The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 173 | | | 09.03.04 | |Militant killed in Chechnya had | | |a British passport |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A group of militants was killed |[2987] 09 Mart 2004 The Chechen authorities intensify work to| |during a special operation in |instill moral and patriotic values into the young | |Chechnya. One of the killed |The Grozny Youth Affairs Department works to provide legal | |militants had a British passport|aid, health care, entertainment, employment and housing to | |on him, RIA Novosti was told in |young people. According to head of the Patriotic Upbringing | |the press group of the Regional |Section Anzor Murzayev, it is also struggling to create | |Operative Staff for Controlling |positive role models for boys and girls who had little in the | |Anti-terrorist Operation in the |way of education or normal life during a decade or so of | |North Caucasus. The special |incessant separatist wars, government changes and ideology | |operation was carried out in the|shake-ups. Head of the Information and Analysis Section | |Kurchaloi district of Chechnya |Hozhakhmet Haladov tells us that the Department often convenes| |where the federal units |forums at which war-scarred 20-year-olds get a taste of | |uncovered the militants' base |peaceful socializing, establish contacts, exchange ideas and | |where ten people were hiding, |also enter intercultural dialogue that is so important for | |the press group's officer said. |ruining the common stereotype of Chechens as rebels and | |According to him, three bandits |outlaws. Mr Muzayev speaks about plans for a regional campaign| |were killed in the shootout and |to advance the social and psychological rehabilitation of and | |two were wounded. The rest of |instill patriotic values into Chechnya 's young. He also | |the bandit group was dispersed. |advocates a federal programme to help the republic's young | |On the site of the fighting the |people. | |bodies of two foreign |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |mercenaries were found. One of |(more News from Chechnya...) | |them, judging by the documents, | | |is an Algerian native, Yassin |09 Mart 2004 Khambiyev who laid down arms may be exonerated | |Binatia who lived in Great |The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic told RIA | |Britain and penetrated into |Novosti that one of the leaders of the illegal armed | |Chechnya through Azerbaijan and |formations, Magomed Khambiyev, who laid down arms, may be | |Georgia, the Staff's spokesman |released from a criminal punishment. "The appendix to Articles| |said. The second killed |208 (participation in an illegal armed formation) and 222 | |mercenary had no documents on |(illegal keeping of arms) provides for releasing from a | |him, however the video film |criminal punishment in case of voluntary withdrawal from the | |captured by the federals |band and voluntary surrender of arms," the source said. He | |featured the address of the |added that "if Khambiyev was not involved in other crimes he | |militant to his relatives where |would be released from a criminal punishment." According to | |he calls himself Osman Larouind |him, a check of Khambiyev's implication in other crimes has | |and explains that he arrived in |already started. The spokesman for the Regional Operational | |Chechnya with a French faked |Staff for controlling the counterterrorist operation in the | |passport via the Transcaucasian |North Caucasus, Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, told RIA Novosti by | |republics, the Staff spokesman |telephone that it is still too early to speak of amnesty of | |said. On the tape, the militant |the so-called "Defence Minister of Ichkeria." "We have | |asks his sister living in Great |information that Khambiyev surrendered to Kadyrov's security | |Britain to find in the Finsbury |service but it is early to say that he has been amnestied," | |Park mosque certain Imad and |Shabalkin said. He went on to say that "the Prosecutor's | |Abdul-Karim, allegedly |Office of Chechnya is now engaged in this procedure, and a | |militants' recruiters, and ask |surrender is likely to be formalized on March 9." Colonel | |them to send legal documents to |Shabalkin explained that Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office takes | |him through Azerbaijan or |decisions on amnesty of militants, who have laid down arms, | |Georgia, said the press group's |after verifying their involvement in grave crimes. According | |officer. Apart from that 50 kg |to him, 21 people from Khambiyev's detachment laid down arms | |of TNT, five kg of plastic |on March 5. "In all probability, this impelled him (Khambiyev)| |explosives, 27 electric |to surrender to the republic's authorities," the Staff | |detonators, weapons and |spokesman added. Magomed Khambiyev gave himself up and laid | |munitions and video cassettes |down arms at Centoroi settlement on March 8. He surrendered to| |were discovered on the site of |representatives of the security service of Chechnya's | |the gang's camp. |president Akhmad Kadyrov. "According to the law-enforcement | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |bodies' information, Khambiyev practically stayed idle for the| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |past eighteen months," Colonel Shabalkin said. "But before | |more...) |that he took an active part in the illegal armed formations." | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Arms arsenal discovered in |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Chechnya | | | |09 Mart 2004 Defense Ministry: Basayev and Maskhadov are on | |A large arms cache has been |the territory of Russia | |found in Chechnya. "An arms |The ringleaders of Chechen militants, Shamil Basayev and Aslan| |cache was discovered in the |Maskhadov, are hiding on the territory of Russia, a | |outskirts of Alkhan Kala |high-placed source inside the Russian Defense Ministry told | |residential area of the Grozny |RIA Novosti . "It would've been wrong to say that Maskhadaov | |district during a search |and Basayev are in Chechnya proper, it would be more correct | |operation conducted there |to say that they are hiding on the territory of Russia," the | |yesterday," said a source in the|source specified. "Their elimination will help to normalize | |Interior Ministry of the Chechen|the operative situation in Chechnya and will weaken to a great| |Republic. "Hidden there were two|extent the bandit formations operating in the republic," he | |homemade launchers of non-guided|said. The source also stressed that Basayev and Maskhadov | |missiles with six warheads, two |"symbolic figures" whom the international extremist | |flame throwers, six anti-tank |organizations back up. Manhunt for Basayev and Maskhadov | |grenade launchers with 24 |continues, the source said. | |grenades, two machineguns, a | | |Kalashnikov submachine gun, an | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |anti-tank mine, 21 shots for an | | |under-barrel grenade launcher, 5| Russia - Chechnya | |hand grenades and 5,250 | | |cartridges of various calibers,"| Chechen culture | |a source in the Chechen Interior| | |Ministry said. According to him,|Chechen theater has a future | |at present it is being | | |established to whom the |[1263] | |discovered arms cache belonged. |Efforts at restoring theater art in Chechnya are going on. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |After a 3-year stay in Anapa, Krasnodar and Nalchik , members | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |of the state dramatic troupe have returned to Chechnya . They | |more...) |number 26 and despite the lack of their own stage, they have | | |performed two new spectacles of the children fairy tale, Brave| | Chechen history |Titiva and the play of the classic Chechen literary giant, | | |Khalid Oshayevs Selset. The spectacles were staged by an old | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|actor of the theater, peoples artist of the Chechen-Ingush | | |ASSR, Ban-Ali Vakhidov. He has with the new crop of artists | |To Reader |brought back the best spectacles of years gone by such as Bozh| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Ali by Abdul-Hamid Hamiyev and the Marriage by Nikolai Gogol. | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||The well known artists, Dagun Omayev, Nelya Khodjiyeva, Khamid| |traditions| music |Azayev, and Raya Isayeva, have remained in the theater. They | | |made the theater famous by their creativity. New names are | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |emerging however and last season, 6 new artists were | |, a Russian territory which has |recruited. Chechen actors are also being trained in the Moscow| |witnessed the most tragic events|Institute of culture and arts. Chechen officials believe that | |over the past decade. The book |graduates from theNakhi studio of the institute will form the | |is the latest update on the |nuclei of the youth theater, planned to be opened in Grozny. | |Chechen Republic . And this is |The Chechen culture ministry is taking steps to reopen the | |very important, since a lack of |Russian dramatic theater bearing the name of Lermontov, | |fresh and accurate information |founded in 1938.Most of its actors who left Chechnya in the | |about events in Chechnya |90s are anxious to return and negotiations are already going | |generates many distorted |on with the director of the Russian dramatic theater I Gurevic| |conceptions and rumours - both |and several leading actors. | |within and outside Russia . For |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |example, that Chechen society is|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian | Chechen tarditions | |elements in the republic are | | |marginalised; and lastly, that |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |Russian power structures are |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |fighting the Chechen people, |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |only with the return of the |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |legitimate authorities are |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |villages and towns being |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |restored, children going to |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |school for the first time in |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |many years, and pensioners |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |receiving long-forgotten |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |referendum on a new Chechen |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |constitution, and parliamentary |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |and presidential elections. |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |These votes will be held, |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |despite continued attempts by |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |bandit groups and their leaders |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | Chechen cuisine | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |government building. The war |traditions| music | |being waged by Chechen |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |separatists against federal |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |forces and more often than not |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |against their own co-citizens is|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |by no means a "national |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |liberation struggle of the |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Chechen people", but an episode |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |in the overall offensive by |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |international terrorism on the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |fundamental principles of modern|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |civilisation. The facts show |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |that being a part of the Russian|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Federation in no way threatens |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |identity, the free use of its |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |own language, and preaching |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |their own. | |during de facto "independence" |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |from Russia that the Chechen |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |became the form of its political| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Chechen power production | | |specialists engaged in shock | | |work | | | | | |[1796] The 2004 plan for | | |restoring power production in | | |Chechnya exceeds that of last | | |year by 50%. The Argun | | |thermoelectric plant, a very | | |important power and heat | | |production facility, is due to | | |be put into operation by the end| | |of the year. The plants first 6 | | |megawatt - turbine is to start | | |active operation shortly. Energy| | |consumption in Argun and the | | |nearby villages will make up 3 | | |megawatts. When put into | | |operation, the first phase of | | |the Argun thermoelectric plant | | |will make it possible to | | |galvanize work at the Argun | | |integrated house-building | | |factory, the ferroconcrete | | |structure factory, the | | |sugar-mill, the meat-preserving | | |factory and other facilities. | | |Actually the Argun | | |thermoelectric plant can already| | |start providing the required | | |amount of heat energy. The | | |planned generation of electric | | |power will help to largely | | |reduce its production cost and | | |the cost of a kilowatt-hour. In | | |early March the construction of | | |the Grozny-330 substation will | | |get under way. The substation | | |will start active operation | | |later this year. The voltage of | | |330 volts will be transformed | | |into 110 volts for the republic | | |to be able to set up a large | | |electricity reserve. The | | |substation, a facility of | | |federal importance, will become | | |the biggest of its kind in the | | |North Caucasus power system. | | |Later this year the construction| | |will begin of a new Nurenergo | | |administrative and production | | |building. A lot is due to be | | |done to further improve the | | |reliability of the republican | | |power supply system and develop | | |power bases. With this in mind, | | |the top managers of Nurenergo | | |are focused on training | | |professionals on the ground. | | |Young specialists take a | | |refresher course, and Nurenergo | | |has sent 80 students to Russian | | |colleges and universities, | | |including 30 of them to Grozny | | |colleges. The problems that | | |Chechen power production | | |specialists face are settled | | |quickly because the top | | |management of Nurenergo, as well| | |as of Russias Unified Energy | | |Systems have been focused on | | |these specialists family life | | |conditions, and also on what | | |opportunities they have for rest| | |and medical treatment. All of | | |Chechnyas power production | | |specialists have homes to live | | |in. Originally the comfortable | | |pre-fabricated houses for the | | |400 families of Chechen power | | |production specialists came | | |complete with anything, from | | |forks and spoons to | | |refrigerators and TV sets. | | |Nurenergo has its own rest and | | |recreation centre on the Caspian| | |Sea shore. But Nurenergo workers| | |are also offered places at the | | |best sanatoria of the North | | |Caucasus and other Russian | | |regions, so they could enjoy | | |rest and improve their health. | | |([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