The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 180 | | | 08.04.04 | |A female courier with money for | | |militants detained in Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The law-enforcement bodies |08 April 2004 Chechnya President to intercede for Maskhadov | |apprehended a female courier who|if he gives himself up | |was delivering money to |Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, is ready to intercede | |militants in Chechnya. As RIA |for leader of militants Aslan Maskhadov in case he gives | |Novosti was told in the Regional|himself up, said the Kadyrov press service. "At the meeting | |Operative Headquarters in charge|with high officials of the Chechen Interior Ministry and | |of control of the anti-terrorist|public figures in Gudermes, the Chechen president said that he| |operation in the North Caucasus,|is ready for talks with Maskhadov if they intend the ending of| |$180,000 was confiscated from |resistance and voluntary surrender", said the press service. | |the detained - Madina Atabayeva.|In Kadyrov's opinion, Maskhadov will not take the initiative | |As a result of the check it was |while terrorist Shamil Basaev is at large. The Chechen | |established that $140,000 out of|president said that Maskhadov is afraid of Basaev and cannot | |this sum is false, the Operative|decide on talks, the press service said. Rudnik Dudaev, | |Headquarters report says. |secretary of the Chechen Security Council, told RIA Novosti | |Atabayeva confessed that she was|that during his trip to Gudermes Kadyrov met with 15 former | |to pass this money to the |deputies of the so-called parliament of Ichkeria (self-name | |so-called field commander |for Chechnya). "The Chechen president told them that they | |Makhram Saidov. |should no longer doubt that the present power in Chechnya has | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |come to stay", Rudnik Dudaev said. Kadyrov stressed that it is| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |very important for the deputies voluntarily to surrender their| |more...) |powers and cease making political declarations. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |A.Yakovenko: Moscow works to |(more News from Chechnya...) | |return Russians detained in | | |Qatar home |08 Mart 2004 Freight train explodes in Chechnya | | |An explosive device exploded on a railroad in Chechnya as a | |Moscow is doing its best to |freight train passed, a source at the Chechen Interior | |release the Russians detained in|Ministry told RIA Novosti. "On Wednesday at 8:27 p.m., at the | |Qatar, the Russian Foreign |97th kilometer of the North-Caucasian railway, a freight train| |Ministry's official spokesman |carrying oil tanks exploded as it was passing the village of | |Alexander Yakovenko said at a |Ishcherskaya [Naursky district]," the source said. According | |conference in RIA Novosti. "As |to the source, there were no victims, however the train was | |to the situation with the |damaged. Rail traffic has not been halted, the source added. | |Russians detained in Qatar, the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russian party is doing its best |(more News from Chechnya...) | |to bring them home," he said. | | |When asked about the role of the|08 April 2004 Elections to Chechnyas parliament may be held | |Americans in the detention, |this fall | |Yakovenko recalled that |Hussein Isayev, head of the State Council of the Chechen | |Washington had already |Republic, hopes that elections to the parliament of Chechnya | |officially announced what |will be held in autumn of 2004. The State Council of the | |assistance it had rendered. "In |Chechen Republic will put forward an initiative of holding | |this case it was identification |elections to the parliament," he said. "I think that this | |of explosives," he added. In the|autumn - in October or November - we'll hold parliamentary | |early hours of February 19 the |elections," he said. He recalled at that, that, according to | |Qatari special services in Doha |the law, it is the President of the Russian Federation who | |arrested three Russian citizens.|sets the date of the first elections to the parliament of the | |One of them, who had a |Chechen Republic. After the election of the two chambers of | |diplomatic passport, was later |the Chechen parliament, the State Council, which is the | |released and returned home. The |transitional higher representative body of power, will resign.| |Qatari authorities accuse the |The State Council of the Chechen Republic was formed on June | |Russians of involvement in the |21, 2003. It includes all heads of cities and districts, as | |murder of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev,|well elected representatives (one from each district). The | |a leader of Chechen separatists.|delegation of the Chechen State Council with Hussein Isayev at| |Yandarbiyev was killed on |the head arrived in St Petersburg on Wednesday. Here Isayev | |February 13, in a car explosion |met with Vadim Tyulpanov, chairman of the city legislative | |in Doha where he had lived for |assembly, and addressed the session of legislators. Within the| |several years. The Russian |framework of the visit the delegation of the Chechen State | |Foreign Ministry has repeatedly |Council is to meet with chairmen of some committees of the St | |announced that the Russian |Petersburg legislative assembly. | |citizens were not involved in | | |the murder and insisted on their| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |being released and returned | | |home. ([http:// | Russia - Chechnya | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) | Chechen traditions | | | | | Chechen history |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|[229] | | |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |To Reader |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |traditions| music |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | | |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |, a Russian territory which has |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |witnessed the most tragic events|clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |over the past decade. The book |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |is the latest update on the |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |Chechen Republic . And this is |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |very important, since a lack of |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |fresh and accurate information |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |about events in Chechnya |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |generates many distorted |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |conceptions and rumours - both |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |within and outside Russia . For |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |example, that Chechen society is|meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |allegedly inherently alien to |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |Russia , that pro-Russian |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |elements in the republic are |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |marginalised; and lastly, that |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |Russian power structures are |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |fighting the Chechen people, |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |rather than armed bandit groups.|ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |The reality, however, is that |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |only with the return of the |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |legitimate authorities are |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |villages and towns being |any evil. | |restored, children going to |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |school for the first time in |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | Chechen tarditions | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |referendum on a new Chechen |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |constitution, and parliamentary |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |and presidential elections. | | |These votes will be held, |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |despite continued attempts by |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |bandit groups and their leaders |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |to scupper the process of |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |normalisation in the republic, |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |the latest terrorist act being |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |the bombing of the republican |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |government building. The war |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |being waged by Chechen |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |separatists against federal |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |forces and more often than not |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |against their own co-citizens is|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |by no means a "national |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |liberation struggle of the |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Chechen people", but an episode |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |in the overall offensive by |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern| Chechen cuisine | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Federation in no way threatens |traditions| music | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |identity, the free use of its |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |own language, and preaching |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |during de facto "independence" |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |from Russia that the Chechen |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |people suffered a humanitarian |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |tragedy on an unprecedented |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |trade and plundering came to |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |form the economic basis of the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |new regime, while chaos and war |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |became the form of its political|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |existence. We want to emphasise |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |once more: Chechnya is part of |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Russia , geographically, |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |politically and |their own. | |civilisation-wise. So a |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |hypothetical triumph of radical |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |for the international community.| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Urus-Martna district prepares | | |for fieldwork in the spring | | | | | |[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