The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 95 | | | 27.05.03 | |Chechnya riot police get new | | |commander |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The new commander of Chechnya's |Chechnya reconnected to the North Caucasuselectricity grid 27 | |its riot police force took up |May 2003 Chechnya reconnected to the North Caucasus | |his duties. Before his |electricity grid | |appointment, career policeman |In a sign of normality taking hold, Chechnya raised its | |Ruslan Alkhanov was the chief |electricity consumption to 917 million kilowatt-hours last | |bodyguard to the head of the |year from 792 million in 2001. It took almost four years and | |Chechen administration, Akhmad |62 lives to lift the republic's electricity system from | |Kadyrov, and simultaneously |ultimate ruin to a condition in which it can again supply | |headed a Chechen Interior |power to all industries and all population centres in | |Ministry force guarding senior |Chechnya. As early as November 1999, repair teams from many | |officials. In an interview with |Russian regions reconnected Chechnya to electricity providers | |Interfax, Alkhanov argued that |in the region of Stavropol just to the north. By January 2003,| |keeping law and order in |they had successfully rebuilt 7,542 kilometres of power lines,| |Chechnya should primarily be the|74 high-voltage transformers, 1,810 low-voltage transformers | |task of the Chechen police. |and countless electricity maintenance facilities, including of| |"OMON (riot police) is a real |the companies 'Nurenergo' and 'Energosbyt' and of the district| |force, which can make a |electricity systems in the districts of Urus-Martan, Gudermes,| |breakthrough in crime prevention|Nadterechny and Nozhai-Yurt. They had also relaunched an | |in Chechnya," he said. His |electricity-generating unit at the Argun Thermal Power Plant. | |predecessor, Musa Gazimagomadov,|Reports say a second 6-megawatt unit is coming on stream later| |died early last month after a |this year. The relaunch of the power plant should meet the | |month of treatment in Moscow for|energy needs of all households and all industries in Argun -- | |injuries received in a road |including a sugar refinery, a construction combine and a big | |accident in Chechnya. According |meat processing factory. Adequate heat and electricity supply | |to Alkhanov, he is well familiar|should enable these industries to expand and create at least 3| |with any OMONers, and he is sure|thousand new jobs. The completion of an over 200-kilometre | |that they will begin working |high-voltage power line from Vladikavkaz to Chiriyurt, by way | |well from the very start. |of the Chechen capital Grozny, finally reconnects Chechnya and| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Dagestan to the overall electricity grid of the Russian | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Caucasus. The grid itself resumes operating in the way it did | |more...) |before the outbreak of the first Chechen war in 1994. CEO of | | |'Nurenergo' PLC Nurdin Usamov says his company plans to | |Explosive devices in trucks |acquire reserve distribution capacity and improve the | |destroyed Monday similar to |reliability of electricity supply. Plans for this year include| |those used in govt house bombing|the launch of a new 110-kilowatt distribution transformer in | |in Grozny |Grozny, the resurrection of some 500 smaller local | | |transformers and operations to upgrade to design 154 | |The two Kamaz trucks stopped on |kilometres of high-voltage power lines. Design work is in | |the border of Ingushetia and |progress on a 330-kilowatt distribution transformer for | |North Ossetia on May, 26 |Grozny. | |contained explosive devices |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |similar to the ones that |(more News from Chechnya) | |destroyed the Chechen government| | |house in Grozny late last year. |27 May 2003 Legislative Council intends to help Chechnya in | |A source in law enforcement told|form parliamentary system | |Interfax-Military News Agency |The Legislative Council comprised of heads of the Russian | |Monday night that a cursory |regional legislative assemblies /their total number being 89/ | |analysis of the traces of |intends to provide comprehensive assistance to Chechnya in | |explosives in the Kamaz trucks |forming its parliamentary system. At a meeting of the Council | |detonated by explosive disposal |presidium scheduled to take place in Moscow the participants | |specialists indicated that they |will discuss the issue, Vice Speaker of the Federation Council| |were identical to the ones in |/the Russian parliament's upper chamber/, executive secretary | |the truck that went off outside |of the Legislative Council Alexander Torshin informed RIA | |the government house. In both |Novosti. According to Torshin, it is necessary to create a | |cases, the bombs were made |two-chamber parliament in Chechnya. "Such parliamentary | |mainly from saltpeter, the |structure will allow the republic to develop and adopt the | |source said. The issue of |most important laws necessary to set up a power structure in | |opening a criminal case is being|Chechnya as soon as possible," he stressed. | |decided. It is most likely that |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |the case will be opened under |(more News from Chechnya...) | |two articles of the criminal | | |code: attempted terrorist attack|Employment 26 May 2003 Employment | |and illegal possession and |In one of his novels the great Russian writer Fyodor | |transportation of explosives. |Dostoyevsky wrote that the biggest punishment for a person is | |The North Caucasian department |forced idleness. Peaceful life is returning to Chechnya and | |of the Prosecutor General's |most Chechens are tired of forced unemployment and are in a | |office is in charge of the |hurry to find work. Though the problem of employment cannot be| |investigation. "The explosive |solved in a short period of time nonetheless the republican | |disposal specialists determined |department of labour and employment is actively tackling the | |that both vehicles were loaded |problem. Today the focus is on finding jobs for inhabitants of| |with explosives. As there had |Grozny, the capital. In contrast to other towns and populated | |been no information about a |areas in Chechnya inhabitants of Grozny are in an advantage | |remote control device, it was |since apart from the possibility of finding work through the | |decided to blow them up on |department of labour and employment they can look for work by | |site," Sergei Ignatchenko, the |themselves because new industries and enterprises are being | |spokesman for the service, has |constantly established in the capital requiring a large number| |told Interfax. "The explosion |of men and women workers. There are a few vacancies in the | |formed a crater similar to the |construction sector but chiefs of construction firms and | |one left by the recent terrorist|organizations usually employ skilled professionals and there | |attack in the Chechen district |are always long lines of people waiting to get a job in a | |center of Znamenskoye," he said.