The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 161 | | | 27.01.04 | |Representatives of international| | |organizations providing |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |humanitarian aid to North | | |Caucasus will meet in Moscow |[4707] 27 January 2004 The Niva State Farm Is Reviving | | |Cattle-Breeding | |At the beginning of February the|In the Soviet-era times the Niva State Farm of the Naur | |Russian Minister for Chechen |District in Chechnya had 32,000 sheep, and its only occupation| |Affairs, Stanislav Ilyasov will |was cattle-breeding. And what is left from the former times | |meet representatives of all |today are only pens and strips of land, while the 70 per cent | |international organizations that|of the cattle-breeding farms have been destroyed. So the only | |provide humanitarian aid to the |thing the Niva State Farm could do was to start growing | |North Caucasus, he told RIA |plants. Now 5,700 hectares of arable land are used to grow | |Novosti after talks with the UN |wheat, rye , barley, and forage crops . What the Niva farmers | |Under-Secretary-General for |cant develop themselves they lease. Even in 2003 that was very| |Humanitarian Affairs, Jan |bad for the Niva farmers they harvested as much grain as was | |Egeland. According to the |enough for them to make almost all the necessary payments to | |minister, the meeting will be |the workers - there are 83 of them on the state farm - and | |devoted to future humanitarian |create a seed reserve. A sore issue today is agricultural | |cooperation in the North |equipment. According to the existing norms, the farm must have| |Caucasus, including Chechnya. |40 pieces of agricultural machinery at its disposal but it has| |"It is necessary that the aid |only 13. And there are only 2 combines on the Niva farm at the| |provided by humanitarian |moment. The farmers, however, did not forget about their farms| |organizations should be |former specialization. The plans to revive cattle-breeding are| |targeted, should not be lost |concrete, says the Niva director Khamzat Shundulayev. The | |during delivery or seized by |payments for the lease of the arable land, pastures and the | |militants," Ilyasov emphasized. |preserved cattle-breeding facilities could make a start. And | |According to him, at the meeting|Chechnyas ministry of agriculture has already earmarked | |with Egeland they also touched |finances for the purchasing of cattle. The director is | |upon the problem of ensuring |satisfied with his farmers work. The people understand, he | |security of humanitarian |says, that the current are temporary difficulties. Chechnyas | |organizations. |Constitution is now an accomplished fact and its president is | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |elected as well, which has inspired great hopes in the hearts | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |of the Chechen people, who are now in a better mood and full | |more...) |of enthusiasm. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |UN Under-Secretary-General |(more News from Chechnya...) | |visits North Caucasus | | | |26 January 2004 Stanislav Ilyasov: if refugees from Chechnya | |UN Under-Secretary-General on |want to stay on Ingushetia's territory their desire will be | |Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland|fulfilled | |left Moscow for the North |Federal Minister for Chechnya's Affairs, Stanislav Ilyasov | |Caucasus, the Moscow |assured that there would not be any compulsory return of the | |representation of the UN |forced migrants from Ingushetia back to Chechnya (Ingushetia | |Department on the coordination |is a republic neighboring on Chechnya and forming part of | |of humanitarian affairs told RIA|Russia). He stated this on Monday in the course of the meeting| |Novosti. "He came to Ingushetia |with UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan | |on board an Emergencies Ministry|Egeland. According to the Minister, "if refugees from Chechnya| |airplane, where he meets with |want to stay on Ingushetia's territory their desire will be | |Ingush President Murat Zyazikov |fulfilled." By Ilyasov's information, approximately 55,000 | |and visits a camp of forced |forced migrants from Chechnya are now living in Ingushetia, | |migrants "Satsita" in the |with 5,000 of them staying in three tent camps. "We will make | |Sunzhensky district," a source |calculations on the families who will not return to the | |in the department said. Then |Chechen Republic, and will organize their life on Ingushetia's| |Egeland will head for Chechnya, |territory," the Minister said. But, according to him, the | |where he is scheduled to meet |Russian authorities plan to move the camps for forced migrants| |with Chechen President Akhmat |from Ingushetia onto the territory of the Chechen Republic. | |Kadyrov. The UN |"We are ready to complete this work very soon," Ilyasov said | |Under-Secretary-General will |to RIA Novosti. | |visit a camp for temporary |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |refugees, one of the hospitals |(more News from Chechnya...) | |and the center for handicapped | | |children, the source noted. In |26 January 2004 Kamikaze woman arrested in Dagestan | |the evening of January 27th he |Nineteen-year-old Shebzukhova from the Chechen village of | |plans to return to Moscow. |Shelkovskaya, widow of a killed Chechen bandit, was arrested | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |in the Dagestan town of Kizlyar during a special operation, | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |launched by the Provisional Operations Group (POG) of the | |more...) |Russian Interior Ministry. Officials of the POG Press Centre | | |told Itar-Tass that this specially trained kamikaze woman was | | Chechen history |about to commit a terrorist act. Detectives are now looking | | |for those who had trained the terrorist. POG men arrested in | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya an active member of an | | |illegal armed gang, who, together with other bandits, attacked| |To Reader |a group of policemen on the Goiskoye-Urus-Martan motor road. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |His case is now being investigated. It was already proved that| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||an earlier arrested resident of Grozny took part in the | |traditions| music |attempt on the life of the chief of the Oktyabrsky District | | |Police Department of the Chechen capital last November. The | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |police found a camouflaged barrel in the Achkoi-Martan | |, a Russian territory which has |district centre, containing 30 kilograms of hexogen mixed with| |witnessed the most tragic events|bolts and nuts. Sixty kilograms of hexogen and aluminium | |over the past decade. The book |powder, containing metal scraps, were found next to the gate | |is the latest update on the |of the Krasny Molot plant in Grozny. The bandits, who arranged| |Chechen Republic . And this is |those booby-traps, are now being sought. | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | Russia - Chechnya | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For | Chechen traditions | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |"Nokhchallah," the chechen character | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are |[219] | |marginalised; and lastly, that |The word "Nokhchallah" does not lend itself to translation . | |Russian power structures are |But it may and must be explained. "Nokhcho" stands for | |fighting the Chechen people, |Chechen."Nokhchallah" brings together all the specific | |rather than armed bandit groups.|properties of the Chechen character. It implies a whole gamut | |The reality, however, is that |of moral and ethical norms. It may be described as the Chechen| |only with the return of the |code of honor. Chivalry, gentility, diplomatic skills, | |legitimate authorities are |manliness, generosity and reliability are the qualities which | |villages and towns being |a child of a hardline Chechen family imbibes with, as they | |restored, children going to |say, his mother's milk. And the Chechen code of honor is | |school for the first time in |rooted in the remote days of Chechen history. In the severe | |many years, and pensioners |conditions of bygone years a refusal to open the door to a | |receiving long-forgotten |stranger could lead to lethal frostbites. He could succumb to | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |fatigue or famine, fall prey to a wild beast or highway | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |robbers. The ancestral tradition which has been held sacred, | |referendum on a new Chechen |demands that a stranger be welcomed in, seated by the fire, | |constitution, and parliamentary |offered food and shelter for the night. Hospitality is, thus, | |and presidential elections. |"nokhchallah." The narrow roads and paths of Chechnya zigzag | |These votes will be held, |around mountain cliffs and on the brink of precipices. A fight| |despite continued attempts by |or a heated argument may send one down into the abyss. | |bandit groups and their leaders |Politeness and willingness to compromise are "nokhchallah." | |to scupper the process of |The strenuous conditions of their life taught the highlanders | |normalisation in the republic, |to help and support one another, which is also "nokhchallah." | |the latest terrorist act being |But "nokhchallah" has nothing to do with the Table of Ranks. | |the bombing of the republican |There have been neither princes nor serfs among the Chechens. | |government building. The war |"Nokhchallah" is an ability to deal with people without | |being waged by Chechen |showing your privileged position. The privileged should be | |separatists against federal |extra polite and accommodating to avert hurting anyone's | |forces and more often than not |feelings. If two men meet and one of them is riding on | |against their own co-citizens is|horseback and the other walking, the one who is riding shall | |by no means a "national |be the first to utter words of greeting. If the one who is | |liberation struggle of the |walking is older that the one who is riding, the rider shall | |Chechen people", but an episode |dismount to greet the older man. "Nokhchallah" is friendship | |in the overall offensive by |that lasts all life: in joy and sorrow. Highlanders hold | |international terrorism on the |friendship sacred. Inattentiveness or impoliteness shall be | |fundamental principles of modern|forgiven if they are displayed to a brother, but to a friend -| |civilisation. The facts show |never! "Nokhchallah" is special respect for women. A man | |that being a part of the Russian|dismounts his horse before entering the village where the | |Federation in no way threatens |relatives of his mother or his wife live. And here is a story | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|about a man who asked to spend a night in a house that stood | |identity, the free use of its |on the outskirts of a Chechen village, without knowing that | |own language, and preaching |she was alone. The hostess could not reject his request. She | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |gave him something to eat and made a bed for him. In the | |during de facto "independence" |morning, the man realized that the woman was alone and that | |from Russia that the Chechen |she had spent the night sitting by a lit lantern in the | |people suffered a humanitarian |anteroom. As he was hurriedly washing up, he brushed the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |woman's hand with his small finger by accodent. The man cut | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|the finger off with his knife before leaving that place. Only | |trade and plundering came to |a man brought up in the spirit of "nokhchallah" will go to | |form the economic basis of the |such pains to protect a woman's honor. "Nokhchallah" rules out| |new regime, while chaos and war |all attempts at subjugation. Male