The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 172 | | | 05.03.04 | |Booby-trapped cars found in | | |Chechnya: intelligence report |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Russian intelligence officials |[1796] 05 Mart 2004 Chechen power production specialists | |said they foiled a bomb attack |engaged in shock work | |in restive Chechnya after |The 2004 plan for restoring power production in Chechnya | |discovering two booby-trapped |exceeds that of last year by 50%. The Argun thermoelectric | |cars containing a total 300 |plant, a very important power and heat production facility, is| |kilograms (660 pounds) of |due to be put into operation by the end of the year. The | |explosives and detonators in the|plants first 6 megawatt - turbine is to start active operation| |Alkhan-Yurt region northwest of |shortly. Energy consumption in Argun and the nearby villages | |the main city Grozny. "Security |will make up 3 megawatts. When put into operation, the first | |services averted an attack |phase of the Argun thermoelectric plant will make it possible | |planned by illegal armed groups |to galvanize work at the Argun integrated house-building | |to destabilize the political |factory, the ferroconcrete structure factory, the sugar-mill, | |situation in Russia before |the meat-preserving factory and other facilities. Actually the| |presidential elections", due |Argun thermoelectric plant can already start providing the | |March 14, said a statement |required amount of heat energy. The planned generation of | |issued by regional |electric power will help to largely reduce its production cost| |anti-terrorist officials for the|and the cost of a kilowatt-hour. In early March the | |northern Caucasus. The statement|construction of the Grozny-330 substation will get under way. | |cited experts as saying that |The substation will start active operation later this year. | |"suicide terrorists are using |The voltage of 330 volts will be transformed into 110 volts | |the same system" found in the |for the republic to be able to set up a large electricity | |cars. The find came after |reserve. The substation, a facility of federal importance, | |attacks regularly attributed by |will become the biggest of its kind in the North Caucasus | |Russia to Chechen separatists. |power system. Later this year the construction will begin of a| |Russian troops poured into |new Nurenergo administrative and production building. A lot is| |Chechnya in October 1999 after a|due to be done to further improve the reliability of the | |series of deadly apartment bomb |republican power supply system and develop power bases. With | |blasts in Moscow that were |this in mind, the top managers of Nurenergo are focused on | |blamed on Chechen rebels. But |training professionals on the ground. Young specialists take a| |the conflict has degenerated |refresher course, and Nurenergo has sent 80 students to | |into guerrilla warfare that has |Russian colleges and universities, including 30 of them to | |killed 5,000 soldiers, according|Grozny colleges. The problems that Chechen power production | |to the official toll, and |specialists face are settled quickly because the top | |thousands of civilians. |management of Nurenergo, as well as of Russias Unified Energy | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Systems have been focused on these specialists family life | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |conditions, and also on what opportunities they have for rest | |more...) |and medical treatment. All of Chechnyas power production | | |specialists have homes to live in. Originally the comfortable | |Federal forces to tighten |pre-fabricated houses for the 400 families of Chechen power | |security in Chechnya ahead of |production specialists came complete with anything, from forks| |presidential vote |and spoons to refrigerators and TV sets. Nurenergo has its own| | |rest and recreation centre on the Caspian Sea shore. But | |Federal Russian military units |Nurenergo workers are also offered places at the best | |gathered in Khankala, outside |sanatoria of the North Caucasus and other Russian regions, so | |the Chechen capital of Grozny, |they could enjoy rest and improve their health. | |to discuss security measures |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |ahead of the March 14 |(more News from Chechnya...) | |presidential vote. Khankala | | |serves as the base for the |04 Mart 2004 Terror attacks mastermind killed in Ingushetia | |Russian Joint Group of Forces in|Gang leader Ahmed Basnukayev, one of the organizers of | |the North Caucasus. Addressing |terrorist attacks in Moscow and in Russia's south - the | |the gathering, Valery Baranov, |Stavropol territory, Ingushetia and Chechnya - was killed in | |head of the Group, said that the|Ingushetia (republic in Russia's Southern federal district | |situation in the republic |bordering on Chechnya), said the press service of the regional| |remained unstable. According to |operational HQ for the counter terrorist operation in the | |him, Chechen militants have not |North Caucasus. Basnukayev (born in 1963) was the so-called | |given up their subversive |"brigadier general" and commander of the "Urus Martan front". | |practices, and may well launch |He was directly subordinate to Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil | |terror attacks in the days |Basayev. The militant made part of the supreme body | |preceding the vote and on |supervising bandit underground "Majlis ul shury of | |election day. About eighty |Mujaheddin", in fact controlled by mercenary Arab Abu al | |militant groups are still |Valid. Maskhadov, Basayev and others are just puppets in his | |operating on Chechen territory, |hands, said the headquarters. Basnukayev was on the wanted | |Mr. Baranov reported. He |list for over 30 murders committed by him, as well as | |acknowledged a lack of |terrorist acts and other crimes that killed over 200 people, | |coordination between forces |said the HQ. According to the press center, FSB officers got | |involved in the |to know the route Basnukayev was following. To intercept him, | |counter-terrorism campaign in |a checkpoint was set up on the road that stopped and blocked | |Chechnya and urged them to |the car with the bandit and his accomplice. Basnukayev put up | |cooperate more closely in trying|armed resistance and was killed. Eight kilograms of plastic | |to prevent acts of terror. |explosives were discovered in a cache inside of the car. The | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |explosives were meant for producing makeshift explosive | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |devices. In the beginning of 1990s, Basnukayev and his | |more...) |brothers were involved with apartment seizures in Grozny. He | | |killed apartment owners and took their property. Basnukayev's | | Chechen history |gang acted in the Urus Martan and Achkhoi Martan districts of | | |Chechnya. The militants perpetrated many terrorist attacks, | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|they kidnapped people to get ransom, said the press center. | | |Basnukayev maintained contact with Chechen terrorists Doku | |To Reader |Umarov, Arbi Barayev, as well as Arab mercenaries Hattab, Abu | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Umar and Abu Al Valid. According to reliable information, and | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||to evidence given by a member of the illegal armed formation, | |traditions| music |Basnukayev was one of the masterminds of all the latest large | | |scale terrorist attacks perpetrated in Moscow, the Stavropol | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |territory, Ingushetia and Chechnya. Basnukayev, together with | |, a Russian territory which has |other leaders of illegal military formations, in particular, | |witnessed the most tragic events|with Rappani Khalilov, is involved with kidnapping General | |over the past decade. The book |Shpigun, a Russian interior ministry representative in the | |is the latest update on the |Chechen republic, as well as with the May 9, 2002 terrorist | |Chechen Republic . And this is |attack in Kaspiisk (Dagestan), said the HQ. Basnukayev | |very important, since a lack of |recently was preparing an attempt on one of the first leaders | |fresh and accurate information |of the Chechen republic, said the press center. | |about events in Chechnya |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |generates many distorted |(more News from Chechnya...) | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |04 Mart 2004 Chechnya holds early Russian presidential | |example, that Chechen society is|elections | |allegedly inherently alien to |Early Russian presidential elections will be held in Chechnya | |Russia , that pro-Russian |on March 4-6. The early elections were organized for | |elements in the republic are |servicemen in units that are deployed in mountainous regions, | |marginalised; and lastly, that |in places that are difficult to access and in areas that are | |Russian power structures are |far from electoral precincts, the chairman of Chechnya's | |fighting the Chechen people, |election commission, Adbul-Kerim Arsakhanov told RIA Novosti. | |rather than armed bandit groups.|He said that 4,500 servicemen, including approximately 3,700 | |The reality, however, is that |border guards would be able to vote early. Mr. Arsakhanov also| |only with the return of the |reported that early elections would be held at seven electoral| |legitimate authorities are |precincts in the Vedeno and Shatoi districts. These precincts | |villages and towns being |have already received the necessary number of ballot papers | |restored, children going to |and are completely ready to hold the elections, he said. A | |school for the first time in |representative of the Regional Operational Staff for | |many years, and pensioners |commanding counter terrorist operations in the North Caucasus,| |receiving long-forgotten |Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, reported that border guards deployed | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |in difficult to access mountainous districts would take part | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |in the elections. According to the Interior Ministry's press | |referendum on a new Chechen |service, several thousand servicemen will vote early because | |constitution, and parliamentary |on election day, they may be fulfilling the tasks of the joint| |and presidential elections. |forces in the North Caucasus or traveling by train. About | |These votes will be held, |2,000 servicemen will cast absentee ballots because they will | |despite continued attempts by |be on leave or on official missions. The Russian presidential | |bandit groups and their leaders |elections are scheduled for March 14. | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | Russia - Chechnya | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen culture | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |Chechen theater has a future | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national |[1263] | |liberation struggle of the |Efforts at restoring theater art in Chechnya are going on. | |Chechen