events in Chechnya |circles are also contributing to the revival of the Chechen | |generates many distorted |university.The university has already signed agreements on | |conceptions and rumours - both |cooperation with a number of institutes of Russia, other | |within and outside Russia . For |Commonwealth states and foreign countries.Vakha Ilyasov says | |example, that Chechen society is|that the main task is the university's integration into the | |allegedly inherently alien to |Russian and international systems of education. In 2002 the | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Chechen university joined the Euro-Asian Association of | |elements in the republic are |Universities,talks are under way on the university's joining | |marginalised; and lastly, that |the World Association of Universities with the headquarters in| |Russian power structures are |Paris. On May 22, the Chechen university will be the venue of | |fighting the Chechen people, |a graduates conference to discuss matters pertaining to the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|university's revival. | |The reality, however, is that |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |only with the return of the |(more News from Chechnya) | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being |20 May 2003 State Duma Due to Consider Amnesty Issue in | |restored, children going to |Chechnya on May 21st | |school for the first time in |The Parliaments Lower House, State Duma, will consider the | |many years, and pensioners |Russian Presidents project on amnesty in view of the adoption | |receiving long-forgotten |of the Chechen Constitution at a plenary session on May 21st. | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |According to the Chairman of the State Dumas legislation | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |committee Pavel Krasheninnikov, the decision has been reached | |referendum on a new Chechen |at a meeting of the State Duma Council. | |constitution, and parliamentary |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |and presidential elections. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of | Russia - Chechnya | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being | Ingushetia prays for stability in Chechnya | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen |Ingushetia prays for stability in Chechnya | |separatists against federal |Ingushetia playing host to thousands of displayed Chechens | |forces and more often than not |remains in the center of attention of many International | |against their own co-citizens is|social and humanitarian organizations and at meetings between | |by no means a "national |republican leaders and officials of those bodies the issue of | |liberation struggle of the |how best to assist the displaced in Ingushetia is a constant | |Chechen people", but an episode |topic of discussion. The focus is on how to make such help | |in the overall offensive by |more effective, concrete and targeted. There are at present 50| |international terrorism on the |humanitarian missions in Ingushetia out of which Doctors | |fundamental principles of modern|without borders organization is the most active. Of course | |civilisation. The facts show |republican leaders are not just on-lookers and despite all the| |that being a part of the Russian|difficulties facing the people and the government because of | |Federation in no way threatens |the huge influx of refugees and in spite of no extra budget | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|financing Ingushetia is doing everything possible to lighten | |identity, the free use of its |the suffering of the displaced. Until quite recently the | |own language, and preaching |numbers of displaced people from Chechnya and North Osetia on | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |the territory of Ingushetia were close to 200 thousand but now| |during de facto "independence" |the numbers have been brought down to 64 thousand Chechens and| |from Russia that the Chechen |ten thousand from North Osetia. Eighteen and a half thousand | |people suffered a humanitarian |displaced Chechens continue to live in tent towns but they | |tragedy on an unprecedented |receive medical care supported by a network of drug stores. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Schools are also operating. In recent times people have | |trade and plundering came to |gradually been returning home since they believe that peace | |form the economic basis of the |will one day be restored in Chechnya It is vital that such a | |new regime, while chaos and war |trust is nurtured and helped because it will go a long way in | |became the form of its political|stabilizing the situation and assisting in repatriating the | |existence. We want to emphasise |displaced back to their original homes.In this connection and | |once more: Chechnya is part of |as emphasized by the Ingush president Murat Zyazikov the | |Russia , geographically, |direct address by Russian president Vladimir Putin to the | |politically and |people has had a huge significance. President Zyazikov | |civilisation-wise. So a |believes that each displaced person returning home should be | |hypothetical triumph of radical |given a specified amount of money to build a house and to | |Islamism on its territory would |begin to live afresh. It should be stressed that only people | |be anti-historical. Such a |voluntarily and freely willing to go back home should be | |development would signify the |helped to do so There must be no switching off of electricity | |establishment in the midst of |and gas in tent towns to compel the displaced to go back to | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|their homes. | |with all ensuing consequences |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |for the international community.|newineng&row=3] in detail ...) | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | Chechen tarditions | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as|"Nokhchallah," the chechen character "Nokhchallah," the | |possible on providing answers to|chechencharacter | |the most-often aked questions | | |(above all posed by a foreign |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |audience) about the Chechen |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |Chechnya : Questions and |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |Answers". It draws heavily on |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |information provided by various |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |Russian ministries and |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |departments that in one or |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |another way are involved in |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |normalising life in the |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |republic. |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |Russian Information Agency |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |Novosti |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |=eng] in detail ...) |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | | |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | | Chechen economics |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| | |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |The Restoration of Transport |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |System in Chechnya |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | | |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |The Russian Tver Region Gives a |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |HelpingHand to Chechnya |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |Transport system in Chechnya is |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |being restored promptly and |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |gradually becomes part of |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |Russia's transport network. |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |Normal highway and railway |horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |communication between the |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |republic and the country's other|walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |regions is being adjusted. In |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |the middle of April a central |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |bus terminal was opened in the |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |Zavodskoi district of Grozny.It |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |serves as the terminal for the |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |capital's buses and buses which |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |travel to other towns. From |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |there Chechnya's residents can |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |travel to western areas of the |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |republic, neighbouring republics|she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |of Kabardino-Balkaria and |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |Daghestan, Russia's Stavropol |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |region and Moscow. Only recently|she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |fixed-route buses travelled from|anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |Grozny once a week. In addition,|woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |there was no permanent place for|the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |their departure which caused |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |much trouble for passengers. |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |From now on buses will travel |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |every day in keeping with a |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |fixed schedule. What is also |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |important for passengers and |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |drivers is to have highways |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |repaired. The restoration of |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |highways and bridges has been |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |stepped up in the republic.In |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |March a car bridge across the |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |River Argun was put in |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |exploitation, it is the biggest |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |in Chechnya--some 150 metres |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |long. The cost of the |feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |reconstruction work was some 3 |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |million roubles, they were |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |allocated from the federal |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |budget for the goal-oriented |a condensed formula of a Chechen way of life. | |programme of Chechnya's |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=noheng& | |restoration. The bridge is of |row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |great importance not only for | | |Chechnya but also for Russia as |## | |a whole since it is part of the | | |"Kavkaz" highway connecting |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |cities of Roston-on-the Don and | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Baku. Involved in the | | |reconstruction and construction | | |of highways in the republic are | | |Chechen workers and builders | | |from other parts of Russia, as | | |well as army railwaymen and army| | |engineers. Three army engineer | | |batallions of Russia's various | | |military districts have restored| | |60 kilometres of highways, | | |mainly,in Chechnya's mountain | | |regions since February. Those | | |roads were destroyed in last | | |summer's flood. At present army | | |engineers of the Defense | | |Ministry are involved in the | | |reconstruction and construction | | |of highways in the | | |Achkhoi-Martan and Grozny | | |regions. Army railwaymen have | | |restored over 20 kilometres of | | |railways and 14 bridges. In | | |addition , they clear off mines | | |at railways and give them | | |technical service.Railway | | |terminals are operating again in| | |Grozny and Gudermes, suburb | | |trains go in keeping with the | | |schedule, and a fast train bound| | |from Grozny to Moscow carries | | |passengers once in 6 days. | | |Therefore, residents of the | | |republic do not fell themselves | | |isolated from the rest of Russia| | |any longer. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |economeng&row=1] more...) | | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | =eng] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com