The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 165 | | | 10.02.04 | |Sergei Mironov: EU lawmakers | | |should be shown blasted coach to|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |understand Chechnya | | | |[2545] 10 February 2004 Local physicians in Benoi-Yurt | |It would be useful for deputies |The rural hospital in the village of Benoi-Yurt of the | |of the European parliament to |Hadterechny district has 25 beds, ten in the pediatric and 15 | |have a look at the blasted coach|in the general wards. Since the rural clinic is functioning at| |of the Moscow Metro. This would |the hospital patients visiting clinic can be admitted to the | |help them to assess correctly |hospital immediately in case if there is a need. Hospital has | |the situation in Chechnya, |an ambulance service too. A group of doctors is always ready | |speaker of the Federation |to response to calls. The patients in the hospital get food | |Council upper chamber Sergei |three times a day. And patients are satisfied with its | |Mironov said at a press |quality. Medical service is also quite good. The fund of | |conference in St. Petersburg at |essential medical insurance maintains the hospital. The | |the Itar-Tass regional office. |patients are treated free-of-charge. The chief physician of | |In the speakers opinion, |the hospital Aishat Tazbieva says that people suffering from | |recommendations of the European |respiratory, digestion, infectious and nervous diseases mainly| |parliament to Russia on |come to the hospital. Hospital has everything needed to treat | |expediency of talks with Aslan |these people. If the illness is serious then patient is taken | |Maskhadov, which sounded on the |to the central district hospital. Aishat Tazbieva is worried | |eve of the Moscow terrorist act,|that the hospital has no maternity ward owing to lack of | |looked out of place and |space. Pregnant women are being sent to the district hospital.| |provocative. Mironov emphasized |The local hospital controls only the condition of pregnant | |that stabilization in Russia, |women. Aishat Tazbieva says that the doctors at the hospital | |and especially in the Chechen |are also engaged in forming health way of life in each family | |Republic, is unprofitable for |and the society as a whole. This is the reason why doctors | |somebody, but it is really going|give sanitary education to people and focus on childrens | |on. The speaker called brutes |health. Villagers express gratitude to the local physicians. | |those who ordered the terrorist |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |act in the Moscow underground. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |He said that it is impossible to| | |abet at terrorism in any |09 February 2004 Investigators probe into three versions of | |manifestations and forms. |subway bomb blast | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Three days after the Moscow subway train bomb blast the | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |investigators from the federal security service FSB, the | |more...) |Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor Generals Office keeping | | |probing into three versions of the tragedy. A terrorist attack| |Over 700 militants eliminated in|by a suicide bomber is the main one, a representative of the | |Chechnya in 2003 |investigation team has told Itar-Tass. There is also a | | |possibility an explosive device had been planted in the subway| |Over 700 militants were |train car beforehand. An unintentional detonation of an | |eliminated and 2,000 people |explosive substance is the third, least probable version, but | |suspected of terrorism were |it has not been brushed aside completely yet. An individual | |detained during special |may have carried an explosive device without an intention of | |operations in Chechnya in 2003, |committing a bomb attack at this particular place and moment. | |Deputy Director of the Russian |Bomb disposal specialists are yet to determine the type of the| |Federal Security Service (FSB) |explosive device, its yield and size, who could plant it and | |Vyacheslav Ushakov said at a |how. FSB specialists have continued examining the exploded | |seminar for the newly elected |train car for the past two days round the clock gathering all | |State Duma deputies, RIA Novosti|tiniest pieces of evidence that might provide clues as to the | |reports. Over 80 sabotage and |type of the bomb and explosives used and the mode of their | |terrorist attacks on servicemen |transportation crucial to identifying the attackers. | |and facilities of federal forces|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |were prevented in Chechnya, |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Ushakov said. In his words, 74 | | |people involved in explosions |09 February 2004 Sergei Ivanov: majority of foreign | |were arrested and 18 of them |mercenaries killed in Chechnya were Turkish nationals | |were convicted. Up to 3,500 |The majority of foreign mercenaries killed in Chechnya were | |units of firearms and over 4 |Turkish nationals, the fact that "will hamper the development | |tons of explosives were seized |of Russian-Turkish relations," Russian Defense Minister Sergei| |on Chechen territory. Last year |Ivanov said in Munich on Friday. Mr Ivanov has arrived in | |more than 900,000 attempts of |Munich for an international conference on security and defence| |illegal entry into state |issues. Terrorist groups dealing in Chechnya involve nationals| |information resources were |of many countries. However, Turkish residents have made a | |stopped, said the Deputy |lion's share of mercenaries lately, the minister told | |Director of the Russian Federal |reporters. Mr Ivanov then reported on a Turkish mercenary who | |Security Service. According to |was killed in Chechnya the other day. He was carrying arms and| |him, 112 criminal cases were |a video tape on which he addresses militants in Turkish. | |initiated in the sphere of |Moscow has got accustomed to see Georgian visas in the | |computer safety and 25 people |passports of international terrorists who infiltrate Chechnya,| |were convicted. ([http:// |said Mr Ivanov. Russia wants its relations with NATO members | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |and other countries to develop with due heed to mutual | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |interests, emphasized the minister. He spoke out against | | |"double standards" and urged that cooperation should develop | | Chechen history |not barely in word but in deed. | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| ------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | |To Reader | Russia - Chechnya | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| The pre-islamic customs, manifest in farming festivals | |traditions| music | | | |New year's eve | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya | | |, a Russian territory which has |[223] | |witnessed the most tragic events|The traditional way to celebrate New Year's eve goes way back.| |over the past decade. The book |The kindling of a new flame was a matter of utmost importance.