The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 163 | | | 03.02.04 | |Another militants' base | | |destroyed in Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Another militants' base has been|[4762] 03 February 2004 An Internet Centre opened up in | |destroyed in Chechnya, says the |Grozny | |release of the regional |A new Internet Centre has opened up in central Grozny. The | |operational headquarters for the|Centre is located in three rooms, where visitors are welcome | |anti-terrorist operation in the |to make use of nine computers. One gets connected to the | |North Caucasus. According to the|Internet in a matter of seconds since the Centre uses a | |headquarters' data, the |satellite. Most visitors to the Internet Centre are college | |law-enforcement bodies found the|and university students. At the Centre they get what | |militant's base during their |information they may need for their classes and send e-mail | |operational and search |messages. Before they had to go to other Russian regions to do| |activities in the village of |that. The number of those wishing to browse through the | |Agishty in the Shali district. |worldwide web grows by the day. Nine PCs are clearly | |In the estimate of experts, the |insufficient, but more will be mounted at the Centre in the | |base was intended to accommodate|near future. | |and provide supplies to a group |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |of militants numbering about 20 |(more News from Chechnya...) | |people. Apart from that, | | |according to the headquarters' |02 February 2004 Chechnya receives first set of stoplights | |report, during their selective |Chechnya put its first set of stoplights into use on Saturday | |checks in the Gudermes district |after the two Chechen wars destroyed all the country's traffic| |the other day, the |lights, the Chechen Interior Ministry said. The lights are | |law-enforcement bodies detained |located in the center of the Chechen capital Grozny. "It's a | |one of the so-called emirs, a |sign that live is becoming normal," ministry spokesman Ruslan | |certain Sultan Atayev, a member |Atsayev told Interfax. Stoplights will be put up in other | |of a bandit formation. He |Chechen towns in the near future as well, he said. | |pointed to a hideout with |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |weapons belonging to the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |militants' group led by him. | | |"The hideout, located in the |02 February 2004 Reward offered for information on murderers | |mosque of the village of |of Chechen security officers | |Oiskhara in the Gudermes |Head of the Chechen presidential security service Ramzan | |district, contained a |Kadyrov said that all those involved in the attack against | |machine-gun, a sub-machine gun, |Chechen security officers will be caught within seven days. | |grenade launchers and |"The attack was carried out by rebels from the so-called | |ammunition," the headquarters' |Ichkerian armed forces. I have offered a reward of $200,000 | |release says. The |for information on the rebels' whereabouts," Ramzan Kadyrov | |law-enforcement bodies arrested |told Interfax. The assailants opened fire at the house of | |two more militants in the Sunzha|Sultan Dadayev, commander of the Alleroi group of the Chechen | |district. It was established |presidential security service. Dadayev and his four bodyguards| |that 22-year-old Bekkhan |were killed. One of the assailants was killed and four others | |Sovkhalov and 23-year old Sultan|wounded, Kadyrov said. "Akhmed Avturkhanov, the leader of the | |Amagov were members of the |group of assailants and commander of the Kurchaloi group of | |bandit formation led by emir |the Ichkerian armed forces, was also wounded," Kadyrov said. A| |Burkayev. "The law-enforcement |large-scale sweep operation involving officers from the | |bodies have already proved the |presidential security service was carried out in Chechen | |involvement of the detained |separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov's native village of Alleroi | |persons in the illegal arms |earlier this week. Head of the presidential security service | |sale. Work is underway to check |Ramzan Kadyrov said then that information had been received | |the involvement of Sovkhalov and|that the head of Aslan Maskhadov's personal guard and a group | |Amagov in other earlier |of rebels were hiding out in the village. He added that the | |committed crimes," the report |operation was also carried out to find weapons, ammunition and| |says. |home-made explosive devices. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |more...) | | | | Russia - Chechnya | |US secret services help Russia | | |locate Chechen terrorists | The pre-islamic customs, manifest in farming festivals | | | | |US secret services used |New year's eve | |electronic bugging systems and | | |satellite photos this past |[223] | |December to help Russia locate a|The traditional way to celebrate New Year's eve goes way back.| |Chechen terrorist gang, whose |The kindling of a new flame was a matter of utmost importance.| |members were wanted for murders |A new flame was to be burning in the fireplace when New Year's| |and kidnappings. The gang tried |meal was cooked. A long log was put in the fire. Its length | |to escape abroad via Dagestani |determined how long the family would be celebrating. As soon | |mountain ranges in southern |as the log allowed the door to close, a New Year's party, with| |Russia. (Dagestan is a North |many good things to eat and drink, with dancing and jesting, | |Caucasian republic, which |could begin. Sooner or later, all logs got shorter, so that | |borders on Chechnya - Ed.) This |every family would sooner or later start celebrating . New | |was disclosed February 2 by US |Year's logs were prepared in advance: a standing tree, most | |News And World Report. According|often an oak, was put to dry. It was a great sin to use fruit | |to this magazine, 37 bandits |trees for this purpose. The ancestors of today's Chechens | |were killed by Russian |believed that the forces of evil stepped up action on New | |commandos, artillery fire and |Year's eve. They would, for protection, scatter things made of| |air strikes, RIA Novosti |steel in the cattle-sheds and their living quarters. A | |reports. The magazine mentions |plentiful meal offered guarantees for the family's wellbeing | |this operation as an example of |in the year to come. All creatures, including mice, were to | |joint US-Russian anti-terrorist |have their bellies full on New Year's eve. Wheat breads were | |operations; as a rule, such |baked. The head, ritual bread was shaped as a circle, with | |operations are veiled in |lines radiating from its center. Breads with all kinds of | |secrecy. ([http:// |filling in them were baked in addition to the magic one. The | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |eldest member of the family got a square-shaped one while the | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |guests were treated to round breads. Coins, grains of wheat or| | |a spool of yarn might be hidden, for fortune-telling purposes,| | Chechen history |inside fancy breads. Other fortune-telling methods were | | |applied on New Year's eve. A man was, for example, chosen to | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|spend the night in the sanctuary. He would lie face down and | | |keep his ear pressed to the dirt floor and would, in the | |To Reader |morning, try to interpret what he had heard. The same kind of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |fortune-telling is known in Russia. A Russian village-dweller | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||would go to a crossroads, mark a circle and press his ear to | |traditions| music |the ground. If he heard a loaded sleigh swish heavily by, next| | |year's harvest would be good. If the sleigh seemed to be | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |empty, the harvest would be poor. Chechens