The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 170 | | | 27.02.04 | |Igor Ivanov: Militants in | | |Chechnya have no future |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The number of militants in |27 February 2004 Qatar authorities to try two Russian | |Chechnya is decreasing, and they|citizens | |have no future, Russian acting |Two Russian citizens being accused by Qatar authorities of | |Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov |helping assassinate former Chechen president Zelimkhan | |told the Al Arabia television |Yandarbiyev will stand open trial, reports the London-based | |channel. "The Chechen people |Al-Hayat newspaper, which comes out in Arabic. According to | |understands it right who to |its sources, both suspects were taken to a court in Doha, the | |follow," Mr. Ivanov said. In his|capital of Qatar, February 26 under heavy guard, with the | |words, it's generally known that|judge indicting them. Qatar's Ar-Raya newspaper writes that | |international terrorist |the third suspect, who has a diplomatic passport, was released| |organizations wanted to use |after Mikhail Bogdanov, a high-ranking Russian Foreign | |Chechnya as a platform to spread|Ministry envoy, met Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad | |their influence in the North |Al-Thani February 21. Qatar's secret services arrested three | |Caucasus. Facts have been |Russian citizens, who were working temporarily for the Russian| |established confirming that the |Embassy, in the early hours of February 19. One of them was | |militants prepared by Al Qaeda |subsequently released; that man is now staying at the Russian | |in Afghanistan were heading for |Embassy. Moscow has repeatedly said that the three Russian | |Chechnya, Mr. Ivanov said. "The |citizens, who were detained in Qatar, were not involved in | |presidential elections were |Yandarbiyev's assassination; moreover, the Russian side | |held; the Chechen people is |demanded their release. Acting Russian foreign minister Igor | |restoring the republic, and it's|Ivanov issued a special statement on this score. Neither | |the most graphic evidence that |Russia, nor the detained Russian citizens, had anything to do | |the hardest period in its |with Yandarbiyev's assassination, Ivanov noted. In his words, | |history is gone. I appreciate it|the Russian side has repeatedly informed Qatar authorities | |that in Moslem states they |about this via all channels, diplomatic channels, first and | |understand these problems," said|foremost. Reporters wanted to know the departmental | |the acting foreign minister. He |affiliation of the detained Russian citizens. Replying to this| |emphasized that Moscow had and |question, Ivanov said that all Russian secret services were | |has a tough position in regard |now fighting international terrorism on a par with all other | |to terrorists. "All militants |foreign secret services. | |have to know that they will |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |answer for their crimes sooner |(more News from Chechnya...) | |or later. Most terrorists who | | |committed crimes in Moscow and |[1521] 27 February 2004 Future Champions from Shali | |other cities have been or will |The sports school for children and youth in the Shali district| |be seized. We will not stop |is famous for training champions. The school team won the | |until they are brought to |sport schools' football championship of the Soviet Union in | |account for crimes against |1980. Two old boys of the school won Russia' championship in | |innocent people," concluded Mr. |boxing, another one in taekwondo. Six former students have won| |Ivanov. |silver medals and another two bronze medals in several | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |championships in the country. A prominent trainer Magomed | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Mustapaev heads the school. He holds the title of an Excellent| |more...) |Teacher of the Soviet Union, and Merited Worker in physical | | |training and sports. He was awarded the title of Chechnya's | |Yastrzhembsky: Russia to stick |Merited Teacher in 2002. He has trained thousands of talented | |to its policy in Chechnya |sportsmen in his 38-year career. Among them are the holders of| | |titles such as Master of Sport and Master of International | |Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the |Grade and winners of national and international championships | |Russian presidents aide for |and qualified trainers. Magomed Mustapaev considers the | |Chechen affairs, said that Arian|training of new champions as his main task. Though the school | |Erkel, an abducted Dutch worker |has accommodation for 780 students more than one thousand | |of the Doctors without Borders |children and youth attend several sectors. The director admits| |organization, was alive. He said|all who wish to go on sport. The school has classes in | |that Erkel who had been in |wrestling, boxing, taekwondo, football and volleyball. Since | |Chechen captivity since 2002 was|the school has no its own building classes are being held in | |in good health but didnt name |sport-halls of other schools in the district. The staff has | |the exact date for his release. |prepared a good ring in Belgotoe, a hall for wrestling in | |Yastrzhembsky told foreign |Avturakh. A shop in Mesker-Yurt has been converted into a | |reporters in Brussels that |boxing ring. Magomed Mustapaev believes that the students will| |Russian security services had |perform successful this year than that of last year. | |been assigned with the task of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |liberating Erkel. He noted that |(more News from Chechnya...) | |hostage-release operations | | |involve great risks for security|25 February 2004 Heat restored to Chechen refugee camps after| |agents, many of who died when |UN criticism | |liberating foreign hostages in |Heating has been restored at Chechen refugee camps in | |the Caucasus in previous years. |Ingushetia, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported days after | |Most of those hostages were |it accused Moscow of trying to force refugees to return home | |kidnapped because they violated |by cutting off the heat mid-winter. The