| |is the latest update on the |A new flame was to be burning in the fireplace when New Year's| |Chechen Republic . And this is |meal was cooked. A long log was put in the fire. Its length | |very important, since a lack of |determined how long the family would be celebrating. As soon | |fresh and accurate information |as the log allowed the door to close, a New Year's party, with| |about events in Chechnya |many good things to eat and drink, with dancing and jesting, | |generates many distorted |could begin. Sooner or later, all logs got shorter, so that | |conceptions and rumours - both |every family would sooner or later start celebrating . New | |within and outside Russia . For |Year's logs were prepared in advance: a standing tree, most | |example, that Chechen society is|often an oak, was put to dry. It was a great sin to use fruit | |allegedly inherently alien to |trees for this purpose. The ancestors of today's Chechens | |Russia , that pro-Russian |believed that the forces of evil stepped up action on New | |elements in the republic are |Year's eve. They would, for protection, scatter things made of| |marginalised; and lastly, that |steel in the cattle-sheds and their living quarters. A | |Russian power structures are |plentiful meal offered guarantees for the family's wellbeing | |fighting the Chechen people, |in the year to come. All creatures, including mice, were to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|have their bellies full on New Year's eve. Wheat breads were | |The reality, however, is that |baked. The head, ritual bread was shaped as a circle, with | |only with the return of the |lines radiating from its center. Breads with all kinds of | |legitimate authorities are |filling in them were baked in addition to the magic one. The | |villages and towns being |eldest member of the family got a square-shaped one while the | |restored, children going to |guests were treated to round breads. Coins, grains of wheat or| |school for the first time in |a spool of yarn might be hidden, for fortune-telling purposes,| |many years, and pensioners |inside fancy breads. Other fortune-telling methods were | |receiving long-forgotten |applied on New Year's eve. A man was, for example, chosen to | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |spend the night in the sanctuary. He would lie face down and | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |keep his ear pressed to the dirt floor and would, in the | |referendum on a new Chechen |morning, try to interpret what he had heard. The same kind of | |constitution, and parliamentary |fortune-telling is known in Russia. A Russian village-dweller | |and presidential elections. |would go to a crossroads, mark a circle and press his ear to | |These votes will be held, |the ground. If he heard a loaded sleigh swish heavily by, next| |despite continued attempts by |year's harvest would be good. If the sleigh seemed to be | |bandit groups and their leaders |empty, the harvest would be poor. Chechens knew a very special| |to scupper the process of |method of fortune-telling. They would hold to light a ram's | |normalisation in the republic, |shoulder blade. Spots on the shoulder blade predicted whether | |the latest terrorist act being |next year's harvest would be good, what kind of weather they | |the bombing of the republican |were to expect and even family developments. A similar method | |government building. The war |of fortune-telling is known in China. Young girls took | |being waged by Chechen |advantage of New Year's eve in an effort to find out something| |separatists against federal |about their future husbands. A Chechen girl would bake three | |forces and more often than not |very salty little breads. She would put two of them under her | |against their own co-citizens is|pillow and eat the third. The person who gave her, in a dream,| |by no means a "national |a drink of water, was to become her husband. Young people or | |liberation struggle of the |teenagers would put on their sheepskin coats the wrong side | |Chechen people", but an episode |up, and either wear felt hoods decorated with horns or paint | |in the overall offensive by |their faces black with chimney soot. Such dress parades, as | |international terrorism on the |well as the custom of singing carols and begging for penny | |fundamental principles of modern|gifts, are, incidentally, known, till this day, in many | |civilisation. The facts show |countries of Europe and America. But horse races on the third | |that being a part of the Russian|day of a new year are held in Chechnya only. The three winners| |Federation in no way threatens |should be given a horse, a saddle, a bridle, a whip or a piece| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|of clothing. Nowadays, New Year's eve has nothing to do with | |identity, the free use of its |farming. Neither does it with Islam. People simply get | |own language, and preaching |together on New Year's eve to say good-bye to the outgoing | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |year and to welcome in a new and, hopefully, much better year.| |during de facto "independence" |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |from Russia that the Chechen |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |people suffered a humanitarian | | |tragedy on an unprecedented | Chechen tarditions | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |form the economic basis of the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |new regime, while chaos and war |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |once more: Chechnya is part of |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Russia , geographically, |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |politically and |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |civilisation-wise. So a |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |hypothetical triumph of radical |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Islamism on its territory would |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |be anti-historical. Such a |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |development would signify the |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |establishment in the midst of |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |with all ensuing consequences |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |for the international community.|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |The corporate author - |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |journalists of the Russian |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Information Agency Novosti - |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |have attempted to be as brief as| | |possible on providing answers to| Chechen cuisine | |the most-often aked questions | | |(above all posed by a foreign |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |audience) about the Chechen |traditions| music | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Chechnya : Questions and |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Answers". It draws heavily on |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |information provided by various |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Russian ministries and |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |departments that in one or |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |another way are involved in |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |normalising life in the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |republic. |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Russian Information Agency |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Novosti |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |=eng] in detail ...) |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | | |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | Chechen economics |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | | |their own. | |Chechnya revives its small |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |businesses |eng] in detail ...) | | | | |[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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |in small businesses. Next year | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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