The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 181 | | | 12.04.04 | |Russian Defense Ministry denies | | |Sergei Ivanovs complicity in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Yandarbiyevs assassination | | | |12 April 2004 Grozneftegas increases oil production in | |The Russian Defense Ministry |Chechnya | |perceives a statement about the |The Grozneftegaz Company of Grozny, which is a subsidiary of | |complicity of this country's |Rosneft, produced 473,000 tons of oil between January and | |Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov |March, 2004 4 percent up against the similar period of 2003, | |in the assassination of |Grozneftegaz Director-General Baudin Khamidov told PRIME-Tass.| |Yandarbiyev as completely |He attended on a meeting of senior executives of Rosneft and | |absurd. This was disclosed to |its subsidiaries, which was chaired by Vladimir Yakovlev, | |RIA Novosti today by Vyacheslav |official representative of the President in the Southern | |Sedov, chief of the national |Federal District. According to Khamidov, Grozneftegaz, which | |Defense Ministry's press center.|is the only oil producing company in Chechnya, exceeded the | |Chechen bandit leader Zelimkhan |plan for the first three months by 3,000 tons. Khamidov | |Yandarbiyev died February 13 |believes that Grozneftegaz will produce in 2004 1.96 million | |when his car exploded in Doha, |tons of oil as against 1.78 million tons in 2003, which will | |the capital of Qatar. Some Arab |bring them close to the reaching of the key target two million| |newspapers claimed April 12 that|tons of oil annually for the coming several years. The average| |Russia's Defense Minister Sergei|daily oil production of Grozneftegaz is 5,400 tons. Three oil | |Ivanov was involved in |well, which were blown up as a result of acts of terrorism | |Yandarbiyev's assassination. |last March, will be put out within two months, Khamidov added.| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |More money should be invested in the modernization of | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Grozneftegaz enterprises, the struggle should be stepped up | |more...) |against oil losses through stealing from oil wells and through| | |unsanctioned pumping of oil out of pipelines, and oil revenues| |Easter services held in Grozny |to the republic budget should be increased, Viktor Krokhmal, | | |deputy representative of the President in the Southern Federal| |Easter liturgies were served in |District, told journalists. The remaining extractable oil | |the capital of the Chechen |reserves of Chechnya amount to 30 million tons, which permits | |Republic, Grozny, for the first |to extract oil until 2022. Prospected oil reserves, whose | |time in recent years, reported |presence should be confirmed by the drilling of oil wells, | |the press-service of the |were estimated late in 2003 only at 14 million tons. | |Stavropol diosese of the Russian|Grozneftegaz was created in accordance with Government | |Orthodox Church. By blessing of |Resolution No. 844, dated November 4, 2000, entitled On | |Bishop of Stavropol and |priority measures for restoring the oil and gas complex of the| |Vladikavkaz Feofan, Easter |Chechen Republic. Its main spheres of operation include the | |services to mark the Great |production, storage, preparation and transportation of oil and| |Saturday and Resurrection were |gas. A total of four million tons of oil were produced between| |conducted by Hegumen Filaret and|2000 and 2003. | |a group of seminarists of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Stavrolpol Theological Seminary,|(more News from Chechnya...) | |who had arrived in Grozny on | | |April 10. Celebrations took |10 Mart 2004 Suicide bomber trainer killed in Chechnya | |place in the Archangel Michael |Abu Bakar Visimbaev, a suicide bomber trainer who trained the | |Church, for the time being |terrorist who attacked the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow, | |adapted to services following |was killed in Chechnya, the official spokesman of the Regional| |its destruction during military |Headquarters for antiterrorist operations in the North | |hostilities. In his message to |Caucusus, Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, told RIA Novosti. | |the laity of Chechnya, Feofan |"Visimbaev, the personal bodyguard of Shamil Basaev [a | |said: "Visiting parishes in |militants leader, who according to Chechen President Akhmad | |restive Chechnya gives rise, |Kadyrov, fears Aslan Maskadov, the leader of the Chechen | |although the heart is painful, |resistance], recruited suicide bombers for terrorist attacks | |to the hope and firm expectation|in the North Caucasus and Russia. He personally trained the | |that the Lord will send peace to|Ganiev sisters, who committed the terrorist attack on Dubrovka| |these blood-drenched places, for|[129 people were held hostage on October 23-26, 2002]," the | |our God is God of peace and |colonel said. | |love, God of unity and accord". |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |(more News from Chechnya...) | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] | | |more...) |09 April 2004 Interior minister reports to President on | | |fighting crime | | Chechen history |Russian President Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with | | |Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev. At the presidents | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|request, the minister reported to him about the state of | | |things with fighting crime in Russia, specifically work to | |To Reader |prevent and reveal crimes on racial basis. They also discussed| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |consolidating interior bodies in the Chechen Republic. | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Nurgaliyev said work in the first quarter was at the same | |traditions| music |level as last year, adding that there are problems with crimes| | |for mercenary purposes, including thefts, robberies, crimes | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |against property. He said the effectiveness of revealing | |, a Russian territory which has |crimes for mercenary purposes was raised four percent. | |witnessed the most tragic events|Regarding the investigation of terrorist acts, the minister | |over the past decade. The book |said it should be borne in mind that deeply camouflaged bandit| |is the latest update on the |rings function in the country. As regards economic crimes, the| |Chechen Republic . And this is |minister pointed out to crimes in the area of the fuel and | |very important, since a lack of |energy complex and said more attention should be given to | |fresh and accurate information |fighting these crimes. Following the conference of chiefs of | |about events in Chechnya |the interior bodies in the Southern Federal District, which | |generates many distorted |was held under the presidents guidance, special attention in | |conceptions and rumours - both |the ministrys activity was given to the problem of fighting | |within and outside Russia . For |economic crimes in the district. Regarding the establishment | |example, that Chechen society is|of interior bodies in the Chechen Republic, Nurgaliyev said | |allegedly inherently alien to |that their work in the first quarter of this year was more | |Russia , that pro-Russian |effective than last year. He said there is more interaction | |elements in the republic are |between departments of the interior bodies of Chechnya and | |marginalised; and lastly, that |federal departments. There are serious results in revealing | |Russian power structures are |economic crimes, grave and particularly grave crimes. The | |fighting the Chechen people, |minister said one of priorities in this area is enhancing the | |rather than armed bandit groups.