The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 179 | | | 05.04.04 | |One of last two Chechen refugee | | |camps closes in neighboring |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |republic | | | |[4882] 05 April 2004 Terek qualifies for the quarterfinals | |One of the two remaining tent |The soccer team Terek from Grozny has qualified for the | |camps for Chechen refugees in |quarterfinals of the Russian Cup for first time. On the 24th | |the Ingushetia republic on the |of this month it played 1:1 draw in its home match against | |border of war-torn Chechnya |Kuban of Krasnodar in the second-leg. It won 3:0 its first | |closed, Russia's federal |match week earlier. The teams coach Vait Talgaev is | |migration service said. |dissatisfied over how Terek played the home game. He said: I | |"Sputnik, one of the two |am not pleased with our teams play. Players were inactive in | |remaining camps, closed today. |defence. They played actively in the previous game in | |The last 137 people there have |Krasnodar. There will be a tough talk with players. The | |gone back to Chechnya," Yelena |following players played the game: Sergei Krashenko, Alexander| |Alexeyeva, a spokeswoman for the|Shamarko, Deni Gaisumov, Maksim Bokov, Alexander Lipko, Denis | |service, told AFP. "The only |Klyuev, Vladimir Sokolov who was replaced by Timur Dzhabrailov| |tent camp remaining in |in the 76th minute, Dmitri Khomukha, Andrei Fedkov who was | |Ingushetia is Satsita, which |replaced by David Sourada in the 68th minute, Oleg Tereokhin, | |currently has 1,900 refugees," |and Anton Kocherga who was replaced by Victor Bulatov in the | |Alexeyeva said. In January then |63rd minute. Terek opened the score by the efforts of two | |minister for Chechnya Stanislav |players who unexpectedly launched an attack. Kocherga gave a | |Ilyasov vowed to close |good pass to Klyuev in the penalty area and he had enough time| |Ingushetia's tent camps by March|to move into a good position and send the ball to the net. The| |1, though authorities backed off|guests could equalize in three minutes. Ushenin gave a pass | |the deadline after an outcry by |from the right flank to the penalty area and Lysenko headed | |rights groups. The camps in |the ball into the net in a beautiful jump. Terek concentrated | |Ingushetia are an embarassment |on defence in the second half and Kuban was free in the | |to the Kremlin, which insists |midfield. The activity of Kuban decreased as the time passed | |that the war that it launched in|since it was submitted to the draw. Significantly, the match | |the Caucasus republic is over |was played at the Central Stadium in Pyatigorsk that has | |and the refugees can safely |accommodation for 5000 fans. Terek will play its quarterfinal | |return home. But many of the |with Rotor from Volgograd, Lokomotiv of Moscow with Shinnik | |refugees have refused to return |from Yaroslaval, CSKA of Moscow with Krylya Sovetov from | |because a guerrilla war between |Samara and Torpedo-Metallurg of Moscow with Rostov from the | |separatists and pro-Moscow |Rostov-on-Don. The matches will be held on the 14th and the | |forces continues to claim lives |21st of April. | |on nearly a daily basis and |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |random kidnappings are common. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Authorities have been luring | | |refugees back to Chechnya with |[1497] 04 Mart 2004 Chechnya's national museum is reviving | |promises of compensation for |The Chechen national museum created by joining two large | |lost homes. As of February 13, |museums in 1996 in the North Caucasus the museum of the local | |65,208 refugees had registered |lore of the Checheno-Ingush autonomous republic and the fine | |for assistance with United |arts museum was inflicted heavy damage in the tragic years. | |Nations-affiliated international|90% of its funds were either destroyed or stolen. The Chechen | |organizations in Ingushetia, |authorities have started to revive the museum. According to | |according to UN figures. Out of |the director of the museum Vakhid Astalov, the museum started | |these, 5,678 were in the three |to receive valuable exhibits late last year. The republic's | |tent camps, 24,035 in temporary |cultural ministry bought 29 ethnographic items from private | |settlements, and 35,495 in |collections and several paintings by contemporary painters | |private accomodations. |devoted to post war Grozny. The museum plans to devote a hall | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |to the works by Chechen painters and get back paintings belong| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |to the museum but sent to the Grabar center in Moscow for | |more...) |restoration. This will be possible when the museum gets a | | |building. A year ago the Chechen government decided to hand | |Feds avert bomb attack in |over the big shopping center in Grozy to the museum. And the | |Chechnya capital |museum hopes to get the building shortly. Moscow museums also | | |try to help the Chechen museum to get a building. On the | |Federal forces have averted a |initiative of the director of the Tretyakov arts gallery in | |terrorist act in the centre of |Moscow, Valentin Rodionov a four-sided draft agreement on the | |Chechnyas capital Grozny. A |construction of a museum complex was worked out. The complex | |spokesman for the regional |includes museum building, school of arts and a boarding school| |Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass|for talented children. Russia's state construction committee | |that sappers had found and |has approved the project together with the Tretyakov Arts | |defused a powerful explosive |gallery. The project will be financed by a special fund | |device planted under a concrete |founded in 2002 to reconstruct the Chechen national museum. At| |slab on a street in one of |the moment the museum uses the theatre and concert hall built | |populous city districts. The |recently to exhibit its collection. | |bomb consisted of 400 grammas of|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |plastid, an electric detonator |(more News from Chechnya...) | |and destructive elements. It | | |could be set off with a radio. |[999] 02 April 2004 Today's view of the Grozny school of arts| |Security forces are searching |It was in 1996 that a school that put out cultural workers and| |for people who laid the bomb. |a school of music merged to form the Grozny school of arts | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |that brings together, under one roof, 336 would-be musicians, | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |painters, choreographers, librarians, and stage directors. In | |more...) |2001, Khizri Vakhabov was made the principal of that school. | | |At first, the school rejected no applicant. But last year saw | | Chechen history |two-to-one competition at the entrance exams, and even fiercer| | |competition among the would-be librarians and stage directors.| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|All departments, except that of choreography, hold the door | | |open to people with 8 and 10 years of regular schooling behind| |To Reader |their backs. It is only graduates of the Russian equivalent of| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |junior high school who are invited to the department of | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||choreography. All the five departments run four-year | |traditions| music |curriculae. Students get 70 rubles a month plus transportation| | |money. Although the school moved from Gudermes to Grozny, last| |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |year, those members of the Veinakh and Nokhcho dance companies| |, a Russian territory which has |who entered its department of choreography a few years before,| |witnessed the most tragic events|still go to classes in Gudermes. Two departments - music and | |over the past decade. The book |fine arts - are functioning in the village of Oisar which has | |is the latest update on the |three schools of arts. Students of the department of fine arts| |Chechen Republic . And this is |major in applied arts and handicrafts. Many talented boys and | |very important, since a lack of |girls go to the Grozny school of arts. Two of them - Zarema | |fresh and accurate information |Vadanova, who is doing her third year at the department of | |about events in Chechnya |music, and sophomore choreographer Alla Arsemikova - receive | |generates many distorted |800 rubles a month from the federal ministry of education. Two| |conceptions and rumours - both |students of the department of fine arts - Rustam Turtakhanov | |within and outside Russia . For |and Akhmed Makhmudov - received ministry grants last year. | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are | Russia - Chechnya | |marginalised; and lastly, that | | |Russian power structures are | Chechen traditions | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the |[229] | |legitimate authorities are |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |villages and towns being |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |restored, children going to |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |school for the first time in |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |many years, and pensioners |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |receiving long-forgotten |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |referendum on a new Chechen |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |constitution, and parliamentary |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |and presidential elections. |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |These votes will be held, |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |despite continued attempts by |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |bandit groups and their leaders |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |to scupper the process of |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |normalisation in the republic, |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |the latest terrorist act being |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |the bombing of the republican |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |government building. The war |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |being waged by Chechen |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |separatists against federal |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |forces and more often than not |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |against their own co-citizens is|stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |by no means a "national |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |liberation struggle of the |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |Chechen people", but an episode |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |in the overall offensive by |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |international terrorism on the |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |fundamental principles of modern|for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |civilisation. The facts show |any evil. | |that being a part of the Russian|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |Federation in no way threatens |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | Chechen tarditions | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |during de facto "independence" |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |from Russia that the Chechen |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |people suffered a humanitarian | | |tragedy on an unprecedented |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |trade and plundering came to |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |form the economic basis of the |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |new regime, while chaos and war |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |became the form of its political|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |existence. We want to emphasise |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |once more: Chechnya is part of |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |Russia , geographically, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |politically and |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |civilisation-wise. So a |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |hypothetical triumph of radical |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Islamism on its territory would |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |be anti-historical. Such a |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |development would signify the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |establishment in the midst of |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| | |with all ensuing consequences | Chechen cuisine | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |journalists of the Russian |traditions| music | |Information Agency Novosti - |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |have attempted to be as brief as|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |possible on providing answers to|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |the most-often aked questions |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |(above all posed by a foreign |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |audience) about the Chechen |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |issue. Hence the book's title: "|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Chechnya : Questions and |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Answers". It draws heavily on |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |information provided by various |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Russian ministries and |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |departments that in one or |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |another way are involved in |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |normalising life in the |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |republic. |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Russian Information Agency |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Novosti |their own. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|eng] in detail ...) | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | - | | Chechen economics | | | |## | |Urus-Martna district prepares | | |for fieldwork in the spring | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | | | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |[571] State farms in the | | |Urus-Martan district have | | |prepared tractors and other | | |agricultural machinery for | | |fieldwork in the spring. Only | | |Gekhinsky, Alkhanyurtovsky and | | |Solnychny farms have sufficient | | |seeds. But the rest have between| | |50and 60 percents only. The | | |neighbours have helped the farms| | |in the Urus-Martan district to | | |solve this problem. They offered| | |seeds and the directors of the | | |state farms will organize | | |transport to bring them. The | | |state farms in the district will| | |grow grain only because they | | |have no watering systems for | | |growing vegetable. This problem | | |will be solved shortly. | | |According to the head of the | | |agricultural department of the | | |local administration | | |Khodzh-Akhmed Khachukaev | | |believes that the district will | | |gather a good harvest since all | | |farmers are determined to do so.| | |He hopes that many farms will | | |excellently fulfill this years | | |target. | | |([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