The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 169 | | | 24.02.04 | |Moscow denies forcing Chechen | | |refugees to return home |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Moscow has officially denied |24 February 2004 Planner of bandit activity in Grozny killed | |accusations that the Russian |in Ingushetia | |authorities have been pressing |A Chechen bandit leader Khamzat Tazabayev and his three gunmen| |on the Chechen refugees staying |have been killed in the Nazran district, the Russian North | |in Ingushetia to return to |Caucasus republic of Ingushetia a source at the headquarters | |Chechnya. "We have repeatedly |of the federal forces in the region told Tass. According to | |emphasized that voluntariness |the source, Tazabayev had been the closest accomplice of | |must be the fundamental |Chechen notorious bandit leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan | |principle of the return of |Maskhadov and coordinated bandit groups operations in the | |displaced persons from |Chechen capital. | |Ingushetia to Chechnya," Deputy |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov |(more News from Chechnya...) | |told Interfax. A number of media| | |outlets reported earlier on |24 February 2004 Groznys oil Institutes method introduced in | |Saturday that the Office of the |production | |UN High Commissioner for |Toward the end of January, 2004, an all-Russia scientific | |Refugees had accused the Russian|applied conference, called Academic and Institutional science | |authorities of actually forcing |for Chechen economy, was held in the Russian academy of | |the refugees to return to |sciences headquarters in Moscow. Experts from the Grozny oil | |Chechnya from Ingushetia. "I |Institute took part in the conference. Doctor of technical | |have not seen such accusations |science and head of faculty, professor Deni Batayev, who spoke| |so far. It would have been |at the conference said that scientists of the Institute have | |strange if the UNHCR Office had |developed a number of systems being successfully used in | |come up with such a statement," |production and among them are investment projects and the | |Fedotov said. "In any case, |mechanism of realizing investment programmes. The concept of | |statements of this kind - |how to restore both the Chechen economy and social life is | |whether they have been made or |under development. There are a number of theoretical | |not - could cause only |developments in the production of building materials and their| |perplexity. They do not reflect |technology. Some of them are being jointly realized with the | |the reality and contradict the |Moscow building engineering University . Among them are the | |position of the Russian |production of small-grained composition and concrete for | |government," he said. |repairs and restoration work. The workouts have received the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Russian academy of architectural and construction sciences | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |high award. The developments made provision for ecology | |more...) |demands. Deni Batayev also spoke about the active | | |participation in the researches by students and young teachers| |Cars without license plates were|of the Grozny oil Institute. More than 6 thousand students | |seized in Grozny |currently study in the institute and it has a high reputation.| | |The number of prospective students wanting to study in the | |A large-scale operation took |institute increases year by year and many of the senior course| |part in Grozny to search and |students dream of working in the Grozny oil research institute| |seize all vehicles that don't |after graduation so that together with older staff members can| |have state license plates. Chief|take part in solving specific tasks of restoring the republics| |of the Chechen presidential |oil sector as well as in developing new technology, that can | |security service Ramzan Kadyrov |be applied in different areas of the Chechen economy now being| |said all of the security |resurrected. | |service's personnel and road |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |police officers were |(more News from Chechnya...) | |participating in the operation. | | |On Monday, over 70 cars without |23 February 2004 Scientific Research in Chechnya Last Year | |license plates had been brought |Chechnya made a breakthrough in scientific research last year.| |to a parking area which is being|According to the head of the complex scientific research | |monitored and regulated by the |institute, president of the Chechen Academy of Sciences, | |road police, he said. Kadyrov |Khamzat Ibragimov, this was possible owing to the contribution| |said checkpoints have been set |made by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The money given by | |up at virtually all crossroads |the RAS was used to buy equipment for carrying out research in| |in Grozny. "Vehicles without |physics, chemistry and mechanics and reconstruction of the | |license plates are being seized |institute. Now Chechen scientists can do not only theoretical | |regardless of who is at the |research but also practical. There is no need for them to go | |wheel, whether it's an ordinary |to other Russian regions. Some time earlier Chechen experts | |person, a minister, or a law |had to carry out research at the institutes in Moscow or | |enforcement officer," he said. |Kabardino-Balkar University. The Academy of sciences is | |He noted that most crimes in |engaged in preparing a fundamental scientific work on Chechen | |Chechnya are carried out by cars|history. The first volume is expected to publish later this | |without license plates. Kadyrov |year. Philologists are working on the creation of a Chechen | |said no one had been harmed in |grammar book, which consists of two volumes and will be | |the operation, and the situation|released from press this year. 15 residents of Chechnya have | |in Grozny remained calm on |lately defended their postgraduate theses and another five | |Monday. While speaking at a |gained doctorates. Theses on science subjects were defended at| |meeting in Grozny commemorating |Kabardino-Balkar University where Khamzat Ibragimov is a | |the 60th anniversary of the |member of several Scientific Councils. The Academy of Sciences| |deportation of the Chechen |has been recently working on the setting up of Scientific | |people and marking the Defenders|Councils at the Complex Scientific Research Institute and | |of the Fatherland Day, Chechen |Grozny University. Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov does his | |President Akhmad Kadyrov said |best to help the Academy. Last year he defended his Ph. D. | |that when he was traveling to |thesis on political science at the Institute of Social and | |work that day, he counted over |Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in | |five cars without license plates|Moscow. | |over an 8-kilometer stretch | | |between Argun and Grozny. He | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |demanded that the problem be | | |taken care of as soon as | Russia - Chechnya | |possible. ([http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | The pre-islamic customs, manifest in farming festivals | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) | | | |New year's eve | | Chechen history | | | |[223] | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|The traditional way to celebrate New Year's eve goes way back.| | |The kindling of a new flame was a matter of utmost importance.| |To Reader |A new flame was to be burning in the fireplace when New Year's| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |meal was cooked. A long log was put in the fire. Its length | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||determined how long the family would be celebrating. As soon | |traditions| music |as the log allowed the door to close, a New Year's party, with| | |many good things to eat and drink, with dancing and jesting, | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |could begin. Sooner or later, all logs got shorter, so that | |, a Russian territory which has |every family would sooner or later start celebrating . New | |witnessed the most tragic events|Year's logs were prepared in advance: a standing tree, most | |over the past decade. The book |often an oak, was put to dry. It was a great sin to use fruit | |is the latest update on the |trees for this purpose. The ancestors of today's Chechens | |Chechen Republic . And this is |believed that the forces of evil stepped up action on New | |very important, since a lack of |Year's eve. They would, for protection, scatter things made of| |fresh and accurate information |steel in the cattle-sheds and their living quarters. A | |about events in Chechnya |plentiful meal offered guarantees for the family's wellbeing | |generates many distorted |in the year to come. All creatures, including mice, were to | |conceptions and rumours - both |have their bellies full on New Year's eve. Wheat breads were | |within and outside Russia . For |baked. The head, ritual bread was shaped as a circle, with | |example, that Chechen society is|lines radiating from its center. Breads with all kinds of | |allegedly inherently alien to |filling in them were baked in addition to the magic one. The | |Russia , that pro-Russian |eldest member of the family got a square-shaped one while the | |elements in the republic are |guests were treated to round breads. Coins, grains of wheat or| |marginalised; and lastly, that |a spool of yarn might be hidden, for fortune-telling purposes,| |Russian power structures are |inside fancy breads. Other fortune-telling methods were | |fighting the Chechen people, |applied on New Year's eve. A man was, for example, chosen to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|spend the night in the sanctuary. He would lie face down and | |The reality, however, is that |keep his ear pressed to the dirt floor and would, in the | |only with the return of the |morning, try to interpret what he had heard. The same kind of | |legitimate authorities are |fortune-telling is known in Russia. A Russian village-dweller | |villages and towns being |would go to a crossroads, mark a circle and press his ear to | |restored, children going to |the ground. If he heard a loaded sleigh swish heavily by, next| |school for the first time in |year's harvest would be good. If the sleigh seemed to be | |many years, and pensioners |empty, the harvest would be poor. Chechens knew a very special| |receiving long-forgotten |method of fortune-telling. They would hold to light a ram's | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |shoulder blade. Spots on the shoulder blade predicted whether | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |next year's harvest would be good, what kind of weather they | |referendum on a new Chechen |were to expect and even family developments. A similar method | |constitution, and parliamentary |of fortune-telling is known in China. Young girls took | |and presidential elections. |advantage of New Year's eve in an effort to find out something| |These votes will be held, |about their future husbands. A Chechen girl would bake three | |despite continued attempts by |very salty little breads. She would put two of them under her | |bandit groups and their leaders |pillow and eat the third. The person who gave her, in a dream,| |to scupper the process of |a drink of water, was to become her husband. Young people or | |normalisation in the republic, |teenagers would put on their sheepskin coats the wrong side | |the latest terrorist act being |up, and either wear felt hoods decorated with horns or paint | |the bombing of the republican |their faces black with chimney soot. Such dress parades, as | |government building. The war |well as the custom of singing carols and begging for penny | |being waged by Chechen |gifts, are, incidentally, known, till this day, in many | |separatists against federal |countries of Europe and America. But horse races on the third | |forces and more often than not |day of a new year are held in Chechnya only. The three winners| |against their own co-citizens is|should be given a horse, a saddle, a bridle, a whip or a piece| |by no means a "national |of clothing. Nowadays, New Year's eve has nothing to do with | |liberation struggle of the |farming. Neither does it with Islam. People simply get | |Chechen people", but an episode |together on New Year's eve to say good-bye to the outgoing | |in the overall offensive by |year and to welcome in a new and, hopefully, much better year.