The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 157 | | | 12.01.04 | |Sport hunting opens in five | | |Chechen districts |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Sport hunting has opened in five|[4638] 12 January 2004 School Children from Sochi Help | |plains districts of Chechnya |Chechen Children of the Same Age | |where, following combat |Today many Russian regions are contributing to the restoration| |activities, wild life started |of Chechnya.The first to give helping hand to the republic | |returning for the first time |were its neighbours in Russia's Southern Federal district. The| |over the past nine years, |Krasnodar region is not keeping aside either. School children | |Itar-Tass learnt in an interview|of the Sochi secondary school No.1 sent text-books to children| |with chief wildlife inspector of|in Chechnya.As the parcel was sent in the run up to the New | |the republic Magomed Dzhandarov.|Year, it also contained all kinds of sweets and toys for | |According to the chief wildlife |junior school children. To begin from the very beginning a | |inspector, hunting is permitted |Charity Club appeared in the Sochi secondary school No.1. It | |in forests and fields of the |was set up by teachers and senior students, members of the | |Gudermes, Naurskaya, |school's self-government.The club members help all those in | |Nadterechny, Grozny and |need, including Chechen school children who had to study in | |Shelkovskaya districts. Licences|complicated conditions. The charity move was entitled "help to| |are issued for hunting wild |Chechen children". The whole of the city joined in the move | |boar, wolf, fox and jackal as |which was initiated by the board of directors of local | |well as for birds. Some 4,000 |schools. And this is not a one-time action. According to a | |residents of the republic |school director, Olga Medvedeva, it will be continued. | |received hunting certificates |Residents of Sochi intend to collect and sent fiction books to| |and the official status when the|children of their age in Chechnya. They will try to adjust | |Chechen Wildlife Inspection |correspondence with them, to make their acquaintance and , | |Service started operating in the|probably, they will act as sponsors of one of the Chechen | |republic in April 2000. Despite |schools. Teachers of the Sochi secondary school No. 1 want | |small wages, the service is |their students to grow up kind and compassionate. Let's hope | |fully staffed. Some staffers |that their expectations will come true. | |have rich experience, while a |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |wildlife inspector in the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Urus-Martan has a 30-year | | |service record. We hope that |12 January 2004 Police detain 3 kidnappers of prosecutors | |while the situation in the |staffers in Chechnya | |republic stabilises, hunting |Police detained three local residents within the framework of | |will be permitted in southern |the Whirlwind-Anti-Terror security sweep carried out in the | |(mountainous) part of Chechnya, |village of Pervomaiskaya in the republics Grozny district. The| |Dzhandarov noted. We have even |detainees are men from the group headed by local field | |prepared documents on granting a|commander Paizullayev. It has been established that in | |federal status to the Sovetsky |December 2002, the detainees abducted and held in captivity | |preserve, rich in fauna, |the Chechen prosecutors aide Nadezhda Pagosova and deputy | |situated in mountains of the |prosecutor of the Shatoi district Aleksei Klimanov, head of | |Shatoi district. Chechnya was |the press service of the North Caucasus Police Directorate | |always famous for its great |Tamerlan Kazikhanov told Itar-Tass. The investigators are | |numbers of wild boars, bears, |currently probing into the detainees complicity in other | |deers, foxes, wolves, pheasants |crimes and taking measures to identify and detain other | |and other wildlife. In Soviet |members of the gang, Kazikhanov noted. | |times, the party and government |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |elite regarded it prestigious to|(more News from Chechnya...) | |hunt here. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |12 January 2004 Organizers of 1999 apartment bloc blasts to | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |be sentenced in Moscow City Court | |more...) |The Moscow City Court will pass a sentence on two participants| | |in the apartment bloc explosions that shook Moscow and another| |Ingush Moslems hold conference |Russian city of Volgodonsk in the autumn of 1999. The | |in Nazran |explosions of two apartment buildings on Moscows Guryanov | | |Street and Kashirskoye Shosse on September 9 and 13, 1999 and | |A conference of Moslems of |an apartment building blast in Volgodonsk on September 16 | |Ingushetia, Islam against |claimed the lives of 243 people, including more than 20 | |Extremism, took place in Nazran,|children. Two culprits are behind the bars. They are Adam | |Itar-Tass reports. |Dekkushev, 42, and Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, 37. Both were born in| |Representatives of the Ingush |Karachayevo-Cherkessia. They are being charged with terrorism,| |administration, scientists, |murder with a high degree of brutality, participation in an | |intellectuals and clerics from |illegal armed group, the transportation, production and | |the North Caucasus, the |storage of explosives and illegal border trespassing. The | |Stavropol and Vladikavkaz |state prosecutor has demanded a life sentence for Dekkushev | |dioceses took part in the event.|and Krymshamkhalov. The two terrorists were detained as a | |Extremism has centuries-old |result of a joint operation by the Russian and Georgian | |roots, Ingushetia Mufti |security services. Dekkushev was extradited to Russia on April| |Magomed-Hajji Albogachiyev said |14, 2002. Krymshamkhalov was detained on December 7 the same | |at the conference. There are |year after the Georgian security services carried out a mop-up| |many reasons and factors for |operation in the Pankisi gorge. The investigation has | |religious extremism, such as |established that both were members of a group led by Achemez | |political, economic, social and |Gochiyayev who organized the apartment building blasts in | |psychological. Wahhabism, an |Moscow and Volgodonsk. The trial over Dekkushev and | |extremist trend, does not |Krymshamkhalov has been on in Moscow since last October. The | |originate from Islam a religion |defendants have pleaded guilty only partially. Dekkushev said | |of peace. Analyzing the Russian |that he had known that the explosive devices which he | |situation and events of the past|transported were meant for a terrorist act but claimed that he| |few years, which caused numerous|hadnt known that they were going to be used against civilians.