The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 156 | | | 08.01.04 | |Mikhail Saakashvili: Georgia | | |should be country closed to |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |terrorists | | | |[3390] 08 January 2004 Dozens of repentant rebels turn | |Georgian President Mikhail |themselves in and return to normal life | |Saakashvili said he was ready to|In the run-up to Russia's latest general elections on December| |negotiate with Moscow over new |7, 44 repentant separatist rebels, including warlords, turned | |dates of withdrawing Russian |themselves in. All are between 20 and 40 and come from the | |military bases from the |Districts of Naurskaya, Kurchaloy and Nozhai-Yurt. Two have | |territory of the republic. "The |been found to have complicity in capital crime, and they are | |withdrawal of bases from the |facing criminal charges against them. The 42 others are | |Georgian territory is a serious |welcome to return to normal life. Each has been offered a job | |issue for Russia," Saakashvili |in the economy that matches his skills or a position in the | |said in an interview with the |regional security force of the Chechen President Akhmad | |French newspaper La Monde |Kadyrov. The 44 men surrendered what amounts to a truckload of| |published on Tuesday. "Moscow |firearms. There are machine-guns, grenade launchers and dozens| |which has bases in Georgia and |of automatic assault rifles. Each item will undergo forensic | |Armenia, has legitimate security|scrutiny for involvement in gun crime. Rebels are usually | |interests on its southern |aware of this and those who ever shot anyone think twice or | |borders, and we are ready to |thrice before making a surrender bid. | |discuss these issues," he said. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |The president stressed that the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |parties can discuss new dates of| | |withdrawal, but within |[2520] 07 January 2004 Normal life supposes normal health | |reasonable limits. Saakashvili |care | |stated that Georgia should be a |The central hospital of the District of Sunzha is in every | |country closed to terrorists. At|aspect typical for Chechnya. It has an emergency ward, an | |the same time he said he "did |outpatient department, an inpatient department for adults with| |not believe that al Qaeda |40 beds and an inpatient department for children with 20 beds.| |militants were in the Pankisi |The latter has been functional for over a year and it provides| |Gorge near Chechnya." "I don't |attention for almost every condition that occurs in children. | |believe in it, because after |In April 2003, construction teams completed an overhaul and | |September 11, their sources of |renovation of the Sunzha Hospital. The hospital now has | |finance were busted and we |central heating and an asphalt courtyard. Each patient | |maintain a reliable control on |receives three hot meals each day, all individually tailored | |our borders, thanks to U.S. |by an experienced dietologist. Non-ambulatory patients get | |military support," the president|meals in their beds. In the past several months, the Health | |said. "Incidentally, I've always|Ministry and the National Health Insurance Fund have | |believed that humanitarian |significantly improved the supply of medicines to the Sunzha | |assistance to Chechnya was a |Hospital. The hospital offers cardiography and anonymous | |normal practice. We feel no |testing for HIV-AIDS. Of the problems, Deputy Head Physician | |hostility toward Chechens, but |Dr Malika Murtazova singles out pressing needs for an | |Georgia should be a country |intensive therapy unit, for a fully-fledged surgery ward | |closed to terrorists," |instead of a small surgery room, for a casualty ward, for | |Saakashvili emphasized. |ultrasound diagnostic equipment and for an X-ray machine. The | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |spread of TB, of which there are over 50 known cases in the | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |District, and an influx of returning refugees call for broader| |more...) |and more frequent medical checks in the local population. | | |There are considerable problems with staffing as displaced | |Chechen residents receive 450 |villagers stream back whereas fugitive medical workers | |mln. Rbls. for lost housing in |continue to pursue careers outside Chechnya. Dr Murtazova says| |2003. |she expects more help from the government of her Shelkovskaya | | |District and from the regional authorities in Grozny. | |Chechen residents received 450 |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |million roubles last year for |(more News from Chechnya...) | |lost housing and property during| | |combat operations. A total of |[4641] 06 January 2004 A children's charity foundation helps | |1,285 families received |Chechnya | |compensations, Itar-Tass learnt |A children's charity foundation whose board of trustees is | |from Chechen First Deputy |headed by Tamara Kazantseva has launched more than 50 projects| |Finance Minister Luiza |since its registration date - April 23, 2001. It reaches out | |Khachukayeva. The first tranche |to all corners of southern Russia and takes care of Chechen | |from the federal centre for this|children: raises money for rehabilitation programs and | |purpose amounted to 350 million |supplies young Chechens with school books and fiction novels. | |roubles in 2003, while the |It deals with all kinds of children's problems but pays | |second 100 million. All in all, |special attention to orphaned children. On agreement with the | |around 40,000 families are to |Office of President Putin's emissary in the Southern federal | |receive compensations to a total|district and the Chechen government, the lion's share of | |sum of 14.5 billion roubles, |humanitarian aid is directed to boarding schools and | |Khachukayeva said. A |orphanages. Young victims of the war action receive medical | |compensation is paid 300,000 |assistance and psychological advice. Many thousands of small | |roubles for lost housing and |Chechens spent their summer vacations in the resort cities of | |50,000 roubles for property. |Tuapse, Anapa and Sochi that lie on the coast of the Black | |Payment of cash is under |Sea, in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and in the spa city of | |personal control of Chechen |Mineralniye Vody. On invitation from the same charity | |President Akhmat Kadyrov. A |foundation, they take annual trips to Moscow. A group of | |special commission was set up in|gifted Chechen children took part, also on the charity's | |the republic with the |invitation, in a festival of Russian literature in the city of| |participation of representatives|Krasnodar. There is no end to the list of what this charity | |from the Interior Ministry and |has done for the younger generation. The charity's sensitive | |the prosecutors office at the |and kind-hearted staff workers see what they are doing as | |republican government to check |their regular way of life. The chairperson of the charity's | |applications. ([http:// |board of trustees Tamara Kazantseva was decorated with an | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |order of Catherine the Great and charity director Natalya | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |Korchaghina got a Roentgen silver medal, early last September.