The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 164 | | | 06.02.04 | |Nearly 4,000 Chechen refugees | | |remain in tent camps in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Ingushetia | | | |[1443] 06 February 2004 Lonely Residents find shelter in | |Over 3,700 Chechen refugees |Groznys old peoples home | |remain in tent camps in |Groznys old peoples home was opened in 2003 with a few inmates| |neighboring Ingushetia, the |but now has 72. The home is currently under repairs and will | |first deputy chief of the |shortly welcome new inmates. Old residents are for now living | |Federal Migration Service Igor |3 in a room but after the repairs it will be 2 people in a | |Yunash told Itasr-Tass.. At |room. Inmates are fed 3 times a day with the Chechen labour | |present there are 48,700 |ministry and the Red Cross Society supplying full complement | |internally displaced persons in |of foodstuffs. There is a doctor in the home. Humanitarian | |Ingushetia. Most of them rent |organizations are helping with medicines and staff members are| |housing from private owners. |doing their best ,regularly washing and ironing bed clothes | |Since the beginning of the year |for inmates and blankets are dry cleaned and ironed also. | |about 800 people have returned |Staffers in the home strive hard to bring some fun to the | |to Chechnya from Ingushetia. The|elderly in the old peoples home in Grozny Chechen leaders are | |worst factor hindering the |frequent visitors to the home and on New Years Eve the Chechen| |return of Chechen refugees is |labour and social welfare minister visited the home. The | |the lack of housing. Deplorably |social policy section in the Grozny administration has a list | |those eager to return home |of 10 people wishing to go and live in the old peoples home | |exceed by far the accommodation |and the chief of the section, Nina Lorsayeva, says that more | |facilities available. Another |than a hundred people will find accommodation in the Groznys | |temporary accommodation center |old peoples home after the repairs. | |for 200 beds will open in Grozny|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |in the near future. The payment |(more News from Chechnya...) | |of compensations for lost | | |housing and property is one of |05 February 2004 State Duma deputies express dissatisfaction | |the main incentives for refugees|with German parlaments reception of Zakayev | |to return to Chechnya. At |Deputies of the State Duma (Lower Chamber) condemned their | |present 160 compensation |German colleagues in connection with the German Parliament's | |requests from Ingushetia are |reception of Chechen emissary Akhmed Zakayev. First Deputy | |being studied and another 600 |Chairman of the State Duma committee on foreign affairs Yuly | |are in the preparation phase. |Kvitsinsky met on Wednesday with FRG Foreign Ministry | |Compensations have been paid to |coordinator on public affairs with Russia, Vice-Chairman of | |800 forced refugees in |Bundestag SPD faction, Gernot Erler. In the course of the | |Ingushetia. The Federal |meeting with the German guest Kvitsinsky expressed his | |Migration Service official has |dissatisfaction with the German Parliament's reception given | |said people keep returning to |to Zakayev, he told journalists. "We consider him a criminal,"| |Chechnya. In several days time |Kvitsinsky stressed. "If they want to speak with Zakayev about| |the resolution will be signed to|Chechnya, then all the rest questions should be dealt with him| |close the refugee camp in |as well. However, if the German part wants to speak about | |Karabulakh, where 680 men, women|Chechnya with Russia, they will have to forget about Zakayev,"| |and children still remain. The |Kvitsinsky said. According to Kvitsinsky, Gernot Erler assured| |camps existence is no longer |him that Zakayev's visit was of no particular importance for | |feasible financially. About the |Germany and "the German society didn't turn its attention to | |likely date when the last tent |his visit." "Zakayev's visit was held upon the private | |camp in Ingushetia may be closed|invitation of the two Bundestag deputies," Gernot Erler | |Yunash explained that the |disclosed to a RIA Novosti correspondent. At the same time, he| |specific date has not been |mentioned that German deputies have a right to make private | |established yet, but if the |invitations. "In the course of the meeting with my Russian | |repatriation rate remains, the |colleague I told him that no official meetings were held and | |tents may be closed by March 1. |no official statements were made during Zakayev's visit," | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Gernot Erler said. Following the short dramatization of the | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Zakayev's visit to Germany by the Russian part, the dialogue | |more...) |between our countries has regained its positive level, Gernot | | |Erler underlined. | |Terrorist act in Moscow subway |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | | |(more News from Chechnya...) | |A subway-train car exploded at | | |8.45 a.m. in Moscow subway, with|05 February 2004 Ingush president, RF minister for Chechnya | |the authorities attributing this|discuss refugee return | |blast to a terrorist act. This |Ingush President Murat Zyazikov and Russian Minister for | |was disclosed to RIA-NOVOSTI by |Chechen Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov met in Magas to discuss the | |Sergei Ignatchenko, chief of the|return of refugees from Ingushetia to Chechnya. The minister | |Federal Security Service's |for Chechen affairs stressed the positive dynamics of this | |public-relations department. |process noting that people are returning voluntarily, the | |President Vladimir Putin of the |Ingush presidential press service told Itar-Tass. Ilyasov | |Russian Federation was promptly |thanked the Ingush people for hospitality and aid provided to | |informed about the tragedy, |refugees noting that their accommodation was a big burden for | |reports the presidential press |the republic. He noted that under a Russian governmental | |service. Passengers, who |ordinance the housing in Ingushetia will be built for many | |suffered as a result of the |Chechen citizens of the Ingush stock who decided not to return| |blast, are now being evacuated |to Chechnya. About 50,000 refugees from Chechnya are | |from Paveletskaya station. |accommodated in Ingushetia at present and 4,500 of them live | |Officials at the local |in tent camps, Zyazikov said at the meeting. The rest of them | |civil-defense and |live in the private sector. 19,000 refugees mainly Ingushs | |emergency-situations department |decided not to return to Chechnya. | |noted that the blast had | | |occurred, while the train was | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |moving along the | | |Zamoskvoretskaya line from | Russia - Chechnya | |Paveletskaya to Avtozavodskaya | | |station. Dozens of ambulance | The pre-islamic customs, manifest in farming festivals | |teams are now working at the | | |scene ([http:// |New year's eve | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |[223] | | |The traditional way to celebrate New Year's eve goes way back.| | Chechen history |The kindling of a new flame was a matter of utmost importance.