The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 183 | | | 21.04.04 | |UN delegation visiting Chechnya | | | |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |A UN delegation arrived in | | |Chechnya on April 22 to see the |[4523] 21 April 2004 Grozny's waterworks are rebuit | |humanitarian situation in the |Quality potable water is what life depends on. The World | |republic, the chief of the |Health Organization says, however, that about 2 billion people| |Chechen presidents press |experience shortages of potable water. The Chechens, of all | |service, Abdulbek Vakhayev, td |people, do not go thirsty. And, what sounds even better, they | |Itar-Tass. He said the |draw clear and sweet water from their mountainous brooks. And | |eight-member delegation includes|yet, some Chechens have a reason to be displeased. People get | |a representative of the UN High |next to no water from their hissing kitchen faucets in some | |Commissioner for Refugees |neighborhoods of Grozny. Frequent repairs are to blame for the| |Office, Kasidis Rochancorn, and |absence of water, and it is technically unfeasible to pump | |Canadas Ambassador to Russia |water to the upper stories of high-rise projects. Although | |Christopher Westdal. The |they are in the habit of lodging complaints against the | |delegation is going to discuss |metropolitan waterworks, people admit that the delivery of | |assistance to the restoration of|potable water has improved. As many as 85 percent of the | |Chechnyas social facilities. The|residents of Grozny, which used to bring all its water from | |members of the delegations have |far away, are provided with tap water whose quality is | |visited a centre accommodating |monitored by the Chechen center of the Federal Epidemiological| |people whose houses were damaged|Service. Water is tested twice a week, and the medical workers| |by the last years floods, a |have lodged no major complaints against the water authority of| |centre of psychological |Grozny. Three water supply stations - Starosunzhensky, | |rehabilitation and several |Gitinsky, and Checrnorechensky - have, over the past three | |schools. The delegation will |years, been put in operation in Grozny. The distribution | |meet President Akhmad Kadyrov |system is being rebuilt (don't forget that the waterworks run | |later in the day. Vakhayev said |for 2,023 kilometers, and the sewage system has 510 kilometers| |two million dollars had been |of fifty-year-old and, naturally, worn-out piping!) The | |issue through the UN to Chechnya|mid-90's brought more trouble: as their seams were strained by| |since the beginning of this year|the bomb blasts, the pipes started leaking. The sewage system | |for restoration programmes. We |presents fewer problems. Occasional obstructions are written | |welcome any help, accept it with|off as easy-to-be-eliminated. There are 471 people on the | |gratitude, and are ready to help|staff of the metropolitan waterworks; there must be three | |the development of such |times as many. Over the past few years, the water authority | |cooperation in every way he |had barely enough money for run-of-the-mill repairs. But major| |said. We would want that the |repairs have been scheduled for this and next year. The | |foreign guest make sure that |allocations will come from the federal government. And, more | |Chechnya is firmly on a footing |good news for Grozny: all neighborhoods of the Chechen capital| |of peaceful building at present |will be provided with tap water as soon as the Samashkinsky | |and that we are open to |water supply station is put in operation, sometime this fall. | |humanitarian cooperation, he |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |said. In November 2003, the UN |(more News from Chechnya...) | |and 20 non-governmental | | |organizations, including the |[4368] 20 Mart 2004 A branch of Rosselhozbank opens in | |World Health Organization, the |Achxoi-Martan | |World Food Program and the |The opening ceremony of a branch of the Rosselhozbank was | |Office of the UN High |recently held in Achxoi-Martan region in Chechnya. The | |Commissioner for Refugees, |administration head of the region, regional commandant, chief | |called on the world community to|of the field section of the bank as well as captains of | |issue to Chechnya 62 million |companies and organizations located in Achxoi-Martan took part| |dollars in aid this year. Half |in the opening festivities. The event brought happiness to | |of the funds is to go into a |local residents. Firstly, it represented one more evidence | |food programme for residents of |that Chechnya is living in a normal financial regime and | |Chechnya and refugees and |secondly, Achxoi-Martan residents will now find it easy to | |another 18 million into housing,|carry out financial operations in the area without having to | |education and health sectors. UN|travel to a neighbnouring region carrying a large sum of money| |Under-Secretary for Humanitarian|exposing themselves to great danger. The Achxoi-Martan branch | |Affairs Jan Egelund first |of Rosselhozbank will offer the following services to | |visited Chechnya in January |residents: attracting companies money to the on demand deposit| |2004. He then assured that the |account and for a fixed period of time on the banks lending | |UN is interested in activation |rates, the opening and operating of a banking account by | |of cooperation with Russia and |firms, bills and account settling on behalf of companies and | |would send a major part of the |individuals, collecting and encashment of money for companies | |humanitarian aid to Chechnya. |and individuals. In addition, the branch will also pay | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |compensation to residents for damaged houses and lost | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |property. The branch has the technical possibility of | |more...) |effecting payments and to carry out money transfers on a daily| | |basis. Chief of the Chechen branch of Rosselhozbank, Usman | |FSB responsible for |Yerihanov, has said that the opening of Achxoi-Martan branch | |antiterrorist actions on CIS |will help in the development of both small and medium scale | |territory |businesses and that is because the branch plans to give | | |credits to local enterprises. On the whole Achxoi-Martan has | |Russian President Vladimir Putin|mainly agriculture based companies and that will most | |signed a decree "On competent |favourably help accelerate an increase in agricultural | |body of the Russian Federation |production in the region. Rosselhozbank is so far the only | |responsible for holding joint |bank functioning in Chechnya and as at today 5 branches of the| |antiterrorist actions on the |bank have been opened including the Achxoi-Martan one All the | |territory of the CIS |branches are connected to a single system, enabling any | |(Commonwealth of Independent |monetary operation to be carried out with ease. | |States) member-countries," the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Russian President's |(more News from Chechnya...) | |press-service disclosed. The | | |role of the competent body was |[2315] 20 April 2004 The Task of Electrical Engineers in | |assigned to the Russian Federal |Chechnya | |Security Service (FSB). The |Engineers of the Nurenergo company are completing the work at | |decree comes into force starting|the main substation that has two 25 000 kva-transformers. The | |from the day of its signing. |substation links all 110 kilovolt power lines in the republic.| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |This makes it possible to distribute electricity evenly among | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |cities and villages. The substation reduces the time of | |more...) |blackouts in case of breakdowns. It also reduces the over | | |loading of the power systems in Grozny and Grozny region. It | | Chechen history |will supply electricity to lkhankala, Alkhaniyurt, Kulary, | | |Samashka, the first state farm and the village of | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Oktyaberskoe. The company gives priority to supplying | | |electricity to villages and settlements in the mountainous | |To Reader |regions, including the Sharoi district. Dagenergo Company is | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |expected to supply energy to these settlements. Electrical | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||engineers in Chechnya have tested a turbine and a generator at| |traditions| music |the Argun thermal power station under no load conditions after| | |reconstruction. The capacity of the power station is 6 | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |megawatt. 