Office of the UN High | |the established security rules. |Commissioner for Refugees welcomed "positive developments" at | |We have to act cautiously |the camps which house people who have fled war-torn Chechnya, | |without putting the lives of our|its spokesman Rupert Colville told reporters. "Utility | |men at risk, the presidential |services, including confirmed cuts to water and electricity | |aide went on to say. |supplies in addition to previously reported gas cuts, have | |Yastrzhembsky ruled out any kind|been officially restored to some of the these settlements," he| |of negotiations with Maskhadov |said. "And no new cuts have been reported over the past three | |whom the previous Chechen |days," he added. The Geneva-based UNHCR said it was | |parliament announced |"unacceptable" to cut heating supplies in the middle of the | |illegitimate last year. There is|harsh winter, adding that such a step put pressure on the | |no need for changing Russias |refugees and "brings into question the voluntary nature of the| |policy in Chechnya, especially |return." The claim prompted an angry denial by Moscow a day | |after the referendum on |later. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said such | |Chechnyas new Constitution and |statements were false and "can only provoke astonishment" in | |the presidential elections. He |Moscow. | |said that parliamentary | | |elections would be held in | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Chechnya this year. Only a blind| | |man wouldnt notice positive | Russia - Chechnya | |changes in Chechnya whose | | |permanent population has grown | The pre-islamic customs, manifest in farming festivals | |from 500,000 to one million | | |people in the last three years, |New year's eve | |while the number of small and | | |medium companies has increased |[223] | |from three to 30,000 over the |The traditional way to celebrate New Year's eve goes way back.| |same period of time. We are not |The kindling of a new flame was a matter of utmost importance.| |going to react to the calls of |A new flame was to be burning in the fireplace when New Year's| |those European deputies who have|meal was cooked. A long log was put in the fire. Its length | |never been to Chechnya, have no |determined how long the family would be celebrating. As soon | |idea of what is going on there |as the log allowed the door to close, a New Year's party, with| |and are still demanding a |many good things to eat and drink, with dancing and jesting, | |dialogue with Maskhadov, |could begin. Sooner or later, all logs got shorter, so that | |Yastrzhembsky stressed. ([http:/|every family would sooner or later start celebrating . New | |/www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Year's logs were prepared in advance: a standing tree, most | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |often an oak, was put to dry. It was a great sin to use fruit | | |trees for this purpose. The ancestors of today's Chechens | | Chechen history |believed that the forces of evil stepped up action on New | | |Year's eve. They would, for protection, scatter things made of| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|steel in the cattle-sheds and their living quarters. A | | |plentiful meal offered guarantees for the family's wellbeing | |To Reader |in the year to come. All creatures, including mice, were to | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |have their bellies full on New Year's eve. Wheat breads were | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||baked. The head, ritual bread was shaped as a circle, with | |traditions| music |lines radiating from its center. Breads with all kinds of | | |filling in them were baked in addition to the magic one. The | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |eldest member of the family got a square-shaped one while the | |, a Russian territory which has |guests were treated to round breads. Coins, grains of wheat or| |witnessed the most tragic events|a spool of yarn might be hidden, for fortune-telling purposes,| |over the past decade. The book |inside fancy breads. Other fortune-telling methods were | |is the latest update on the |applied on New Year's eve. A man was, for example, chosen to | |Chechen Republic . And this is |spend the night in the sanctuary. He would lie face down and | |very important, since a lack of |keep his ear pressed to the dirt floor and would, in the | |fresh and accurate information |morning, try to interpret what he had heard. The same kind of | |about events in Chechnya |fortune-telling is known in Russia. A Russian village-dweller | |generates many distorted |would go to a crossroads, mark a circle and press his ear to | |conceptions and rumours - both |the ground. If he heard a loaded sleigh swish heavily by, next| |within and outside Russia . For |year's harvest would be good. If the sleigh seemed to be | |example, that Chechen society is|empty, the harvest would be poor. Chechens knew a very special| |allegedly inherently alien to |method of fortune-telling. They would hold to light a ram's | |Russia , that pro-Russian |shoulder blade. Spots on the shoulder blade predicted whether | |elements in the republic are |next year's harvest would be good, what kind of weather they | |marginalised; and lastly, that |were to expect and even family developments. A similar method | |Russian power structures are |of fortune-telling is known in China. Young girls took | |fighting the Chechen people, |advantage of New Year's eve in an effort to find out something| |rather than armed bandit groups.