The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 96 | | | 30.05.03 | |Russian gov't to give financial | | |aid to victims of terrorist |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |attacks in Chechnya | | | |The district music school in Shelkovskayain Chechnya badly | |The families of those who were |needs help 30 May 2003 The district music school in | |killed in the terrorist attacks |Shelkovskaya in Chechnya badly needs help | |in the villages of Znamenskoye |The school has issued graduation certificates to 5 hundred | |in the Nadterechoye district and|students in the period since it first opened in 1963. Many are| |Belorechye in the Gudermes |now professional musicians. Seven teach at their old school, | |district will be granted 100,000|instructing over 130 new students there in piano, guitar and | |rubles for each family member |accordion. For Director Liubov Ivanova, it's her 32nd year at | |killed in the attacks. The |the Shelkovskaya music school. She says student diligence is | |Russian government made this |at an all-time high, with not a single instance of truancy | |decision at a meeting on May 29.|recorded this academic year. She also praises a 4th-grader | |On May 12, a suicide bomber |named Eset Israpilova for being an outstanding prodigy. At | |driving a truck stuffed with |exams, the girl performs at least eight pieces instead of the | |explosives set them off, killing|required four. The students give several concerts each year, | |60 people, mainly civilians, in |usually in local schools and at the District Culture Centre | |Znamenskoye. On May 14, a female|when this hosts events on national public holidays. After | |suicide bomber activated an |losing its own building to fighting, the music school now | |explosive device strapped to her|rents a small studio at the Centre. It also operates branches | |body. The resutling explosion |in Sary-Su and Grebenskaya. Only piano classes are available | |claimed the lives of 16 people. |there. Of the pre-war inventory of instruments, only six old | |The tragedy occurred during a |pianos remain. A music school in the region of Krasnodar has | |religious ceremony between the |donated an accordion. At least three more are badly needed, so| |villages of Belorechye and |that students could form an accordion ensemble. There is an | |Iliskhan-Yurt. The government |acute need in guitars as well. Mrs Ivanova expects help from | |information department told |wealthy members of the Chechen diaspora with musical or | |Interfax that 14,200 rubles will|pedagogical inclinations or family links to Shelkovskaya. She | |also be provided for the burial |reckons there must be successful entrepreneurs among the | |of each victim of the recent |graduates of her Shelkovskaya school. Each new instrument | |bombings in Chechnya. In |would be of great help. Gratitude will be in the form of | |addition, those who were lightly|excellent music-making, Mrs Ivanova says. | |wounded in the blasts will |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |receive 15,000 rubles each, and |(more News from Chechnya) | |those who suffered more serious | | |wounds will be given 50,000 |29 May 2003 Personnel rotation begins in airborne force in | |rubles. The government also |Chechnya | |decided to finance the |Personnel rotation began in the airborne operations force in | |rehabilitation of children |the framework of the Combined Federal Force in the North | |affected by terrorist attacks in|Caucasus, a competent source in the Defense Ministry told | |Chechnya and children whose |Interfax-Military News Agency. The rotation started in line | |parents were killed in such |with a directive of Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Anatoly | |attacks. |Kvashnin and Airborne Forces Commander Georgy Shpak, the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |source said. "The first train with a battalion-size task force| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |made on the basis of the 51st paratrooper regiment of the | |more...) |106th airborne division leaves Tula for the North Caucasus on | | |Thursday. The train carries about 500 paratroopers with | |Personnel rotation begins in |armament and military hardware," the source noted. The | |airborne force in Chechnya |rotation will be completed before the end of June, he went on.| | |A new shift of paratroopers will replace the personnel of the | |Personnel rotation began in the |119th paratrooper company of the 106th division. The division | |airborne operations force in the|under command of Major General Yevgeny Savilov is | |framework of the Combined |headquartered in Tula, central European Russia. "The 51st | |Federal Force in the North |regiment's paratroopers have taken a three-month training | |Caucasus, a competent source in |course at a proving range near Tula using a special program, | |the Defense Ministry told |and they are ready to accomplish combat missions in forest | |Interfax-Military News Agency. |covered mountains of the North Caucasus," the source said. He | |The rotation started in line |stressed that all paratrooper task forces will be replaced | |with a directive of Armed Forces|with new ones during the current rotation. The Airborne Forces| |Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin |maintain a regiment-size task force, two battalion-size task | |and Airborne Forces Commander |forces, a composite reconnaissance detachment, and an | |Georgy Shpak, the source said. |artillery battalion in Chechnya. The total number of | |"The first train with a |paratroopers exceeds 2,500. Paratroopers are stationed in | |battalion-size task force made |basic areas in southern Chechnya. | |on the basis of the 51st |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |paratrooper regiment of the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |106th airborne division leaves | | |Tula for the North Caucasus on |State-owned farm "Chentiurtovsky"stores up daily bread 29 May | |Thursday. The train carries |2003 State-owned farm Chentiurtovsky stores up daily bread | |about 500 paratroopers with |The work of builders, doctors