knew a very special| |, a Russian territory which has |method of fortune-telling. They would hold to light a ram's | |witnessed the most tragic events|shoulder blade. Spots on the shoulder blade predicted whether | |over the past decade. The book |next year's harvest would be good, what kind of weather they | |is the latest update on the |were to expect and even family developments. A similar method | |Chechen Republic . And this is |of fortune-telling is known in China. Young girls took | |very important, since a lack of |advantage of New Year's eve in an effort to find out something| |fresh and accurate information |about their future husbands. A Chechen girl would bake three | |about events in Chechnya |very salty little breads. She would put two of them under her | |generates many distorted |pillow and eat the third. The person who gave her, in a dream,| |conceptions and rumours - both |a drink of water, was to become her husband. Young people or | |within and outside Russia . For |teenagers would put on their sheepskin coats the wrong side | |example, that Chechen society is|up, and either wear felt hoods decorated with horns or paint | |allegedly inherently alien to |their faces black with chimney soot. Such dress parades, as | |Russia , that pro-Russian |well as the custom of singing carols and begging for penny | |elements in the republic are |gifts, are, incidentally, known, till this day, in many | |marginalised; and lastly, that |countries of Europe and America. But horse races on the third | |Russian power structures are |day of a new year are held in Chechnya only. The three winners| |fighting the Chechen people, |should be given a horse, a saddle, a bridle, a whip or a piece| |rather than armed bandit groups.|of clothing. Nowadays, New Year's eve has nothing to do with | |The reality, however, is that |farming. Neither does it with Islam. People simply get | |only with the return of the |together on New Year's eve to say good-bye to the outgoing | |legitimate authorities are |year and to welcome in a new and, hopefully, much better year.| |villages and towns being |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |restored, children going to |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners | Chechen tarditions | |receiving long-forgotten | | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |referendum on a new Chechen |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |constitution, and parliamentary | | |and presidential elections. |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |These votes will be held, |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |despite continued attempts by |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |bandit groups and their leaders |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |to scupper the process of |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |normalisation in the republic, |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |the latest terrorist act being |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |the bombing of the republican |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |government building. The war |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |being waged by Chechen |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |separatists against federal |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |forces and more often than not |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |against their own co-citizens is|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |by no means a "national |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |liberation struggle of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Chechen people", but an episode |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the | Chechen cuisine | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |that being a part of the Russian|traditions| music | |Federation in no way threatens |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |identity, the free use of its |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |own language, and preaching |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |during de facto "independence" |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |from Russia that the Chechen |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |people suffered a humanitarian |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |tragedy on an unprecedented |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |trade and plundering came to |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |form the economic basis of the |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |new regime, while chaos and war |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |became the form of its political|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |existence. We want to emphasise |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |once more: Chechnya is part of |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Russia , geographically, |their own. | |politically and |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |civilisation-wise. So a |eng] in detail ...) | |hypothetical triumph of radical | | |Islamism on its territory would | - | |be anti-historical. Such a | | |development would signify the |## | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |with all ensuing consequences | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as| | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions | | |(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 | | |Russian ministries and | | |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 | | | | | |Chechnya revives its small | | |businesses | | | | | |[4597] The growing business | | |activity is a sign that shows | | |the situation in Chechnya is | | |stabilizing. In 2000 there were | | |300 companies that were engaged | | |in small businesses. Next year | | |the number exceeded 2000 and | | |last year 3180 small enterprises| | |and more than 10 000 businessmen| | |were registered at the state | | |statistical committee of | | |Chechnya. Their role in the | | |republic's economy has grown in | | |the past years. Farmers produce | | |35% grain and 80% meat. Small | | |enterprises perform 90% of | | |services and 70% of construction| | |and restoration works. Private | | |companies provide two thirds of | | |passenger and cargo transport. | | |New laws introduced in Russia to| | |promote small businesses also | | |stimulate activity in this area.| | |The registration of enterprises | | |in Chechnya is being carried out| | |at a taxation office as else | | |where in the country. The | | |businessmen get certificate of | | |registration six days after they| | |submitted their documents and | | |permissions to open a bank | | |account. A simplified procedure | | |of taxation has been introduced | | |for small business. A Chechen | | |government committee set up in | | |June 2000 to promote small | | |business and business | | |undertakings realizes the state | | |policy in this area. Republican | | |business center is functioning | | |in Grozny under the aegis of the| | |committee. It helps first and | | |foremost unemployed and trains | | |them how to carry out business | | |undertakings. Last year 780 | | |people completed management and | | |accountancy courses. The | | |government plans to open | | |business centers in rural areas.| | |To train teachers for district | | |business centers, Russia's small| | |business promoting fund has | | |given 300 000 rubles. The | | |republican business center plans| | |to move into a new 260-square | | |meter building in the city | | |center early next month from a | | |rented office. It hopes to help | | |young people who desire to start| | |their own business. Business | | |skills have been highly valued | | |in Chechnya. This is of utmost | | |important since the republic has| | |chosen the creative development | | |path. | | |([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