Chechens have, since times | |became the form of its political|immemorial, been brought up as protectors and trained to bear | |existence. We want to emphasise |arms. "Come at liberty" is the oldest of the greetings in | |once more: Chechnya is part of |actual use in Chechnya. The freedom of spirit and readiness to| |Russia , geographically, |fight to protect it is "nokhchallah." "Nokhchallah" demands | |politically and |that Chechens respect all other men, regardless of their | |civilisation-wise. So a |social origins, family background and religious beliefs. The | |hypothetical triumph of radical |bigger the difference between a Chechen and someone else, the | |Islamism on its territory would |more respect the Chechen shall accord that someone. You have a| |be anti-historical. Such a |chance to be forgiven for hurting a Moslem's feelings because,| |development would signify the |people say, you may meet the person whose feelings you have | |establishment in the midst of |hurt on Judgement Day. But all is lost if you have hurt the | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|feelings of a person of a different creed, because there is no| |with all ensuing consequences |chance of ever meeting him. The sin will stay with you | |for the international community.|forever. "Nokhchallah" is no book of do's and don't's. It is | |The corporate author - |of their own free will that the Chechens obey its rules. It is| |journalists of the Russian |a condensed | |Information Agency Novosti - |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |have attempted to be as brief as|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions | Chechen tarditions | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Chechnya : Questions and |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Answers". It draws heavily on | | |information provided by various |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Russian ministries and |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |departments that in one or |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |another way are involved in |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |normalising life in the |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |republic. |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Russian Information Agency |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Novosti |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |=eng] in detail ...) |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | | |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | | Chechen economics |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| | |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |The Niva State Farm Is Reviving |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Cattle-Breeding |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | | | | |[4707] In the Soviet-era times | Chechen cuisine | |the Niva State Farm of the Naur | | |District in Chechnya had 32,000 |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |sheep, and its only occupation |traditions| music | |was cattle-breeding. And what is|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |left from the former times today|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |are only pens and strips of |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |land, while the 70 per cent of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |the cattle-breeding farms have |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |been destroyed. So the only |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |thing the Niva State Farm could |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |do was to start growing plants. |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Now 5,700 hectares of arable |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |land are used to grow wheat, rye|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |, barley, and forage crops . |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |What the Niva farmers cant |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |develop themselves they lease. |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Even in 2003 that was very bad |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |for the Niva farmers they |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |harvested as much grain as was |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |enough for them to make almost |their own. | |all the necessary payments to |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |the workers - there are 83 of |eng] in detail ...) | |them on the state farm - and | | |create a seed reserve. A sore | - | |issue today is agricultural | | |equipment. According to the |## | |existing norms, the farm must | | |have 40 pieces of agricultural | Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |machinery at its disposal but it| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |has only 13. And there are only | | |2 combines on the Niva farm at | | |the moment. The farmers, | | |however, did not forget about | | |their farms former | | |specialization. The plans to | | |revive cattle-breeding are | | |concrete, says the Niva director| | |Khamzat Shundulayev. The | | |payments for the lease of the | | |arable land, pastures and the | | |preserved cattle-breeding | | |facilities could make a start. | | |And Chechnyas ministry of | | |agriculture has already | | |earmarked finances for the | | |purchasing of cattle. The | | |director is satisfied with his | | |farmers work. The people | | |understand, he says, that the | | |current are temporary | | |difficulties. Chechnyas | | |Constitution is now an | | |accomplished fact and its | | |president is elected as well, | | |which has inspired great hopes | | |in the hearts of the Chechen | | |people, who are now in a better | | |mood and full of enthusiasm. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion= | | |economeng] 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