| | |A new flame was to be burning in the fireplace when New Year's| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|meal was cooked. A long log was put in the fire. Its length | | |determined how long the family would be celebrating. As soon | |To Reader |as the log allowed the door to close, a New Year's party, with| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |many good things to eat and drink, with dancing and jesting, | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||could begin. Sooner or later, all logs got shorter, so that | |traditions| music |every family would sooner or later start celebrating . New | | |Year's logs were prepared in advance: a standing tree, most | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |often an oak, was put to dry. It was a great sin to use fruit | |, a Russian territory which has |trees for this purpose. The ancestors of today's Chechens | |witnessed the most tragic events|believed that the forces of evil stepped up action on New | |over the past decade. The book |Year's eve. They would, for protection, scatter things made of| |is the latest update on the |steel in the cattle-sheds and their living quarters. A | |Chechen Republic . And this is |plentiful meal offered guarantees for the family's wellbeing | |very important, since a lack of |in the year to come. All creatures, including mice, were to | |fresh and accurate information |have their bellies full on New Year's eve. Wheat breads were | |about events in Chechnya |baked. The head, ritual bread was shaped as a circle, with | |generates many distorted |lines radiating from its center. Breads with all kinds of | |conceptions and rumours - both |filling in them were baked in addition to the magic one. The | |within and outside Russia . For |eldest member of the family got a square-shaped one while the | |example, that Chechen society is|guests were treated to round breads. Coins, grains of wheat or| |allegedly inherently alien to |a spool of yarn might be hidden, for fortune-telling purposes,| |Russia , that pro-Russian |inside fancy breads. Other fortune-telling methods were | |elements in the republic are |applied on New Year's eve. A man was, for example, chosen to | |marginalised; and lastly, that |spend the night in the sanctuary. He would lie face down and | |Russian power structures are |keep his ear pressed to the dirt floor and would, in the | |fighting the Chechen people, |morning, try to interpret what he had heard. The same kind of | |rather than armed bandit groups.|fortune-telling is known in Russia. A Russian village-dweller | |The reality, however, is that |would go to a crossroads, mark a circle and press his ear to | |only with the return of the |the ground. If he heard a loaded sleigh swish heavily by, next| |legitimate authorities are |year's harvest would be good. If the sleigh seemed to be | |villages and towns being |empty, the harvest would be poor. Chechens knew a very special| |restored, children going to |method of fortune-telling. They would hold to light a ram's | |school for the first time in |shoulder blade. Spots on the shoulder blade predicted whether | |many years, and pensioners |next year's harvest would be good, what kind of weather they | |receiving long-forgotten |were to expect and even family developments. A similar method | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |of fortune-telling is known in China. Young girls took | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |advantage of New Year's eve in an effort to find out something| |referendum on a new Chechen |about their future husbands. A Chechen girl would bake three | |constitution, and parliamentary |very salty little breads. She would put two of them under her | |and presidential elections. |pillow and eat the third. The person who gave her, in a dream,| |These votes will be held, |a drink of water, was to become her husband. Young people or | |despite continued attempts by |teenagers would put on their sheepskin coats the wrong side | |bandit groups and their leaders |up, and either wear felt hoods decorated with horns or paint | |to scupper the process of |their faces black with chimney soot. Such dress parades, as | |normalisation in the republic, |well as the custom of singing carols and begging for penny | |the latest terrorist act being |gifts, are, incidentally, known, till this day, in many | |the bombing of the republican |countries of Europe and America. But horse races on the third | |government building. The war |day of a new year are held in Chechnya only. The three winners| |being waged by Chechen |should be given a horse, a saddle, a bridle, a whip or a piece| |separatists against federal |of clothing. Nowadays, New Year's eve has nothing to do with | |forces and more often than not |farming. Neither does it with Islam. People simply get | |against their own co-citizens is|together on New Year's eve to say good-bye to the outgoing | |by no means a "national |year and to welcome in a new and, hopefully, much better year.| |liberation struggle of the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |Chechen people", but an episode |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the | Chechen tarditions | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |that being a part of the Russian|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Federation in no way threatens |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |own language, and preaching |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |during de facto "independence" |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |from Russia that the Chechen |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |people suffered a humanitarian |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |tragedy on an unprecedented |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |trade and plundering came to |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |form the economic basis of the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |new regime, while chaos and war |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |became the form of its political|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |existence. We want to emphasise |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |once more: Chechnya is part of |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Russia , geographically, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |politically and |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical | Chechen cuisine | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |development would signify the |traditions| music | |establishment in the midst of |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |with all ensuing consequences |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |for the international community.|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |The corporate author - |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |journalists of the Russian |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Information Agency Novosti - |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |have attempted to be as brief as|written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |possible on providing answers to|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |the most-often aked questions |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |(above all posed by a foreign |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |audience) about the Chechen |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Chechnya : Questions and |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Answers". It draws heavily on |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |information provided by various |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Russian ministries and |their own. | |departments that in one or |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |another way are involved in |eng] in detail ...) | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | - | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti |## | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| Copyright ? [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |=eng] in detail ...) | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | | | | | 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