|level of professionalism of staffers of interior bodies in the| |The reality, however, is that |Chechen Republic. Over 2,000 people acquired initial | |only with the return of the |professional skills and will be using these skills in | |legitimate authorities are |restoring police in the republic. Nurgaliyev said personnel | |villages and towns being |for interior bodies of Chechnya is trained in 29 special | |restored, children going to |higher educational establishments of the country. The branch | |school for the first time in |of the Krasnodar Academy of the Interior Ministry opens from | |many years, and pensioners |September 1 in Grozny. Nearly 100 specialists will be trained | |receiving long-forgotten |there. Putin stressed in this connection that interior bodies | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |of the Chechen Republic should gradually assume full | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |responsibility for the maintenance of security and law and | |referendum on a new Chechen |order in the republic. I do mean all responsibility, including| |constitution, and parliamentary |the responsibility now borne by anti-terrorist units and | |and presidential elections. |staffs, the president said. Nurgaliyev said in this connection| |These votes will be held, |that with active role of the republics Interior Ministry as | |despite continued attempts by |many as 145 bandits were put out of action and more than 60 | |bandit groups and their leaders |bandits laid down arms. | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | Russia - Chechnya | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen traditions | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national |[229] | |liberation struggle of the |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |Chechen people", but an episode |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |in the overall offensive by |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |international terrorism on the |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |fundamental principles of modern|guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |civilisation. The facts show |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |that being a part of the Russian|hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |Federation in no way threatens |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |identity, the free use of its |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |own language, and preaching |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |during de facto "independence" |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |from Russia that the Chechen |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |people suffered a humanitarian |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |trade and plundering came to |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |form the economic basis of the |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |new regime, while chaos and war |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |became the form of its political|basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |existence. We want to emphasise |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |once more: Chechnya is part of |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |Russia , geographically, |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |politically and |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |civilisation-wise. So a |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |hypothetical triumph of radical |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |Islamism on its territory would |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |be anti-historical. Such a |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |development would signify the |any evil. | |establishment in the midst of |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |with all ensuing consequences | | |for the international community.| Chechen tarditions | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |Information Agency Novosti - |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |have attempted to be as brief as|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |(above all posed by a foreign |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |audience) about the Chechen |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Chechnya : Questions and |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Answers". It draws heavily on |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |information provided by various |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Russian ministries and |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |departments that in one or |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |another way are involved in |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |normalising life in the |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |republic. |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Russian Information Agency |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Novosti |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | Chechen cuisine | | Chechen economics | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Urus-Martna district prepares |traditions| music | |for fieldwork in the spring |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | | |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |[571] State farms in the |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Urus-Martan district have |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |prepared tractors and other |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |agricultural machinery for |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |fieldwork in the spring. Only |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Gekhinsky, Alkhanyurtovsky and |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Solnychny farms have sufficient |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |seeds. But the rest have between|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |50and 60 percents only. The |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |neighbours have helped the farms|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |in the Urus-Martan district to |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |solve this problem. They offered|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |seeds and the directors of the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |state farms will organize |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |transport to bring them. The |their own. | |state farms in the district will|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |grow grain only because they |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Khodzh-Akhmed Khachukaev | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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