|about their future husbands. A Chechen girl would bake three | |The reality, however, is that |very salty little breads. She would put two of them under her | |only with the return of the |pillow and eat the third. The person who gave her, in a dream,| |legitimate authorities are |a drink of water, was to become her husband. Young people or | |villages and towns being |teenagers would put on their sheepskin coats the wrong side | |restored, children going to |up, and either wear felt hoods decorated with horns or paint | |school for the first time in |their faces black with chimney soot. Such dress parades, as | |many years, and pensioners |well as the custom of singing carols and begging for penny | |receiving long-forgotten |gifts, are, incidentally, known, till this day, in many | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |countries of Europe and America. But horse races on the third | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |day of a new year are held in Chechnya only. The three winners| |referendum on a new Chechen |should be given a horse, a saddle, a bridle, a whip or a piece| |constitution, and parliamentary |of clothing. Nowadays, New Year's eve has nothing to do with | |and presidential elections. |farming. Neither does it with Islam. People simply get | |These votes will be held, |together on New Year's eve to say good-bye to the outgoing | |despite continued attempts by |year and to welcome in a new and, hopefully, much better year.| |bandit groups and their leaders |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |to scupper the process of |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being | Chechen tarditions | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |being waged by Chechen |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |separatists against federal |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |by no means a "national |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |liberation struggle of the |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Chechen people", but an episode |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |in the overall offensive by |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |international terrorism on the |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |fundamental principles of modern|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |civilisation. The facts show |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |that being a part of the Russian|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Federation in no way threatens |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |identity, the free use of its |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |own language, and preaching |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |during de facto "independence" |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |from Russia that the Chechen |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |people suffered a humanitarian | | |tragedy on an unprecedented | Chechen cuisine | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |form the economic basis of the |traditions| music | |new regime, while chaos and war |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |became the form of its political|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |existence. We want to emphasise |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |once more: Chechnya is part of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Russia , geographically, |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |politically and |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |civilisation-wise. So a |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |hypothetical triumph of radical |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Islamism on its territory would |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |be anti-historical. Such a |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |development would signify the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |establishment in the midst of |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |with all ensuing consequences |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |for the international community.|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |The corporate author - |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |journalists of the Russian |their own. | |Information Agency Novosti - |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |have attempted to be as brief as|eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Answers". It draws heavily on | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Groznys oil Institutes method | | |introduced in production | | | | | |[4048] Toward the end of | | |January, 2004, an all-Russia | | |scientific applied conference, | | |called Academic and | | |Institutional science for | | |Chechen economy, was held in the| | |Russian academy of sciences | | |headquarters in Moscow. Experts | | |from the Grozny oil Institute | | |took part in the conference. | | |Doctor of technical science and | | |head of faculty, professor Deni | | |Batayev, who spoke at the | | |conference said that scientists | | |of the Institute have developed | | |a number of systems being | | |successfully used in production | | |and among them are investment | | |projects and the mechanism of | | |realizing investment programmes.| | |The concept of how to restore | | |both the Chechen economy and | | |social life is under | | |development. There are a number | | |of theoretical developments in | | |the production of building | | |materials and their technology. | | |Some of them are being jointly | | |realized with the Moscow | | |building engineering University | | |. Among them are the production | | |of small-grained composition and| | |concrete for repairs and | | |restoration work. The workouts | | |have received the Russian | | |academy of architectural and | | |construction sciences high | | |award. The developments made | | |provision for ecology demands. | | |Deni Batayev also spoke about | | |the active participation in the | | |researches by students and young| | |teachers of the Grozny oil | | |Institute. More than 6 thousand | | |students currently study in the | | |institute and it has a high | | |reputation. The number of | | |prospective students wanting to | | |study in the institute increases| | |year by year and many of the | | |senior course students dream of | | |working in the Grozny oil | | |research institute after | | |graduation so that together with| | |older staff members can take | | |part in solving specific tasks | | |of restoring the republics oil | | |sector as well as in developing | | |new technology, that can be | | |applied in different areas of | | |the Chechen economy now being | | |resurrected. | | |([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