The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 178 | | | 29.03.04 | |40 kg of plastic explosives | | |discovered in Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Policemen found and withdrew two|[4824] 29 Mart 2004 Centers opening: a significant event | |homemade explosive devices in |With the help of the Russian social organization Walking | |the attic of a house, which is |together Detsky Mir - Childs world, the first and only one so | |being built in Mairtup |far of such a Center, was on March 2 opened in Grozny, the | |settlement (Chechnya's Kurchaloi|capital. It was a most memorable event for the republic and | |district), a source in the |the Center quickly became popular among the Chechen youths. | |Russian Interior Ministry's |The Child world is located in one of the most ruined regions | |temporary press center in the |in the capital-Baronovka. The center is a three-story building| |North Caucasus told RIA Novosti.|with a fitness hall, a library, a cinema hall, a boxing ring | |Each device was made of 20 |and most importantly, a computer hall having a round the clock| |kilograms of plastic explosives,|Internet license. Moreover, there is provision for the | |four electric detonators and a |teaching of school subjects such as English and Russian | |remote-control unit, the source |languages. Instruction is by members of Walking together | |said. Criminal proceedings were |organization, who have been to Chechnya several times and who | |initiated. Policemen are |have some teaching experience. Those wishing to upgrade their | |checking builders. |language skills and to use the opportunities offered by the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Center are many and the timetable is usually filled up for a | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |whole week in advance. The leadership of the Chechen branch of| |more...) |Walking together has pledged to open several of such centers | | |throughout Chechnya to help at least a small segment of the | |Russia to cut troops in Chechnya|republics children to develop culturally and physically as | |by 3,000 |well as to rest and interact with peers through the Internet. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russia is planning to cut its |(more News from Chechnya...) | |troops in Chechnya by 3,000 | | |within the next three months, |29 Mart 2004 Audit Chamber is dissatisfied with inspection | |interior troops commander |results in Chechnya | |Vyacheslav Tikhomirov said. At |In accordance with the recent inspection in Chechnya the | |present, Russia keeps a |Russian Audit Chamber have claims to officials in Grozny as | |70,000-strong group of troops in|well as in Moscow. This was disclosed by Russian Audit Chamber| |the republic, Tikhomirov told a |Chairman Sergei Stepashin during the Orange Juice program on | |news conference at the Itar-Tass|the NTV channel. Mr. Stepashin noted that the situation | |agency. The situation in |concerns the embezzlement of 68 mln. rubles (approximately 2 | |Chechnya is quite favorable to |mln. euros) and serious violations of the legislature in the | |warrant troops cuts. The |course of competitions, held to distribute the rights to | |activity and effectiveness of |conduct state purchases for the needs of economical and social| |the use of interior troops has |restoration in Chechnya. According to him, approximately 40 | |been enhanced 1.5- to 2 times |officials of the republican as well as of the federal levels | |after the Interior Ministry took|are involved in the embezzlement. Facts concerning the | |over the counter-terrorist |no-purpose use of the financial allocations were registered as| |operation in Chechnya. Alone in |well. "The allocated means on the construction of schools were| |2003, the interior troops |spent on the financing of the Terek football club," Mr. | |carried out more than 400,000 |Stepashin said. (The club, which played in the first division,| |special measures that influenced|was only formally representing the capital of Chechnya and | |the situation in the Chechen |mostly consisted of the hired athletes. Last year the Terek | |republic, the commander |(named after the river in Chechnya) had all chances to qualify| |stressed. Thus, the crime rate |for the Prime League.) Mr. Stepashin also noted that none out | |in six regions of Chechnya has |of the 150 facilities under construction were put into | |decreased 14 percent. Even |operation. Only 2,000 out of 47,000 families were provided | |though we understand that not |with housing. However, the current situation owes not to | |all issues have been solved, I |someone's "ill will" but to the lack of the proper control, | |am as a commander sure that we |Mr. Stepashin believes. "Mr. Popov resigned (due to his | |will solve the existing tasks, |disagreements with President Kadyrov), the proper control | |Tikhomirov said. He added that |doesn't exist, military actions continue," Mr. Stepashin said.| |the Chechen Interior Ministry |The Chairman of the Audit Chamber binds great expectations | |was not yet fully ready to take |with the appointment of Sergei Abramov on the post of Prime | |over the anti-terrorist |Minister, who had previously headed the work of the Audit | |operation. "We welcome the |Chamber inspection in Chechnya and before that was the | |initiative by the Chechen |Republic's Finance Minister. "We have sent Mr. Abramov there | |Interior Ministry, but we can't |with the concept of social and economic development. It was | |make it shoulder full |Mr. Kadyrov, who asked us to work out the concept," Mr. | |responsibility," The general |Stepashin said. Answering on the question, if the Russian | |noted that the operations |Audit Chamber had any claims to President Kadyrov, Mr. | |headquarters considers the |Stepashin said that "there is no information on the | |possibility of transferring the |involvement of Mr. Kadyrov in the embezzlement." | |operation under Chechnya's |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |control and that the regional |(more News from Chechnya...) | |department would certainly take | | |over in the future. According to|29 Mart 2004 Kadyrov proposes anti-terrorist center of | |Tikhomirov, interior troops are |Russian Moslems | |being equipped with new armoured|Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov has proposed to set up an | |vehicles and weapons. He praised|anti-terrorist center of Russian Moslems and to adopt a law on| |the Tigr and Vodnik armoured |prosecution of religious extremism. There is no such a law at | |cars for dependable performance |present, and we cannot detain them [the extremists] for | |in wooded and highland areas, |spreading Wahhabite ideas, Kadyrov said at a public forum of | |saying they helped reduce to the|the Caucasus and South Russia. The anti-terrorist