| |international terrorism on the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |fundamental principles of modern|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian| Chechen tarditions | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |identity, the free use of its |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |own language, and preaching |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |from Russia that the Chechen |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |people suffered a humanitarian |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |tragedy on an unprecedented |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |trade and plundering came to |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |form the economic basis of the |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |new regime, while chaos and war |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |became the form of its political|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |existence. We want to emphasise |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |once more: Chechnya is part of |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |Russia , geographically, |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |politically and |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |civilisation-wise. So a |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |hypothetical triumph of radical |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Islamism on its territory would |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |be anti-historical. Such a | | |development would signify the | Chechen cuisine | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |with all ensuing consequences |traditions| music | |for the international community.|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |The corporate author - |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |journalists of the Russian |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Information Agency Novosti - |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |have attempted to be as brief as|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |possible on providing answers to|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |the most-often aked questions |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |(above all posed by a foreign |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |audience) about the Chechen |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Chechnya : Questions and |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Answers". It draws heavily on |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |information provided by various |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Russian ministries and |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |departments that in one or |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |another way are involved in |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |normalising life in the |their own. | |republic. |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Russian Information Agency |eng] in detail ...) | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | - | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) |## | | | | | Chechen economics | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | | | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Russian scholars and college | | |professors try to help Chechnya | | | | | |[4047] The Institute of | | |ethnology and anthropology of | | |the Russian Academy of Sciences,| | |the Academy's Complex Research | | |Center in Grozny , the Chechen | | |Ministry of Industry, | | |Transportation and | | |Communications, and the Chechen | | |Humanitarian Aid Foundation have| | |held a nationwide conference in | | |Moscow . They aimed to find out | | |what scholars and college | | |professors of the Russian | | |Federation could do for the | | |reconstruction and development | | |of the Chechen economy. The | | |International Foundation for the| | |the revival and development of | | |Chechen State University had | | |done much in the effort to | | |arrange this conference. The | | |conference brought together | | |policy-makers, scholars, and | | |journalists of Russian and | | |Chechen background. Dr.Dena | | |Batayev addressed industrial | | |recovery and prospects for | | |housing construction in Chechnya| | |. In Batayev's view, Chechnya | | |was really doing something in | | |this field, and, in terms of the| | |immediate needs of the Chechen | | |republic, it was necessary, to | | |rebuild 25% to 30% of the plant | | |that used to turn out housing | | |construction materials: several | | |steel concrete plants and the | | |Argun plant for prefabbed | | |housing construction. All the | | |other plants must, in | | |Dr.Batayev's view, be reoriented| | |for solid housing construction | | |which is best suited for | | |seismic-sensitive Chechnya . | | |Reconstruction and construction | | |projects require a complex | | |approach - such was the basic | | |message of Dr.Batayev's speech. | | |Construction projects require | | |financial backing but Chechnya | | |has enough material reserves and| | |an adequate number of working | | |men for a full-scale | | |construction and reconstruction | | |effort. It all boils down, as it| | |always does, to the problem of | | |cadre. Experts in housing | | |construction are trained at the | | |Construction Department of the | | |Grozny Oil College named after | | |Dr.Dmitry Millionschikov. Sergei| | |Arutyunov, who heads the | | |Caucasus Department of the | | |Institute of Ethnology of the | | |Russian Academy of Sciences, | | |also addressed the conference. | | |He is confident that fundamental| | |research in Chechnya will return| | |to, if not surpass, its level of| | |the 90's of the past century, | | |thanks, in a great measure, to | | |the relative stabilization of | | |the situation. Arutyunov pins | | |hope on the Chechen | | |intellectuals who ought to | | |safeguard and enrich the | | |cultural potential of Chechnya. | | |([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