The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 171 | | | 02.03.04 | |Unknown Chechen rebel group | | |claims responsibility for Moscow|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |subway blast | | | |[4547] 02 Mart 2004 Call 03 and get helped | |A previously unknown Chechen |Where do you go to when you need medical help fast in | |rebel group has claimed |Chechnya? You dial 03, just like anywhere else in Russia. The | |responsibility for a bombing |first-aid center in Grozny is one of the five you can now find| |that killed at least 40 people |in the republic. It resumed work exactly four years ago and is| |last month in the Moscow subway,|now tending to some 300,000 people living in the Chechen | |in a statement posted on a |capital and in its immediate environs. Because only a few | |radical Chechen separatist |people in Chechnya still have telephones at home, people | |website. "Our first mop-up |normally call for an ambulance from their workplace or from | |operation was successfully |nearby army checkpoints. Last year the Grozny station handled | |conducted on February 6 in the |57,000 emergency calls. Most of its 70 staff, including 23 | |Moscow subway," the Gazotan |certified doctors, are top-notch professionals making up seven| |Murdash group said in a |and sometimes eight emergency teams including a pediatric, | |statement posted on the |cardiac and casualty ones. There are 17 ambulances in the | |kavkazcenter.com website, using |stations car pool, which is pretty well enough. The lack of | |the same word Russian forces use|radio communication is a big problem though, but the | |to describe sweeping operations |government promised to supply the missing gear already before | |carried out on Chechen villages |this year is out. This would serve the dual purpose of | |suspected of sheltering |providing quicker service and improving the efficiency of | |separatist fighters. The group |ambulance service. The thing is that several calls may | |said its action was revenge for |alternatively come from one and the same district and if the | |an atrocity allegedly committed |dispatcher fails to get in touch with a departed ambulance, he| |by Russian troops in Chechnya |will have to wait until they get back to send them out again | |exactly four years before the |which is very time consuming affair. Secondly, ambulances with| |subway attack. "This was small, |radios ensure better security for the medical personnel. Even | |but good. Remember! This was |without radios, however, the Grozny station is doing a great | |revenge for Alda February 5-6, |job. The teams take a mere 3 minutes to get packed up and | |2000, and it is only the |going. The ambulances need maximum 10 minutes to reach callers| |beginning!" said the statement |within the city limits and maximum 20 minutes to get to | |signed by Lom-Ali Chechensky, |patients living in the city suburbs. | |described as the group's alleged|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |leader. "An eye for an eye! An |(more News from Chechnya...) | |injury for an injury! Freedom or| | |death!" the statement went on. |01 Mart 2004 Akhmad Kadyrov calles on Chechens to participate| |The kavkazcenter.com website |in Russian Presidents elections | |said in remarks it did not know |Chechenya's President Akhmad Kadyrov has called on Chechens to| |who was behind the Gazotan |take an active part in the Russian President's elections on | |Murdash group. It added the |March 14, Kadyrov's press service said. "On Friday the Chechen| |group had sent the statement |President discussed the election issues with representatives | |three times, the first time two |of the executive and power structures," the press service | |days after the blast, and phoned|reported. According to Kadyrov, the future of the Republic | |the website before |much depends on the forthcoming elections, therefore everyone | |kavkazcenter.com agreed to |should come to polling-stations and vote "even against all | |publish the document. Russian |candidates". Kadyrov gave much attention to security measures | |troops poured into Chechnya in |during the election campaign. On his part, chairman of the | |October 1999 after a series of |Chechen Central Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov | |deadly apartment bomb blasts in |reported that 424 polling stations were open in the republic | |Moscow that were blamed on |and they received the required number of ballot papers. | |Chechen rebels. But the conflict|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |has degenerated into guerrilla |(more News from Chechnya...) | |warfare that has killed 5,000 | | |soldiers, according to the |01 February 2004 Abdulatipov sees russias historical mission | |official toll, and thousands of |in preserving unity of its peoples | |civilians. |Ramazan Abdulatipov, chairman of the Assembly of the Peoples | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |of Russia, believes that the Russian Federation should set up | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |an executive body responsible for the implementation of the | |more...) |nationalities policy concept, he said delivering the main | | |report at the third congress of the Assembly. "There must also| |Duma commends Russian special |be the post of commissioner for the rights of the various | |services for liquidation of |peoples," said Abdulatipov. In his view, the Assembly, set up | |high-profile Chechen warlord |in 1998, has one major goal - "to gather together Russia's | | |peoples and lands." He indicated that the concept of | |Russia's parliament has |nationalities state policy boils down to bringing together the| |applauded the liquidation of the|peoples residing in a multi-ethic state. "The principal | |infamous Chechen warlord Ruslan |historical mission of Russia is to preserve the unity of our | |Gelayev as a "great achievement"|peoples. This is the most patriotic mission," Abdulatipov | |on the part of federal special |emphasized. He added that equality of each people regardless | |services. Franz Klintsevich, |of its numbers is the democratic template for nationalities | |deputy chair of the United |policy. "There will be no prosperity without this," believes | |Russia faction in parliament's |the assembly's chairman. Speaking of Chechnya, Abdulatipov | |lower house, the State Duma, |expressed the view that the tragedy of that republic "had no | |praised the performance of |bearing on the issue of nationalities from the outset." | |Russian law-enforcement agencies| | |involved in the operation, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |saying that their next target | | |should be fellow warlord Shamil | Russia - Chechnya | |Basayev. According to | | |Klintsevich, Basayev is behind | Chechen culture | |all recent terrorist acts in | | |Russia, and he controls the |Chechen theater has a future | |situation in terrorist training | | |camps and the flow of money to |[1263] | |finance terror activities. The |Efforts at restoring theater art in Chechnya are going on. | |physical elimination of Basayev |After a 3-year stay in Anapa, Krasnodar and Nalchik , members | |would help stabilize Chechnya, |of the state dramatic troupe have returned to Chechnya . They | |the MP argues. Gelayev's killing|number 26 and