The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 174 | | | 12.03.04 | |Two militants eliminated in | | |Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |According to the information |[1339] 12 Mart 2004 Chechnyas leading oncologists ready to | |released by the joint press |return home | |centre of the District |The republican oncological clinic has been operational in | |Operational Headquarters (DOH) |Chechnya since April 2000. The clinic has been using the | |conducting an anti-terrorist |premises of a former childrens sanatorium in Groznys Michurino| |operation in the North Caucasus,|settlement. According to the head doctor Ismail Adizov, the | |two militants were killed in the|original building was destroyed, so the clinic first had to | |Achkhoi-Martanovskiy district of|make do with a private garage. The new building is still in | |Chechnya during the federal |need of a lot of repair work, and its only the ground floor | |forces' special operation. "A |that has so far been operational. The head doctor voices hope | |militants' base was revealed by |that the clinic will soon operate at capacity, since those in | |the subunit of the federal |charge of repair work have said they will have been through by| |forces near the settlement of |later this year. Last year 1,614 Chechens were registered as | |Chozhi-Chu. There were two |cancer patients, including 56 children. 40% of the total | |members of the militants group |number of cancer cases are within the 4th clinical group, | |there. Bandits put up armed |which means they cant be cured. According to Ismail Adizov, | |resistance and were eliminated. |the fact that cancerous diseases have been neglected in the | |Federal forces sustain no |republic is due to the lack of diagnostic and X-ray therapy | |losses," the DOH representative |equipment. One such device costs $ 150,000, but the clinic | |reported. According to him, two |needs at least two of them. The clinic also badly needs X-ray | |AK-74 submachine-guns, ten |therapy medicaments, and, above all, anaesthetics. The problem| |grenade launcher's charges, four|is further complicated by the fact that Chechen medical | |mines, five mortar mines, 400 |centres have so far failed to obtain licences for bringing | |grammes of plastid and a great |into the republic drugs for the 3d and 4th group patients. | |number of different cartridges |Ismail Adizov says they have no oncological hospital, so the | |were found during the base |patients have to go to cancer hospitals outside the republic. | |territory inspection. Special |But even when their diagnosis is confirmed, many refuse | |measures to identify the killed |treatment and thus make their condition still worse. Also, the| |militants has been taken, noted |clinic is not funded the way it should, although it forms part| |the DOH press centre |of Russias federal target programme. Officials in Moscow time | |representative. |and again ask the clinic to keep waiting, but, according to | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the head doctor, his patients really cannot wait. We are | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |prepared to work hard, provided we are given what we need for | |more...) |that work. We have experienced oncologists who have been | | |treating patients for years. Currently many of these doctors | |Former "defence minister of |make their home in Russia, in general, or in Ingushetia, in | |Ichkeria" advises Maskhadov to |particular, but they all want to come back home to resume work| |surrender |in Grozny. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Giving himself up recently, what|(more News from Chechnya...) | |is called "the defence minister | | |of Ichkeria" Magomed Khambiev |11 Mart 2004 Chechen refugees going home face 'return to | |advises to his former chief |hell' | |Aslan Maskhadov, head of the |Chechen refugees moving back from camps in Ingushetia to their| |Chechen separatists, to show no |war-torn homeland face a "return to hell", leading | |more resistance and give himself|non-governmental organizations said, rejecting Moscow's claims| |up to the authorities, Khambiev |the Caucasus republic is stabilising. Three organisations, | |has said to journalists. Asked |Action Against Hunger, Handicap International and Medecins du | |about the motives, he rejected |Monde in a joint report cast doubt on Russian insistence that | |the press reports that the |there is no longer a conflict in breakaway Chechnya, shattered| |reason was the arrest of his |by two wars in a decade. "The reality is that daily life for | |relatives. "I don't want to wage|the Chechen population in Ingushetia and Chechnya shows that | |war against my people and have |there has been no such return to normal," they said, days | |always been against Basaev / |ahead of an presidential election expected to be easily won by| |another head of the Chechen |incumbent Vladimir Putin. The report, entitled "Chechnya, a | |militants/ and Arab |Return to Hell", said that the refugees do not want to return | |mercenaries", Khambiev |to Chechnya owing to the continued insecurity there and | |continued. Khambiev laid down |slammed coercive methods used by the authorities to force them| |arms on March 8 in the Tsentoroi|to go back. Some 70,000 Chechen refugees are living in | |village. He surrendered to the |neighbouring Ingushetia following the second Chechen war, | |security service of Chechen |which broke out when Putin sent troops into Chechnya to fight | |President Akhmad Kadyrov. |separatist rebels in October 1999. Between 4,000 and 7,000 of | |Earlier, on March 5 twenty one |them live in tent camps according to differing Russian and UN | |men of his detachment had laid |estimates. The refugees are threatened if they refuse to leave| |down arms. Khambiev refused to |Ingushetia, while refugee camps are being dismantled without | |cite the number of militants |alternative accommodation being offered, the organisations | |operating in Chechnya, noting |said. This contravenes the Russian authorities' commitment to | |that he would answer this |make returning a voluntary process. The organisations alleged | |question "in another place". The|that the Russian authorities are using "threats, promises, and| |Chechen prosecutor's office does|military and police terror" to force a population "harassed on| |not rule out the possibility of |a daily basis" to return home. The report accused the | |Khambiev's amnesty if he is |authorities of intentionally worsening conditions in the camps| |found to be uninvolved in the |in Ingushetia - such as by cutting gas and water and upping | |commitment of grave crimes. |police inspections - to force the refugees to return home. | |Meanwhile, not long ago the |Once back at home, the returning refugees face what the report| |chief of a "special section" of |described as "the main problem in Chechnya today" - the threat| |militants and one of the |of abduction by Chechen security forces and Russian troops. It| |Maskhadov's closest associates, |said that despite the talk of a return to normalcy in | |Boris Aidamirov, surrendered to |Chechnya, the violence and other consequences the war are | |the authorities in Chechnya. RIA|still widespread.People living in Chechnya's mountainous south| |Novosti learnt this from Ilya |face a daily battle to survive, with a third of the land | |Shabalkin of the regional |destroyed and up to 80 percent of the livestock lost, it said.