and teachers is honorable, but | |armament and military hardware,"|crop growers deserve particular merit, for it is they who | |the source noted. The rotation |provide us with our daily bread. Farmers at the state-owned | |will be completed before the end|farm Chentiurtovsky in the Grozny rural district work hard for| |of June, he went on. A new shift|that noble goal. The personnel are mostly young, with an | |of paratroopers will replace the|average age of 25 years. They work along with experienced | |personnel of the 119th |farmers. Fieldwork engages 80 people. These are 50 | |paratrooper company of the 106th|machine-operators and 30 workers. Now that harvesting is over,| |division. The division under |machine-operators began repair of combine harvesters. The | |command of Major General Yevgeny|farmers have something to be proud of. The state-owned farm | |Savilov is headquartered in |Chentiurtovsky has all of its land sown, 80 hectares of oats, | |Tula, central European Russia. |40 hectares of pea, 100 hectares of corn and 100 hectares of | |"The 51st regiment's |Sudan grass. Almost all spring crops will be stored up for | |paratroopers have taken a |fodder. The state farms administration intends to promote | |three-month training course at a|cattle breeding. Dairy farm has recently received more than | |proving range near Tula using a |100 cattle. Director of the farm Aziz Abdurzakov believes that| |special program, and they are |it has good prospects. The farm will expand and the village | |ready to accomplish combat |will have new jobs. | |missions in forest covered |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |mountains of the North |(more News from Chechnya) | |Caucasus," the source said. He | | |stressed that all paratrooper | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |task forces will be replaced | | |with new ones during the current| Russia - Chechnya | |rotation. The Airborne Forces | | |maintain a regiment-size task | Sports and tourism | |force, two battalion-size task | | |forces, a composite |FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |reconnaissance detachment, and | | |an artillery battalion in |FROM THE HISTORY OF CHECHEN SPORTS | |Chechnya. The total number of |It was not until the 18th century that the Chechen system of | |paratroopers exceeds 2,500. |physical education started taking shape. Many sports were | |Paratroopers are stationed in |meant exclusively for boys. The boys were to be brought up | |basic areas in southern |agile, strong and hardy. They were taught to bear arms and | |Chechnya. |ride on horseback. They were subjected to training that made | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |them fit to endure the deprivations and physical strain of a | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |warrior's life. Experienced grownups were entrusted with the | |more...) |upbringing of seven-year-old boys. One tutor took up to 14 | | |boys on week-long hiking expeditions to the mountains, taught | | Chechen history |them to ride on horseback and bear arms. The children took no | | |food to the mountains: they were supposed to be able to get it| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|themselves. What might be described as physical fitness | | |classes were often held at the bottom of a canyon: the boys | |To Reader |practiced sabering, arrow-shooting, wrestling, tree and | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |mountain climbing, swimming, fencing, stone-throwing, | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||weight-lifting and camouflaging techniques. They were taught | |traditions| music |to ford rivers with heavy munition and all their clothes on. | | |The training sessions were held far from the village: it was | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |undignified for the villagers to watch the trainees. | |, a Russian territory which has |Competitions were then held for the people to see what the | |witnessed the most tragic events|boys had learnt. One of the games that the boys were invited | |over the past decade. The book |to play resembles today's rugby. It is called "cheese game." A| |is the latest update on the |head of cheese, put into a leather bag, served for a ball. The| |Chechen Republic . And this is |boys formed two teams each of which had a cheese bag. The | |very important, since a lack of |eldest villager played the role of the referee. He gave a | |fresh and accurate information |signal for the two teams to try to get hold of each other's | |about events in Chechnya |cheese bag and to carry both its own and the other bag to an | |generates many distorted |appointed place. The players were allowed to do anything in an| |conceptions and rumours - both |effort to seize the bag. They were allowed to knock one | |within and outside Russia . For |another off their feet, pin down their adversaries' heads, | |example, that Chechen society is|pinion their arms and legs, lift up and carry away the | |allegedly inherently alien to |bag-holder. A cheese ball match could take hours. The | |Russia , that pro-Russian |onlookers cheered up their favorites with shouts and regular | |elements in the republic are |battle cries. Cheese ball was also played on horseback. | |marginalised; and lastly, that |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Russian power structures are |sporteng&row=1] in detail ...) | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.