| |casualties and economic losses | | |and endangered the integrity of | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Russia, one can presume that | | |pseudo-Islamic extremist trends,| Russia - Chechnya | |among them Wahhabism, were a | | |reason to that, Albogachiyev | Chechen traditions | |said. He noted that Wahhabism | | |must be outlawed in Russia. |"Nokhchallah," the chechen character | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |[219] | |more...) |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | | |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | | Chechen history |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | | |properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| | |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |To Reader |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |traditions| music |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | | |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |, a Russian territory which has |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |witnessed the most tragic events|robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |over the past decade. The book |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |is the latest update on the |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |Chechen Republic . And this is |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |very important, since a lack of |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |fresh and accurate information |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |about events in Chechnya |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |generates many distorted |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |conceptions and rumours - both |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |within and outside Russia . For |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |example, that Chechen society is|There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |allegedly inherently alien to |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |Russia , that pro-Russian |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |elements in the republic are |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |marginalised; and lastly, that |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |Russian power structures are |horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |fighting the Chechen people, |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |rather than armed bandit groups.|walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |The reality, however, is that |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |only with the return of the |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |legitimate authorities are |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |villages and towns being |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |restored, children going to |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |school for the first time in |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |many years, and pensioners |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |receiving long-forgotten |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |referendum on a new Chechen |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |constitution, and parliamentary |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |and presidential elections. |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |These votes will be held, |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |despite continued attempts by |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |bandit groups and their leaders |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |to scupper the process of |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |normalisation in the republic, |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |the latest terrorist act being |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |the bombing of the republican |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |government building. The war |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |being waged by Chechen |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |separatists against federal |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |forces and more often than not |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |against their own co-citizens is|social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |by no means a "national |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |liberation struggle of the |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |Chechen people", but an episode |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |in the overall offensive by |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |international terrorism on the |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |fundamental principles of modern|feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |civilisation. The facts show |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |that being a part of the Russian|forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |Federation in no way threatens |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|a condensed | |identity, the free use of its |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |own language, and preaching |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | Chechen tarditions | |from Russia that the Chechen | | |people suffered a humanitarian |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |new regime, while chaos and war |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |became the form of its political|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |existence. We want to emphasise |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |once more: Chechnya is part of |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Russia , geographically, |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |politically and |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |civilisation-wise. So a |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |hypothetical triumph of radical |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Islamism on its territory would |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |be anti-historical. Such a |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |development would signify the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |establishment in the midst of |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |with all ensuing consequences |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |for the international community.|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | Chechen cuisine | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |possible on providing answers to|traditions| music | |the most-often aked questions |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |(above all posed by a foreign |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |audience) about the Chechen |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Chechnya : Questions and |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Answers". It draws heavily on |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |information provided by various |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Russian ministries and |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |departments that in one or |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |another way are involved in |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |normalising life in the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |republic. |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Russian Information Agency |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Novosti |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |=eng] in detail ...) |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| | Chechen economics |eng] in detail ...) | | | | |The Russian Kraftway computer | - | |company expands operations in | | |Chechnya |## | | | | |[4640] Kraftway assembles and | Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |markets computers and networking| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |equipment. It has supplied heaps| | |and heaps of all this to | | |regional agencies in Chechnya. | | |Under a three-year agreement | | |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 | | |orders are performed within two | | |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