| | | | | Chechen history | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| Russia - Chechnya | | | | |To Reader | Chechen traditions | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||"Nokhchallah," the chechen character | |traditions| music | | | |[219] | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |, a Russian territory which has |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |over the past decade. The book |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |is the latest update on the |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |Chechen Republic . And this is |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |very important, since a lack of |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |fresh and accurate information |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |about events in Chechnya |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |generates many distorted |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |conceptions and rumours - both |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |within and outside Russia . For |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |example, that Chechen society is|fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |allegedly inherently alien to |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |Russia , that pro-Russian |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |elements in the republic are |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |marginalised; and lastly, that |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |Russian power structures are |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |fighting the Chechen people, |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |The reality, however, is that |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |only with the return of the |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |legitimate authorities are |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |villages and towns being |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |restored, children going to |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |school for the first time in |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |many years, and pensioners |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |receiving long-forgotten |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |referendum on a new Chechen |walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |constitution, and parliamentary |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |and presidential elections. |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |These votes will be held, |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |despite continued attempts by |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |bandit groups and their leaders |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |to scupper the process of |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |normalisation in the republic, |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |the latest terrorist act being |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |the bombing of the republican |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |government building. The war |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |being waged by Chechen |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |separatists against federal |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |forces and more often than not |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |against their own co-citizens is|anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |by no means a "national |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |liberation struggle of the |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |Chechen people", but an episode |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |in the overall offensive by |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |international terrorism on the |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |fundamental principles of modern|immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |civilisation. The facts show |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |that being a part of the Russian|actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |Federation in no way threatens |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |identity, the free use of its |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |own language, and preaching |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |during de facto "independence" |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |from Russia that the Chechen |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |people suffered a humanitarian |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |trade and plundering came to |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |form the economic basis of the |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |new regime, while chaos and war |a condensed | |became the form of its political|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |existence. We want to emphasise |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, | Chechen tarditions | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |hypothetical triumph of radical |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Islamism on its territory would |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |be anti-historical. Such a | | |development would signify the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |establishment in the midst of |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |with all ensuing consequences |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |for the international community.|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |The corporate author - |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |journalists of the Russian |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Information Agency Novosti - |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |have attempted to be as brief as|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |possible on providing answers to|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |the most-often aked questions |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |(above all posed by a foreign |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |audience) about the Chechen |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |issue. Hence the book's title: "|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Chechnya : Questions and |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Answers". It draws heavily on |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |information provided by various | | |Russian ministries and | Chechen cuisine | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |normalising life in the |traditions| music | |republic. |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russian Information Agency |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Novosti |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |=eng] in detail ...) |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| | |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | | Chechen economics |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | | |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |The Russian Kraftway computer |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |company expands operations in |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Chechnya |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | | |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |[4640] Kraftway assembles and |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |markets computers and networking|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |equipment. It has supplied heaps|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |and heaps of all this to |their own. | |regional agencies in Chechnya. |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Under a three-year agreement |eng] in detail ...) | |with Kraftway, Grozny's KomTi | | |has established a service centre| - | |for repairing and upgrading | | |Kraftway hardware in the Chechen|## | |capital. Repair services include| | |the supplier's guarantees. All | Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |orders are performed within two | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |days. Consultation, expendables | | |and latest software are | | |available. Kraftway's deputy CEO| | |for regional operations Mr Igor | | |Murashkintsev says the presence | | |of a top-notch Kraftway service | | |centre on Chechen territory | | |should help his company | | |dramatically expand business in | | |Chechnya. He pins great hopes on| | |all-round normalization in the | | |republic. | | |([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