The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 158 | | | 15.01.04 | |General Baranov: No large | | |illegal armed groups left in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Chechnya | | | |[3375] 15 January 2004 Chechnya reconstruction: progress and | |No large illegal armed groups |plans | |under single command have been |The year 2003 was marked in Chechnya by significant progress | |left in Chechnya, Colonel |in economic reconstruction as well as by the March | |General Valery Baranov, |constitutional referendum, the October elections for regional | |Commander of the Joint Army |President and the December elections to send deputies to the | |Group in the Northern Caucasus, |federal Lower House. According to Director of Finances and | |has said in an interview with |Economy at the presidential office for Southern Russia Dr Yuri| |the Voenno-Promyshlenny Kurier |Palastrov, Chechnya reconstruction programmes gobbled up a | |(Military-Industrial Courier) |total of 21 billion roubles in 2003. The republic's own | |weekly, which was published on |spending amounted to 10 billion roubles, including all 1.2 | |Wednesday. According to Baranov,|billion that Chechnya coffered after raising revenue and | |the militants changed their |paying federal taxes. Federally-funded programmes produced | |tactics radically. They are |nearly 240 thousand square metres of new or repaired housing | |operating in small groups, which|space, 8 new or repaired schools for 2,930 students and 25 new| |tend to be dispersed, and are |or repaired health clinics. All pensioners, people on benefits| |avoiding open armed clashes, he |and public employees were finally restored to full and regular| |said. Baranov set forth his |pay. Chechnya was self-sufficient in grain, meat, dairy and | |understanding of the recent |poultry products. The harvest of sunflower seed increased 2 | |incident, when a gang of Chechen|and a half times, and the harvest of maize, 5 times against | |gunmen penetrated to Dagestan |the respective figures in 2002. The proceeds from oil reached | |and was destroyed there. It was |230 million dollars. The tax collection approached 4 billion | |Ruslan Gelayevs illegal armed |roubles. Dr Palastrov describes all this as evidence of | |unit, made up of 37 men. It was |recovery picking up. Regions outside Chechnya, including | |going from the Shatoi district |neighbours in the Southern Federal District, built or rebuilt | |of Chechnya to Georgia, Baranov |17 schools in the republic, two district general hospitals and| |continued. In his opinion, the |one social services centre. In 2004, 22 billion roubles are | |gang planned to go to Georgia |expected to be spent on reconstruction in Chechnya. Federal | |for the purpose of creating |programmes should build or repair 700 thousand square metres | |special conditions on its |of housing space, resurrect 470 factories, plants, | |territory during the elections. |infrastructure installations, schools, hospitals and | |In other words, they planned to |kindergartens and create 20 thousand jobs. One hundred and 50 | |destabilise the situation there.|thousand unemployed people are entitled to free consultation. | |General Baranov pointed to the |One thousand of them will be offered coaching for new skills. | |fact that the gang under the |Thirty thousand will be welcome to take up community jobs. The| |command of Ruslan Gelayev, who |administration will continue to accommodate returning refugees| |is now in Georgia, included |and pay out compensations for property that was lost in the | |foreign mercenaries. This is |separatist wars. Yuri Palastrov tells us he expects important | |confirmed by the evidence given |breakthroughs in the reconstruction process this year. | |by the captured gunmen. A gang |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |was destroyed recently near the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |village of Serzhen-Yurt, which | | |included mercenaries even from |15 January 2004 First groups of Russian pilgrims began hajj | |Western Europe. A ramified |The first groups of Russian pilgrims making a hajj have left | |network of recruiters is |for Saudi Arabia. The North Caucasian frontier directorate of | |functioning in the world. They |the Federal Security Service told RIA Novosti that 20 | |recruit only real professionals,|organized groups of pilgrims totaling 700 people crossed the | |as a rule, former servicemen, |Azeri-Russian border on their way to Muslim holy places. The | |Baranov said. Commenting on the |checkpoints began to count people who formalized their | |prospects of capturing Maskhadov|documents for travelling to Saudi Arabia. Last year, according| |and Basayev, Baranov said it was|to frontier service's data, 3,700 pilgrims traveled to Saudi | |just a matter of time. I hope |Arabia from the North Caucasian regions. The law enforcement | |soon they will be captured. Now |bodies are taking measures to prevent Chechen warlords and | |Chechnya is no place for Basayev|wounded militants from leaving Russia under the guise of | |and Maskhadov. This is why |pilgrims, the frontier service reported. | |either they surrender |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |voluntarily, or they will be |(more News from Chechnya...) | |destroyed, he said. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |14 January 2004 Chechnen terrorist was blown up when planting| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |explosive device | |more...) |A member of illegal armed units in Chechnya was blown up when | | |planting an explosive device. As the republican Interior | |Police avert new acts of terror |Ministry reported, the incident took place on Tuesday in the | |in Chechnya |Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny "The militant tried to | | |place a homemade explosive device at the roadside but it blew | |Officers of the temporary |up, and the militant was killed," said a spokesman for the | |operational group of the Russian|Interior Ministry. The man has been already identified. He was| |Interior Ministry and criminal |a local inhabitant who worked as a watchman at one of the | |police of the Kurchaloyevsky |district Interior Departments. RIA Novosti reports. | |district have thwarted attempts | | |to prepare and stage new acts of| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |terror in Chechnya, Itar-Tass | | |reports. Police uncovered a | Russia - Chechnya | |cache containing 12 | | |jet-propelled projectiles, six | Chechen traditions | |mines, more than 16 kilogrammes | | |of TNT, three kilogrammes of |"Nokhchallah," the chechen character | |plastic explosive, 19 grenades, | | |electric fuses and rechargeable |[219] | |batteries on the outskirts of |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |the Geldygen village, the |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |Interim press centre of the |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |Russian Interior Ministry in the|properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |North Caucasian region told |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |Itar-Tass on Wednesday. As a |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |result of operational-search |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |action on the same day police |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |found two Shmel flame-throwers |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |and 16 rounds to grenade |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |launcher cached by the roadside.|conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |According to law enforcers, this|stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |cache of arms belonged to the |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |clandestine gunmen group of |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |Abubakar Bashuyev who was killed|demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |in an armed clash with federal |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |troops in 2002. ([http:// |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | | |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | | Chechen history |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | | |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | | |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |To Reader |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |traditions| music |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | | |horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |, a Russian territory which has |walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |witnessed the most tragic events|dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |over the past decade. The book |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |is the latest update on the |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |Chechen Republic . And this is |forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |very important, since a lack of |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |fresh and accurate information |dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |about events in Chechnya |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |generates many distorted |about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |conceptions and rumours - both |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |within and outside Russia . For |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |example, that Chechen society is|gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |allegedly inherently alien to |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |Russia , that pro-Russian |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |elements in the republic are |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |marginalised; and lastly, that |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |Russian power structures are |the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |fighting the Chechen people, |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |The reality, however, is that |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |only with the return of the |immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |legitimate authorities are |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |villages and towns being |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |restored, children going to |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |school for the first time in |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |many years, and pensioners |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |receiving long-forgotten |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |referendum on a new Chechen |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |constitution, and parliamentary |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |and presidential elections. |feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |These votes will be held, |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |despite continued attempts by |forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |bandit groups and their leaders |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |to scupper the process of |a condensed | |normalisation in the republic, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |the latest terrorist act being |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | Chechen tarditions | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |forces and more often than not |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |against their own co-citizens is|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Chechen people", but an episode |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |in the overall offensive by |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |international terrorism on the |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |fundamental principles of modern|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |civilisation. The facts show |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |that being a part of the Russian|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Federation in no way threatens |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |identity, the free use of its |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |own language, and preaching |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |during de facto "independence" |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |from Russia that the Chechen |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |people suffered a humanitarian |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |tragedy on an unprecedented |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to | Chechen cuisine | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |became the form of its political|traditions| music | |existence. We want to emphasise |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |once more: Chechnya is part of |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Russia , geographically, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |politically and |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |civilisation-wise. So a |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |hypothetical triumph of radical |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Islamism on its territory would |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |be anti-historical. Such a |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |development would signify the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |establishment in the midst of |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |with all ensuing consequences |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |for the international community.|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |The corporate author - |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |journalists of the Russian |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Information Agency Novosti - |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |have attempted to be as brief as|their own. | |possible on providing answers to|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |the most-often aked questions |eng] in detail ...) | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen | - | |issue. Hence the book's title: "| | |Chechnya : Questions and |## | |Answers". It draws heavily on | | |information provided by various | Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Russian ministries and | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |The Russian Kraftway computer | | |company expands operations in | | |Chechnya | | | | | |[4640] Kraftway assembles and | | |markets computers and networking| | |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