The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 182 | | | 16.04.04 | |Chechnya-Daghestan: Interior | | |Ministers take stock of crime |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |efforts | | | |[4926] 16 April 2004 Murat Chunkayev wants to be world | |The Interior Ministry boards of |champion | |Chechnya and |Murat Chunkayevs cherished dream is to become world champion | |Daghestan-neighbouring North |in combat without rules sport. Aged 25, he does not just dream| |Caucasian republics-had a joint |but is working hard to reach that goal. He started his | |session in Daghestan's |sporting career at 8 when his family lived in South Suhokumsk.| |Khasavyurt. They discussed |There he enrolled in the free wrestling section. In 1998 he | |law-enforcement team efforts |together with his family moved to Hasan-Yurt where he | |with an emphasis on organised |continued his sport training and in 2001, Chunkayev moved to | |crime, gangs and religious |Belgium and got acquainted with a coach in jiu-jitsu. He | |extremism. District and |immediately took a liking to the combat sport. He started | |municipal Interior boards of the|training simultaneously in both free style wrestling and | |two republics' borderline areas |jiu-jitsu. In his first competitions in jiu-jitsu, he won all | |will bear the greatest |and became two - time champion of Europe. He began taking part| |responsibility to meet posed |in combat without rules quite recently and was only 18 when he| |objectives, determined the |first saw the sport. Then he didnt think that one day he will | |conferees. Prominent at the |be a participant in that sort of competition. Murat Chunkayev | |conference were republican |was urged by the jiu-jitsu coach to try his prowess in that | |Interior |sport and he readily agreed Together with the coach he went to| |Ministers-Lieutenant-General |Holland to watch professionals in training. For about a month | |Azilghirei Magomedtaghirov of |he trained in the Golden- Glory club and after evaluating | |Daghestan and Major-General Alvu|Murat Chunkayevs potential chiefs of the club signed a | |Alkhanov of Chechnya. |contract with him and thus began his new sporting career. His | |Information of the conference |records so far are 8 fights, 7 victories, 6 by knockouts and | |reached Novosti from Colonel |one loss. His most important victory was in Rotterdam on | |Abdulmanap Mussayev of the |October 13 2002 over two-time world champion in the sport of | |police, chief of PR for the |combat without rules, Andrei Semenov. Despite his height of | |Daghestani Interior Ministry. |183 centimeters and 90 kilogrammes weight, in the ring Murat | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chunkayev demonstrates amazing maneuverability, dexterity and | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |quickness. He believes that in his new sport it is vital to be| |more...) |a universal sportsman and hence he now has three coaches: one | | |in kick boxing, one in wrestling and the 3rd in jiu-jitsu. | |Numbers of Chechen refugees |Murat Chunkayevs goal today is to become world champion in | |decrease in Ingushetia |combat without rules and on retiring from professional sport | | |he would like to open his own club to train the younger | |About 1,600 Chechen refugees are|generation. Hopefully such a club will be established in | |staying in the last tent camp in|Chechnya.. | |Ingushetia. The chief of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Chechen governments |(more News from Chechnya...) | |representative office in | | |Ingushetia, Sharap Beldurov, |16 Mart 2004 UN should reconsider its human rights protection| |told Itar-Tass that 345 tents |strategies Russian Ombudsman | |remain in the camp where 387 |In the face of modern threats and challenges, the United | |families live. The population of|Nations should reconsider the entire practice of applying the | |the tent camp at the beginning |international law, argues Ella Pamfilova, Chair of the Russian| |of this year was 3,000. Most of |President's Human Rights Commission. Speaking at the 60th | |refugees are still waiting for |session of the UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, | |notices for getting compensation|Pamfilova said that more often than not now, the international| |for destroyed housing and |law fails to protect the weak from the mighty. "The crisis in | |property, Beldurov said. |the application of the international law, the ambiguity and | |Notification and payment of |heterogeneity of approaches to solving international problems,| |travelling expenses, 1,000 |the clash between geo-strategic interests, and the pressure of| |roubles to a family, were |the political situation to the detriment of the principles of | |stopped because of the change of|human rights protection have made all the more difficult the | |the government in Chechnya, he |activity of human rights institutions in many countries across| |explained. He expressed hope |the world," Pamfilova said at the conference. She also urged | |that the process would resume |the UN Human Rights Commission to review "the mechanisms for | |soon. Beldurov said the last |adopting its resolutions and the implications of their | |refugee camp was bound to be |adoption, " analyzing "what they [resolutions] give in today's| |closed in May. ([http:// |situation-whether they really help solve a problem or only | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |drive it deeper into the system, alienating some nations from | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |the ideals of human rights protection." Pamfilova told about | | |the activity of the Russian President's Human Rights | | Chechen history |Commission, which, according to her, had become a liaison | | |agency between civil society and the Kremlin. As for Chechnya,| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|"Russia's most acute problem," the humanitarian situation | | |there has changed dramatically in the past year, Pamfilova | |To Reader |assured. It is still far from safe there, people go missing, | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |and rights of civilians are infringed upon, but human rights | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||are no longer violated on a mass scale, as was the case just a| |traditions| music |year ago. Western countries sometimes use alleged human rights| | |abuses as a pretext to bring pressure to bear on Russia, and | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |put spokes in her wheels instead of offering a helping hand. | |, a Russian territory which has |Those who know a better and faster way of restoring peace to | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechnya should suggest it to Russia, but with due account | |over the past decade. The book |taken of the nation's distinctive features, she said, citing | |is the latest update on the |the recent flareups in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq as | |Chechen Republic . And this is |experiences that give ample food for thought to "those | |very important, since a lack of |accustomed to boss the entire world around." | |fresh and accurate information |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |about events in Chechnya |(more News from Chechnya...) | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |16 April 2004 UN Rights Commission votes down Chechnya | |within and outside Russia . For |resolution | |example, that Chechen society is|As things really are, Chechnya has no burning problems with | |allegedly inherently alien to |human rights, whatever attempts might be made to misrepresent | |Russia , that pro-Russian |the situation, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, said | |elements in the republic are |to the media. He was commenting a resolution on Chechnya, | |marginalised; and lastly, that |which the United Nations Human Rights Commission turned down. | |Russian power structures are |The document was alleging rights violations. The resolution | |fighting the Chechen people, |scored 23 "no" votes-in particular, Chinese, Cuban and Indian,| |rather than armed bandit groups.|as against 12 "yes", 18 abstaining. European Union countries | |The reality, however, is that |made a majority of resolution supporters. A total 53 countries| |only with the return of the |were voting. | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in | Russia - Chechnya | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | Chechen traditions | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary |[229] | |and presidential elections. |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |These votes will be held, |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |despite continued attempts by |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |bandit groups and their leaders |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |to scupper the process of |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |normalisation in the republic, |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |the latest terrorist act being |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |the bombing of the republican |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |government building. The war |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |being waged by Chechen |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |separatists against federal |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |forces and more often than not |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |against their own co-citizens is|aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |by no means a "national |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |liberation struggle of the |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |Chechen people", but an episode |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |in the overall offensive by |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |international terrorism on the |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |fundamental principles of modern|meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |civilisation. The facts show |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |that being a part of the Russian|basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |Federation in no way threatens |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |identity, the free use of its |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |own language, and preaching |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |during de facto "independence" |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |from Russia that the Chechen |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |people suffered a humanitarian |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |tragedy on an unprecedented |any evil. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |trade and plundering came to |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war | Chechen tarditions | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |once more: Chechnya is part of |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Russia , geographically, |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |hypothetical triumph of radical |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Islamism on its territory would |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |be anti-historical. Such a |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |development would signify the |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |establishment in the midst of |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |with all ensuing consequences |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |for the international community.|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |The corporate author - |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |journalists of the Russian |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |Information Agency Novosti - |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |have attempted to be as brief as|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |possible on providing answers to|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |the most-often aked questions |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |(above all posed by a foreign |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |audience) about the Chechen | | |issue. Hence the book's title: "| Chechen cuisine | |Chechnya : Questions and | | |Answers". It draws heavily on |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |information provided by various |traditions| music | |Russian ministries and |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |departments that in one or |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |another way are involved in |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |normalising life in the |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |republic. |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Russian Information Agency |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Novosti |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |=eng] in detail ...) |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | | |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | | Chechen economics |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | | |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Urus-Martna district prepares |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |for fieldwork in the spring |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |[571] State farms in the |their own. | |Urus-Martan district have |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |prepared tractors and other |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |neighbours have helped the farms| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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