people", but an episode |After a 3-year stay in Anapa, Krasnodar and Nalchik , members | |in the overall offensive by |of the state dramatic troupe have returned to Chechnya . They | |international terrorism on the |number 26 and despite the lack of their own stage, they have | |fundamental principles of modern|performed two new spectacles of the children fairy tale, Brave| |civilisation. The facts show |Titiva and the play of the classic Chechen literary giant, | |that being a part of the Russian|Khalid Oshayevs Selset. The spectacles were staged by an old | |Federation in no way threatens |actor of the theater, peoples artist of the Chechen-Ingush | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|ASSR, Ban-Ali Vakhidov. He has with the new crop of artists | |identity, the free use of its |brought back the best spectacles of years gone by such as Bozh| |own language, and preaching |Ali by Abdul-Hamid Hamiyev and the Marriage by Nikolai Gogol. | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |The well known artists, Dagun Omayev, Nelya Khodjiyeva, Khamid| |during de facto "independence" |Azayev, and Raya Isayeva, have remained in the theater. They | |from Russia that the Chechen |made the theater famous by their creativity. New names are | |people suffered a humanitarian |emerging however and last season, 6 new artists were | |tragedy on an unprecedented |recruited. Chechen actors are also being trained in the Moscow| |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Institute of culture and arts. Chechen officials believe that | |trade and plundering came to |graduates from theNakhi studio of the institute will form the | |form the economic basis of the |nuclei of the youth theater, planned to be opened in Grozny. | |new regime, while chaos and war |The Chechen culture ministry is taking steps to reopen the | |became the form of its political|Russian dramatic theater bearing the name of Lermontov, | |existence. We want to emphasise |founded in 1938.Most of its actors who left Chechnya in the | |once more: Chechnya is part of |90s are anxious to return and negotiations are already going | |Russia , geographically, |on with the director of the Russian dramatic theater I Gurevic| |politically and |and several leading actors. | |civilisation-wise. So a |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |hypothetical triumph of radical |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | Chechen tarditions | |development would signify the | | |establishment in the midst of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |with all ensuing consequences |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |journalists of the Russian |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Information Agency Novosti - |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |have attempted to be as brief as|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |possible on providing answers to|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |the most-often aked questions |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |(above all posed by a foreign |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |audience) about the Chechen |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |issue. Hence the book's title: "|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Chechnya : Questions and |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Answers". It draws heavily on |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |information provided by various |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Russian ministries and |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |departments that in one or |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |another way are involved in |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |normalising life in the |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | Chechen cuisine | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|traditions| music | |=eng] in detail ...) |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | | |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | | Chechen economics |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | | |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Argun sugar factory to get back |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |on stream |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| | |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |[3417] The Argun facility that |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |previously supplied sugar to |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |consumers in and around the |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |republic was all but razed by |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |years of warfare and has lain |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |idle over the past few years. In|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |keeping with a federal |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |reconstruction program for this |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |year the facility will resume |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |the processing of raw sugar. The|their own. | |plants technology director, Ayub|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Vagapov, is certain that by the |eng] in detail ...) | |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| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |and food processing plants. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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