| Chechen tarditions | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the |"Nokhchallah," the chechen character "Nokhchallah," the | |legitimate authorities are |chechencharacter | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |school for the first time in |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |many years, and pensioners |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |receiving long-forgotten |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |referendum on a new Chechen |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |constitution, and parliamentary |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |and presidential elections. |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |These votes will be held, |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |despite continued attempts by |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |bandit groups and their leaders |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |to scupper the process of |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |normalisation in the republic, |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |the latest terrorist act being |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |the bombing of the republican |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |government building. The war |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |being waged by Chechen |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |separatists against federal |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |forces and more often than not |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |against their own co-citizens is|The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |by no means a "national |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |liberation struggle of the |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |Chechen people", but an episode |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |in the overall offensive by |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |international terrorism on the |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |fundamental principles of modern|extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |civilisation. The facts show |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |that being a part of the Russian|horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |Federation in no way threatens |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |identity, the free use of its |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |own language, and preaching |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |during de facto "independence" |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |from Russia that the Chechen |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |people suffered a humanitarian |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |trade and plundering came to |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |form the economic basis of the |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |new regime, while chaos and war |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |became the form of its political|morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |existence. We want to emphasise |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |once more: Chechnya is part of |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |Russia , geographically, |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |politically and |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |civilisation-wise. So a |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |hypothetical triumph of radical |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |Islamism on its territory would |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |be anti-historical. Such a |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |development would signify the |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |establishment in the midst of |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |with all ensuing consequences |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |for the international community.|social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |The corporate author - |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |journalists of the Russian |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |Information Agency Novosti - |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |have attempted to be as brief as|people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |possible on providing answers to|hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |the most-often aked questions |feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |(above all posed by a foreign |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |audience) about the Chechen |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |Chechnya : Questions and |a condensed formula of a Chechen way of life. | |Answers". It draws heavily on |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion=noheng& | |information provided by various |row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or |## | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the |Copyright (C) [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |republic. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |State-owned farm Chentiurtovsky | | |stores up daily bread | | | | | |The Russian Tver Region Gives a | | |HelpingHand to Chechnya The work| | |of builders, doctors and | | |teachers is honorable, but crop | | |growers deserve particular | | |merit, for it is they who | | |provide us with our daily bread.| | |Farmers at the state-owned farm | | |Chentiurtovsky in the Grozny | | |rural district work hard for | | |that noble goal. The personnel | | |are mostly young, with an | | |average age of 25 years. They | | |work along with experienced | | |farmers. Fieldwork engages 80 | | |people. These are 50 | | |machine-operators and 30 | | |workers. Now that harvesting is | | |over, machine-operators began | | |repair of combine harvesters. | | |The farmers have something to be| | |proud of. The state-owned farm | | |Chentiurtovsky has all of its | | |land sown, 80 hectares of oats, | | |40 hectares of pea, 100 hectares| | |of corn and 100 hectares of | | |Sudan grass. Almost all spring | | |crops will be stored up for | | |fodder. The state farms | | |administration intends to | | |promote cattle breeding. Dairy | | |farm has recently received more | | |than 100 cattle. Director of the| | |farm Aziz Abdurzakov believes | | |that it has good prospects. The | | |farm will expand and the village| | |will have new jobs. | | |([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