|construction site on a competitive basis. In the first quarter| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |of this year city enterprises offered 170 vacancies on a | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |competitive basis. Many inhabitants of Grozny are prepared to | |more...) |accept any job including the menial in order to feed their | | |family and those are the people snapping up available | | Chechen history |vacancies related to temporary employment for the tidying up | | |of the capital. Such people are engaged in cleaning the | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|streets of rubbish, planting trees, creating public parks and | | |gardens. Shortly there will be a pay rise for all such social | |To Reader |workers. Izmail Kerimov chief of the employment and special | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |programmes section in the department of labour and employment | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||in Chechnya believes that public work is a noble endeavor | |traditions| music |since it goes to improve the features of the republic. Each | | |inhabitant of Grozny can contribute to its rebirth by | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |participating in social works. | |, a Russian territory which has |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |witnessed the most tragic events|(more News from Chechnya) | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of | Russia - Chechnya | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya | Sports and tourism | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is|FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |allegedly inherently alien to |It was not until the 18th century that the Chechen system of | |Russia , that pro-Russian |physical education started taking shape. Many sports were | |elements in the republic are |meant exclusively for boys. The boys were to be brought up | |marginalised; and lastly, that |agile, strong and hardy. They were taught to bear arms and | |Russian power structures are |ride on horseback. They were subjected to training that made | |fighting the Chechen people, |them fit to endure the deprivations and physical strain of a | |rather than armed bandit groups.|warrior's life. Experienced grownups were entrusted with the | |The reality, however, is that |upbringing of seven-year-old boys. One tutor took up to 14 | |only with the return of the |boys on week-long hiking expeditions to the mountains, taught | |legitimate authorities are |them to ride on horseback and bear arms. The children took no | |villages and towns being |food to the mountains: they were supposed to be able to get it| |restored, children going to |themselves. What might be described as physical fitness | |school for the first time in |classes were often held at the bottom of a canyon: the boys | |many years, and pensioners |practiced sabering, arrow-shooting, wrestling, tree and | |receiving long-forgotten |mountain climbing, swimming, fencing, stone-throwing, | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |weight-lifting and camouflaging techniques. They were taught | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |to ford rivers with heavy munition and all their clothes on. | |referendum on a new Chechen |The training sessions were held far from the village: it was | |constitution, and parliamentary |undignified for the villagers to watch the trainees. | |and presidential elections. |Competitions were then held for the people to see what the | |These votes will be held, |boys had learnt. One of the games that the boys were invited | |despite continued attempts by |to play resembles today's rugby. It is called "cheese game." A| |bandit groups and their leaders |head of cheese, put into a leather bag, served for a ball. The| |to scupper the process of |boys formed two teams each of which had a cheese bag. The | |normalisation in the republic, |eldest villager played the role of the referee. He gave a | |the latest terrorist act being |signal for the two teams to try to get hold of each other's | |the bombing of the republican |cheese bag and to carry both its own and the other bag to an | |government building. The war |appointed place. The players were allowed to do anything in an| |being waged by Chechen |effort to seize the bag. They were allowed to knock one | |separatists against federal |another off their feet, pin down their adversaries' heads, | |forces and more often than not |pinion their arms and legs, lift up and carry away the | |against their own co-citizens is|bag-holder. A cheese ball match could take hours. The | |by no means a "national |onlookers cheered up their favorites with shouts and regular | |liberation struggle of the |battle cries. Cheese ball was also played on horseback. | |Chechen people", but an episode |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |in the overall offensive by |sporteng&row=1] in detail ...) | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern| Chechen tarditions | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian|"Nokhchallah," the chechen character "Nokhchallah," the | |Federation in no way threatens |chechencharacter | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |own language, and preaching |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |during de facto "independence" |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |from Russia that the Chechen |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |people suffered a humanitarian |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |tragedy on an unprecedented |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |trade and plundering came to |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |form the economic basis of the |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |new regime, while chaos and war |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |became the form of its political|stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |existence. We want to emphasise |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |once more: Chechnya is part of |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |Russia , geographically, |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |politically and |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |civilisation-wise. So a |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |hypothetical triumph of radical |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |Islamism on its territory would |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |be anti-historical. Such a |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |development would signify the |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |establishment in the midst of |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |with all ensuing consequences |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |for the international community.|"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |The corporate author - |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |journalists of the Russian |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |Information Agency Novosti - |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |have attempted to be as brief as|horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |possible on providing answers to|be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |the most-often aked questions |walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |(above all posed by a foreign |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |audience) about the Chechen |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |Chechnya : Questions and |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |Answers". It draws heavily on |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |information provided by various |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |Russian ministries and |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |departments that in one or |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |another way are involved in |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |normalising life in the |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |republic. |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |Russian Information Agency |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |Novosti |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |=eng] in detail ...) |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | | |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | | Chechen economics |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| | |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |The Restoration of Transport |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |System in Chechnya |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | | |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |The Russian Tver Region Gives a |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |HelpingHand to Chechnya |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |Transport system in Chechnya is |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |being restored promptly and |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |gradually becomes part of |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |Russia's transport network. |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |Normal highway and railway |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |communication between the |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |republic and the country's other|feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |regions is being adjusted. In |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |the middle of April a central |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |bus terminal was opened in the |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |Zavodskoi district of Grozny.It |a condensed formula of a Chechen way of life. | |serves as the terminal for the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=noheng& | |capital's buses and buses which |row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |travel to other towns. From | | |there Chechnya's residents can |## | |travel to western areas of the | | |republic, neighbouring republics|Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |of Kabardino-Balkaria and | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Daghestan, Russia's Stavropol | | |region and Moscow. Only recently| | |fixed-route buses travelled from| | |Grozny once a week. In addition,| | |there was no permanent place for| | |their departure which caused | | |much trouble for passengers. | | |From now on buses will travel | | |every day in keeping with a | | |fixed schedule. What is also | | |important for passengers and | | |drivers is to have highways | | |repaired. The restoration of | | |highways and bridges has been | | |stepped up in the republic.In | | |March a car bridge across the | | |River Argun was put in | | |exploitation, it is the biggest | | |in Chechnya--some 150 metres | | |long. The cost of the | | |reconstruction work was some 3 | | |million roubles, they were | | |allocated from the federal | | |budget for the goal-oriented | | |programme of Chechnya's | | |restoration. The bridge is of | | |great importance not only for | | |Chechnya but also for Russia as | | |a whole since it is part of the | | |"Kavkaz" highway connecting | | |cities of Roston-on-the Don and | | |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