despite the lack of their own stage, they have | |is a symbolic event, believes |performed two new spectacles of the children fairy tale, Brave| |Nikolai Kovalev, former head of |Titiva and the play of the classic Chechen literary giant, | |the Federal Security Service who|Khalid Oshayevs Selset. The spectacles were staged by an old | |now chairs the Duma Committee |actor of the theater, peoples artist of the Chechen-Ingush | |for War Veterans. "A whole |ASSR, Ban-Ali Vakhidov. He has with the new crop of artists | |galaxy of intractable warlords |brought back the best spectacles of years gone by such as Bozh| |is becoming history. Of course, |Ali by Abdul-Hamid Hamiyev and the Marriage by Nikolai Gogol. | |that's a serious achievement [on|The well known artists, Dagun Omayev, Nelya Khodjiyeva, Khamid| |the part] of the special |Azayev, and Raya Isayeva, have remained in the theater. They | |services," he said. Kovalev also|made the theater famous by their creativity. New names are | |stressed the importance of |emerging however and last season, 6 new artists were | |vigilance against a possible |recruited. Chechen actors are also being trained in the Moscow| |backlash. Like Klintsevich, he |Institute of culture and arts. Chechen officials believe that | |urged federal law-enforcers to |graduates from theNakhi studio of the institute will form the | |go after Basayev, whom he |nuclei of the youth theater, planned to be opened in Grozny. | |described as a "symbol of |The Chechen culture ministry is taking steps to reopen the | |international terrorism." "The |Russian dramatic theater bearing the name of Lermontov, | |liquidation of Gelayev is a |founded in 1938.Most of its actors who left Chechnya in the | |natural process," said Mikhail |90s are anxious to return and negotiations are already going | |Grishankov, second in charge of |on with the director of the Russian dramatic theater I Gurevic| |the Duma Security Committee. "It|and several leading actors. | |was no easy task, though," he |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |added. Russia's special services|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |should use all their | | |capabilities to destroy other | Chechen tarditions | |major Chechen warlords, such as | | |Basayev, emphasized Grishankov. |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |He also highlighted the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |necessity of disrupting the flow|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |of money to finance Chechen | | |rebels' terrorist activity. |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |more...) |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | | |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | | Chechen history |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | | |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| | |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |To Reader |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |traditions| music |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| | |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |, a Russian territory which has |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book | Chechen cuisine | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |very important, since a lack of |traditions| music | |fresh and accurate information |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |about events in Chechnya |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |generates many distorted |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |conceptions and rumours - both |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |within and outside Russia . For |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |example, that Chechen society is|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |allegedly inherently alien to |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Russia , that pro-Russian |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |elements in the republic are |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |marginalised; and lastly, that |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Russian power structures are |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |fighting the Chechen people, |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |rather than armed bandit groups.|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |The reality, however, is that |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |only with the return of the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |legitimate authorities are |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |villages and towns being |their own. | |restored, children going to |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |school for the first time in |eng] in detail ...) | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | - | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |## | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |and presidential elections. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by | | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen | | |people suffered a humanitarian | | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |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,| | |with all ensuing consequences | | |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 | | | | | |Argun sugar factory to get back | | |on stream | | | | | |[3417] The Argun facility that | | |previously supplied sugar to | | |consumers in and around the | | |republic was all but razed by | | |years of warfare and has lain | | |idle over the past few years. In| | |keeping with a federal | | |reconstruction program for this | | |year the facility will resume | | |the processing of raw sugar. The| | |plants technology director, Ayub| | |Vagapov, is certain that by the | | |end of this year the | | |reconstruction will be complete | | |and the factory will be turning | | |out an average 260 tons of raw | | |sugar each day. The sugar will | | |go to the food stores, canneries| | |and food processing plants. | | |Fully running again, the factory| | |will create 550 new jobs with | | |the salary depending on the | | |quantity of produce made. Ayub | | |Vagapov is sure that there will | | |be no idling now that the | | |Chechen government has promised | | |unfettered supplies of raw | | |sugar. Sugar processing is a | | |power consuming business but a | | |nearby thermal station will | | |provide enough electricity and | | |vapor for the factory, which, | | |for its part, is a real boon to | | |the station, which will now be | | |able to considerably boost its | | |productivity. Right now the | | |station is supplying electricity| | |for the ongoing repair work. | | |Several production workshops are| | |standing again and the lime line| | |will resume operation in about a| | |months time and its warehouses | | |are ready to take in a thousand | | |tons of the much-needed product.| | |Ayub Vagapov hopes that next | | |year they will get down to the | | |business of restoring the | | |factorys sugar beet-processing | | |facility and he is certain the | | |Argun factory has a good future | | |lying ahead. | | |([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