| |operative headquarters for the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |conduct of the antiterrorist |(more News from Chechnya...) | |operation in the North Caucasian| | |region. ([http:// |11 Mart 2004 Former Chechen separatist defense minister not | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |remanded in custody | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |Magomed Khambiyev, a former senior figure in the camp of the | | |Chechen militants having the defense ministers rank, who | | Chechen history |surrendered to the Chechen authorities on March 7, has not | | |been remanded in custody. The Chechen Prosecutors Office is | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|now probing into Khambiyevs past to find out whether he was | | |responsible for any grave offences, Chechnyas Deputy | |To Reader |Prosecutor, Alexander Nikitin told Tass. Khambiyev is not | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |under arrest, but he remains under law enforcers control, he | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||said. The prosecutors office launched the probe as soon as | |traditions| music |Khambiyev gave himself up to the authorities and will be | | |completed ten days after that, roughly by March 18. So far no | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |evidence has been unearthed revealing Khambiyevs complicity in| |, a Russian territory which has |any grave crimes. If he proves not responsible for grave | |witnessed the most tragic events|crimes, Khambiyev may be amnestied, the Chechen deputy | |over the past decade. The book |prosecutor said. Khambiyev, currently in Gudermes, has said he| |is the latest update on the |would like the separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov to follow in| |Chechen Republic . And this is |his footsteps. He disclaims responsibility for the armed | |very important, since a lack of |intrusion in Dagestan in September 1999 and connections with | |fresh and accurate information |Shamil Basayev. He argues he was all along opposed to the main| |about events in Chechnya |advocate of the Wahhabite ideology in Chechnya Movladi Udugov | |generates many distorted |and former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev. | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to | Russia - Chechnya | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are | Chechen culture | |marginalised; and lastly, that | | |Russian power structures are |Chechen theater has a future | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.|[1263] | |The reality, however, is that |Efforts at restoring theater art in Chechnya are going on. | |only with the return of the |After a 3-year stay in Anapa, Krasnodar and Nalchik , members | |legitimate authorities are |of the state dramatic troupe have returned to Chechnya . They | |villages and towns being |number 26 and despite the lack of their own stage, they have | |restored, children going to |performed two new spectacles of the children fairy tale, Brave| |school for the first time in |Titiva and the play of the classic Chechen literary giant, | |many years, and pensioners |Khalid Oshayevs Selset. The spectacles were staged by an old | |receiving long-forgotten |actor of the theater, peoples artist of the Chechen-Ingush | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |ASSR, Ban-Ali Vakhidov. He has with the new crop of artists | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |brought back the best spectacles of years gone by such as Bozh| |referendum on a new Chechen |Ali by Abdul-Hamid Hamiyev and the Marriage by Nikolai Gogol. | |constitution, and parliamentary |The well known artists, Dagun Omayev, Nelya Khodjiyeva, Khamid| |and presidential elections. |Azayev, and Raya Isayeva, have remained in the theater. They | |These votes will be held, |made the theater famous by their creativity. New names are | |despite continued attempts by |emerging however and last season, 6 new artists were | |bandit groups and their leaders |recruited. Chechen actors are also being trained in the Moscow| |to scupper the process of |Institute of culture and arts. Chechen officials believe that | |normalisation in the republic, |graduates from theNakhi studio of the institute will form the | |the latest terrorist act being |nuclei of the youth theater, planned to be opened in Grozny. | |the bombing of the republican |The Chechen culture ministry is taking steps to reopen the | |government building. The war |Russian dramatic theater bearing the name of Lermontov, | |being waged by Chechen |founded in 1938.Most of its actors who left Chechnya in the | |separatists against federal |90s are anxious to return and negotiations are already going | |forces and more often than not |on with the director of the Russian dramatic theater I Gurevic| |against their own co-citizens is|and several leading actors. | |by no means a "national |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |liberation struggle of the |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | Chechen tarditions | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |civilisation. The facts show |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |that being a part of the Russian|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |identity, the free use of its |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |own language, and preaching |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |during de facto "independence" |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |from Russia that the Chechen |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |people suffered a humanitarian |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |tragedy on an unprecedented |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |trade and plundering came to |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |form the economic basis of the |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |new regime, while chaos and war |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |became the form of its political|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |existence. We want to emphasise |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |once more: Chechnya is part of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Russia , geographically, |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a | Chechen cuisine | |hypothetical triumph of radical | | |Islamism on its territory would |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |be anti-historical. Such a |traditions| music | |development would signify the |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |establishment in the midst of |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |with all ensuing consequences |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |for the international community.|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |The corporate author - |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |journalists of the Russian |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Information Agency Novosti - |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |have attempted to be as brief as|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |possible on providing answers to|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |the most-often aked questions |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |(above all posed by a foreign |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |audience) about the Chechen |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Chechnya : Questions and |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Answers". It draws heavily on |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |information provided by various |their own. | |Russian ministries and |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |departments that in one or |eng] in detail ...) | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the | - | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency |## | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |=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