The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 176 | | | 19.03.04 | |Antiterrorist Media Forum in | | |Moscow |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |In late April, Moscow will host |[489] 19 Mart 2004 Ex-Chechen MPs meet with students | |the International Antiterrorism |Former Chechen lawmakers elected in 1997 have recently been | |Media Forum. The forum will |meeting with students studying at the Millionshchikov Oil | |focus on the formation of a |Institute. The ex-MPs wanted to know more about the young | |global information network to |peoples attitude towards the socioeconomic situation that has | |combat terrorism and drugs, |been developing in the republic in the wake of the 1991 Soviet| |Alexander Orlov, the information|breakup and also about the Chechen governments handling of | |advisor of the Secretary General|Chechnyas many problems. The students said that Maskhadovs | |of the Collective Security |rule had shut them out of normal life depriving them of | |Treaty Organization (ODKB), told|education and work. They also welcomed the recent spate of | |journalists. "We should discuss |rebel surrenders. The participants called for national accord | |the world we live in, its |and an end to the republics division into feuding clans, which| |development problems and the |they said, was impeding much-needed economic and social | |possibilities for the media to |reconstruction of the Chechen Republic. | |make it a better place," Mr. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Orlov said. Journalists from |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Russia, CIS and ODKB | | |members-states, other countries,|18 Mart 2004 Cache with weapons and ammunition found in | |representatives of the |Chechnya | |legislative and executive |A cache with weapons and ammunition was found in Grozny, the | |branches of governments, ODKB |capital of Chechnya. The press service of the main department | |law enforcement bodies and other|of the Russian interior ministry for the southern federal | |international security |district told RIA Novosti that the cache was found by officers| |organizations will participate |in an almost destroyed building. Policemen withdrew three | |in the media forum. (The |Kalashnikov sub-machine guns, 14 magazines, four rounds to an | |Collective Security Treaty |under-barrel grenade launcher, five hand grenades and 500 | |Organization includes Russia, |cartridges of various calibre. According to operative data, | |Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,|the cache belonged to a militant who was killed by the federal| |Tajikistan and Armenia.) |forces in January 2004, the press service specified. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |(more News from Chechnya...) | |more...) | | | |18 Mart 2004 Presidential envoy Vladimir Yakovlev hopes | |Chechen imam persuades two |Chechnya situation will not be aggravated | |gunmen to surrender |Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian President's envoy to the | | |Southern Federal District, like his predecessor on this post | |Members of armed gangs continue |Viktor Kazantsev, opines that the talks in the Chechen | |to surrender in Chechnya. |Republic must be conducted only with those "who have not | |Another two gunmen laid down |stained their hands with blood." The principle "blood for | |their firearms with mediation |blood" is leading only to the aggravation of the situation. | |from a representative of the |"This must not be allowed", Yakovlev said replying to the | |Moslem clergy, Tass learnt at |question of a RIA Novosti correspondent. He described the | |the regional headquarters on the|situation in Chechnya as "fragile", but said that it should be| |counter-terrorist operation in |maintained by all possible means. Yakovlev said that his | |the North Caucasus. Earlier, an |stance is to "alleviate the situation, to create the maximally| |imam of a mosque in a village, |favorable conditions for any processes to develop in a calm | |situated in the Vedeno district,|atmosphere, as confrontation gives nothing." | |came to law enforcement bodies | | |with a report that two members | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |of an armed gang intend to | | |surrender, the headquarters | Russia - Chechnya | |noted. When they received | | |guarantees of their personal | Chechen traditions | |security, the two gunmen came to| | |a police precinct and |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |surrendered. They brought two | | |Kalashnikovs, a hand grenade |[229] | |launcher and two radio stations.|A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |The headquarters stated that it |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |turned out during their |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |interrogation that the refusal |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |to continue illegal activities |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |by the so-called Defence |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |Minister of the so-called |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |Ichkeria republic Magomed |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |Khambiev (who surrendered |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |earlier) prompted their decision|No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |to surrender. Former gunmen now |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |testify concerning places of |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |deployment of their gang and |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |accomplices of bandits from |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |among local citizens. Their |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |names were not divulged in the |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |interests of investigation, the |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |headquarters stressed. At least |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |30 gunmen surrendered over the |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |past month. ([http:// |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| | |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | | Chechen history |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | | |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | | |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |To Reader |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||any evil. | |traditions| music |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | | |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya | | |, a Russian territory which has | Chechen tarditions | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |is the latest update on the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |about events in Chechnya |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |generates many distorted |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |conceptions and rumours - both |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |within and outside Russia . For |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |example, that Chechen society is|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |allegedly inherently alien to |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Russia , that pro-Russian |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |elements in the republic are |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |marginalised; and lastly, that |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Russian power structures are |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |fighting the Chechen people, |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |The reality, however, is that |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |only with the return of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |legitimate authorities are |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to | Chechen cuisine | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |receiving long-forgotten |traditions| music | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |referendum on a new Chechen |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |constitution, and parliamentary |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |and presidential elections. |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |These votes will be held, |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |despite continued attempts by |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |bandit groups and their leaders |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |to scupper the process of |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |normalisation in the republic, |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |the latest terrorist act being |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |the bombing of the republican |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |government building. The war |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |being waged by Chechen |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |separatists against federal |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |forces and more often than not |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |against their own co-citizens is|their own. | |by no means a "national |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |liberation struggle of the |eng] in detail ...) | |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| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Federation in no way threatens | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |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