The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 175 | | | 15.03.04 | |Chechnya welcomes Putins | | |landslide victory |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Chechen leader Akhmat Kadyrov |[3632] 15 Mart 2004 Ensemble Veinakh: Treasure and pride of | |said that his republic welcomed |Chechnya | |a landslide election win of |The artistic Director of Veinakh Ensemble, Dikalu Muzakayev, | |President Vladimir Putin. Putins|continues to receive congratulatory messages on his being | |re-election for the second term |conferred with the honour of Peoples artist of Russia. He | |means for me a guarantee of |believes that the entire members of his collective deserve the| |Russias unity, the formation of |honour and hopes that in the future other dancers will equally| |a powerful economy and a steady |get that title saying however, that for that to happen, it | |growth of Russias influence in |will be necessary to groom and train young artists. A | |the world, Kadyrov told Tass by |choreography school-studio has recently been created under the| |telephone. According to the |Veinakh ensemble in which 160 young boys and girls are being | |Chechen leader, the election of |trained. Members of the ensemble are currently working on new | |Putin is a significant, an |programmes, rehearsing various Chechen dances expressing male | |historic event, and not only for|nobility, strength and female tenderness. Shortly, Veinakh | |the Russian people. Right now, |Ensemble will begin rehearsing some of the best dances of the | |only Putin can steer Russia |peoples of North Caucasus and rehearsals will be in the new | |towards becoming a great power, |building given to the Ensemble on the personal instruction of | |and he will do it, while |Chechen president, Akhmad Kadyrov. For the first time in its | |Chechnya will become part of |existence Veinakh Ensemble, has a stage of its own and in the | |that powerful state, Kadyrov |opinion of Mr. Muzakayev, that will have a positive impact on | |stressed. He said that all the |the work of his Ensemble, providing an opportunity to prepare | |necessary bodies of executive |well for the planned series of summer and autumn performing | |power had been created in |tours. The Ensemble will put on show their art in Spain, Italy| |Chechnya during Putins first |and France and in July take part in events marking the 80th | |term in office. The Chechen |anniversary of the birth of the great Chechen dancer, Makhmud | |people have got their own |Esambayev, who in his time was the acclaimed soloist of | |Constitution, and a |Veinakh. A memorial evening devoted to him has been slated for| |parliamentary election is due in|the Kremlin Palace of Congress. In September, Veinakh Ensemble| |the republic in autumn. People |will celebrate its 65th founding anniversary and guests from | |have started getting pensions |all over North Caucasus and Moscow have been invited. | |and allowances on a regular |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |basis, like in all Russian |(more News from Chechnya...) | |regions, Kadyrov emphasized. We | | |have also got an opportunity to |[4732] 14 Mart 2004 Small businesses get a boost | |feel that we are part of a big |The Chechen government is giving much help to the local | |country, and that people will |businesses, which it sees as crucial for achieving | |revive after a decade of chaos |much-awaited political and economic stabilization in the | |and lawlessness under Dudayev |republic. Last year the number of small businesses soared to | |and Maskhadov, the Chechen |more than 3,000 compared to just a handful only three years | |president added. He said a high |earlier and there are more than 10,000 business people without| |voter turnout at the |a legal person status now at work in Chechnya channeling an | |presidential election, over 90 |estimated 500 million rubles in tax money to the state | |percent, testified to the fact |coffers. The small businesses are helping the state and the | |that people trust Putins policy.|state is fully returning the courtesy opening, among other | |We are confident that the |things, a republican business center to train business | |country has made today the right|managers and entrepreneurs. The center that opened doors in | |choice, he added. The Chechen |Grozny earlier this year is headquartered in an all-new office| |people and personally I have |building. Similar centers will soon be opened in Gudermes and | |supported, do support and will |also in the Skelkovskoy and Shali districts, all paid for by | |keep supporting Putins policy, |the republican government. This year the Chechen budget will, | |Kadyrov emphasized. |for the first time, earmark easy loans for the local small | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |businesses. To apply for such a loan, one is supposed to | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |submit a detailed business plan to a relevant government | |more...) |committee. More than 700 such business plans have already been| | |put forward. The loans are not very big but they are still | |Chechnya: turnout sensationally |enough to get your business started. Small-business loans are | |close to 90% |also coming from the federal budget and this year the | | |Antimonopoly Ministry will hand out 3 billion rubles in such | |538,864 have come to the federal|easy loans to get private regional businesses going. Minister | |presidential polls in |Ilya Yuzhanov (?) Chechen businessmen are first in line to get| |Chechnya-89.65 percent of its |them. Chechnya also wants the local businesses to be insured | |total registered franchised |by the federal governments small business support fund. | |population, which is close to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |600,000. The election came off |(more News from Chechnya...) | |smoothly, a republican election | | |commission spokesman said to |[923] 13 Mart 2004 Telephone lines being restored in Urus | |Novosti. No emergencies and |Martan | |outrages have been reported, |Telephone lines have been restored to Chechnyas Urus Martan | |added a republican Interior |district since last year and they have already installed a | |Ministry spokesman. ([http:// |brand-new 1,258-line digital exchange to handle phones at many| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |local enterprises and organizations, including at Gekhi, | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |Shalzhi, Goity, Komsomolskoye and Martan Chu villages. | | |Communication is disrupted by occasional power cutoffs in | | Chechen history |which case local diesel mini-power stations immediately switch| | |on to keep the phone lines running. Meanwhile, repair work | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|continues unabated at the local power stations at Urus Martan | | |whose director, Kharon Taramov, says telephone service to | |To Reader |private subscribers will be restored already in April and May | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |of this year. It will take time for everyone to get a working | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||phone line at home, but we are already working on this, he | |traditions| music |says. The district is busily preparing for the March 14 | | |presidential elections and all local polling stations enjoy | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |quality telephone service just like they did during the past | |, a Russian territory which has |three elections. | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is | Russia - Chechnya | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information | Chechen traditions | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |[229] | |example, that Chechen society is|A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |allegedly inherently alien to |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |Russia , that pro-Russian |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |elements in the republic are |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |marginalised; and lastly, that |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |Russian power structures are |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |fighting the Chechen people, |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |rather than armed bandit groups.|coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |The reality, however, is that |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |only with the return of the |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |legitimate authorities are |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |villages and towns being |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |restored, children going to |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |school for the first time in |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |many years, and pensioners |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |receiving long-forgotten |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |referendum on a new Chechen |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |constitution, and parliamentary |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |and presidential elections. |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |These votes will be held, |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |despite continued attempts by |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |bandit groups and their leaders |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |to scupper the process of |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |normalisation in the republic, |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |the latest terrorist act being |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |the bombing of the republican |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |government building. The war |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |being waged by Chechen |any evil. | |separatists against federal |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |forces and more often than not |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national | Chechen tarditions | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |in the overall offensive by |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |international terrorism on the |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |that being a part of the Russian|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Federation in no way threatens |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |identity, the free use of its |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |own language, and preaching |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |during de facto "independence" |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |from Russia that the Chechen |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |people suffered a humanitarian |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |tragedy on an unprecedented |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |trade and plundering came to |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |form the economic basis of the |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |new regime, while chaos and war |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |became the form of its political|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of | Chechen cuisine | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |civilisation-wise. So a |traditions| music | |hypothetical triumph of radical |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Islamism on its territory would |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |be anti-historical. Such a |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |development would signify the |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |establishment in the midst of |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |with all ensuing consequences |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |for the international community.|written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |The corporate author - |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |journalists of the Russian |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Information Agency Novosti - |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |have attempted to be as brief as|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |possible on providing answers to|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |the most-often aked questions |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |(above all posed by a foreign |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |audience) about the Chechen |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|their own. | |Chechnya : Questions and |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Answers". It draws heavily on |eng] in detail ...) | |information provided by various | | |Russian ministries and | - | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in |## | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Russian Information Agency | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |Small businesses get a boost | | | | | |[4732] The Chechen government is| | |giving much help to the local | | |businesses, which it sees as | | |crucial for achieving | | |much-awaited political and | | |economic stabilization in the | | |republic. Last year the number | | |of small businesses soared to | | |more than 3,000 compared to just| | |a handful only three years | | |earlier and there are more than | | |10,000 business people without a| | |legal person status now at work | | |in Chechnya channeling an | | |estimated 500 million rubles in | | |tax money to the state coffers. | | |The small businesses are helping| | |the state and the state is fully| | |returning the courtesy opening, | | |among other things, a republican| | |business center to train | | |business managers and | | |entrepreneurs. The center that | | |opened doors in Grozny earlier | | |this year is headquartered in an| | |all-new office building. Similar| | |centers will soon be opened in | | |Gudermes and also in the | | |Skelkovskoy and Shali districts,| | |all paid for by the republican | | |government. This year the | | |Chechen budget will, for the | | |first time, earmark easy loans | | |for the local small businesses. | | |To apply for such a loan, one is| | |supposed to submit a detailed | | |business plan to a relevant | | |government committee. More than | | |700 such business plans have | | |already been put forward. The | | |loans are not very big but they | | |are still enough to get your | | |business started. Small-business| | |loans are also coming from the | | |federal budget and this year the| | |Antimonopoly Ministry will hand | | |out 3 billion rubles in such | | |easy loans to get private | | |regional businesses going. | | |Minister Ilya Yuzhanov (?) | | |Chechen businessmen are first in| | |line to get them. Chechnya also | | |wants the local businesses to be| | |insured by the federal | | |governments small business | | |support fund. | | |([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