center of | |minimum personnel losses during |Russian Moslems could appraise serious incidents and their | |combat missions. Commenting on |belonging to religious extremism, and explain that Islam and | |the coming into service of new |terrorism have nothing in common. Kadyrov also thinks it | |models of weapons, the commander|necessary to regulate the system of muftis. The Caucasus had | |stressed that all brigades and |four muftis in the Soviet period, and now it has 50. Kadyrov, | |separate units are fully |a former mufti, thinks, the religion must have only one | |equipped with the |leader, just like Alexy II. Nowadays every region has a mufti,| |state-of-the-art small arms and |and that is confusing. He has found a way to support muftis in| |ammunition. The recruitment of |Chechnya. They are on the payroll as consultants and advisors,| |servicemen under contract and |he said. | |newest weapons helped avoid | | |losses during movements of | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |convoys, patrols and special | | |operations, Tikhomirov said. The| Russia - Chechnya | |General noted the importance of | | |resolving the problem to provide| Chechen traditions | |housing to servicemen, which he | | |said might be expected by the |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |year 2007 if Russia introduced | | |an accumulative-mortgage system.|[229] | |He said servicemen support the |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |housing measures, which the |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |president proposed at a |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |conference with heads of |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |law-enforcement agencies and |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |other departments concerned. If |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |the law on mortgages is |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |approved, the officers serving |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |under contract, will feel its |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |effect as early as this year, |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |according to Tikhomirov. At |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |present, the number of |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |servicemen needing apartments |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |reaches 12,500. "We provide |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |housing for 1,500 ensigns and |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |officers each year," he noted. |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |more...) |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | | |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | | Chechen history |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | | |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | | |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |To Reader |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |traditions| music |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| | |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |any evil. | |, a Russian territory which has |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |witnessed the most tragic events|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the | Chechen tarditions | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |fresh and accurate information |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |about events in Chechnya |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |within and outside Russia . For |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |example, that Chechen society is|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |allegedly inherently alien to |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Russia , that pro-Russian |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |elements in the republic are |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |marginalised; and lastly, that |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Russian power structures are |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |fighting the Chechen people, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |rather than armed bandit groups.|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |The reality, however, is that |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |only with the return of the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |legitimate authorities are |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |villages and towns being |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |restored, children going to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |school for the first time in |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | Chechen cuisine | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |referendum on a new Chechen |traditions| music | |constitution, and parliamentary |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |and presidential elections. |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |These votes will be held, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |despite continued attempts by |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |bandit groups and their leaders |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |to scupper the process of |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |normalisation in the republic, |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |the latest terrorist act being |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |the bombing of the republican |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |government building. The war |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |being waged by Chechen |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |separatists against federal |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |forces and more often than not |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |against their own co-citizens is|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |by no means a "national |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |liberation struggle of the |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Chechen people", but an episode |their own. | |in the overall offensive by |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |international terrorism on the |eng] in detail ...) | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show | - | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens |## | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |own language, and preaching | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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