72-hour testing showed that technological parameters| |, a Russian territory which has |and vibration characteristics are within the limits. This will| |witnessed the most tragic events|be the first power facility that will be reconstructed. The | |over the past decade. The book |reconstruction was started in 2002. Unified Energy Systems of | |is the latest update on the |Russia spent 487 million rubles for this purpose last year and| |Chechen Republic . And this is |another 300 million rubles will be allocated this year. The | |very important, since a lack of |capacity of the power station will be increased to 18 megawatt| |fresh and accurate information |when the construction work ends. The power station will supply| |about events in Chechnya |heat and electricity to Argun and several other districts. | |generates many distorted |Since it creates many jobs unemployment will be resolved | |conceptions and rumours - both |significantly. The commissioning of the power station makes it| |within and outside Russia . For |possible for the sugar factory, meat processing plant and | |example, that Chechen society is|reinforced concrete making factory to work in full capacity. | |allegedly inherently alien to |The first block is expected to commission on the inauguration | |Russia , that pro-Russian |day of the Chechen President. | |elements in the republic are | | |marginalised; and lastly, that | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Russian power structures are | | |fighting the Chechen people, | Russia - Chechnya | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that | Chechen traditions | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to |[229] | |school for the first time in |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |many years, and pensioners |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |receiving long-forgotten |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |referendum on a new Chechen |Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |constitution, and parliamentary |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |and presidential elections. |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |These votes will be held, |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |despite continued attempts by |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |bandit groups and their leaders |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |to scupper the process of |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |normalisation in the republic, |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |the latest terrorist act being |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |the bombing of the republican |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |government building. The war |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |being waged by Chechen |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |separatists against federal |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |forces and more often than not |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |against their own co-citizens is|life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |by no means a "national |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |liberation struggle of the |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |Chechen people", but an episode |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |in the overall offensive by |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |international terrorism on the |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |fundamental principles of modern|ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |civilisation. The facts show |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |that being a part of the Russian|someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |Federation in no way threatens |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|any evil. | |identity, the free use of its |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |own language, and preaching |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | Chechen tarditions | |from Russia that the Chechen | | |people suffered a humanitarian |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |new regime, while chaos and war |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |became the form of its political|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |existence. We want to emphasise |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |once more: Chechnya is part of |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Russia , geographically, |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |politically and |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |civilisation-wise. So a |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |hypothetical triumph of radical |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Islamism on its territory would |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |be anti-historical. Such a |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |development would signify the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |establishment in the midst of |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |with all ensuing consequences |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |for the international community.|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | Chechen cuisine | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |possible on providing answers to|traditions| music | |the most-often aked questions |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |(above all posed by a foreign |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |audience) about the Chechen |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Chechnya : Questions and |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Answers". It draws heavily on |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |information provided by various |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Russian ministries and |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |departments that in one or |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |another way are involved in |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |normalising life in the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |republic. |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Russian Information Agency |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Novosti |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |=eng] in detail ...) |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| | Chechen economics |eng] in detail ...) | | | | |Grozny's waterworks are rebuit | - | | | | |[4253] Quality potable water is |## | |what life depends on. The World | | |Health Organization says, | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |however, that about 2 billion | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |people experience shortages of | | |potable water. The Chechens, of | | |all people, do not go thirsty. | | |And, what sounds even better, | | |they draw clear and sweet water | | |from their mountainous brooks. | | |And yet, some Chechens have a | | |reason to be displeased. People | | |get next to no water from their | | |hissing kitchen faucets in some | | |neighborhoods of Grozny. | | |Frequent repairs are to blame | | |for the absence of water, and it| | |is technically unfeasible to | | |pump water to the upper stories | | |of high-rise projects. Although | | |they are in the habit of lodging| | |complaints against the | | |metropolitan waterworks, people | | |admit that the delivery of | | |potable water has improved. As | | |many as 85 percent of the | | |residents of Grozny, which used | | |to bring all its water from far | | |away, are provided with tap | | |water whose quality is monitored| | |by the Chechen center of the | | |Federal Epidemiological Service.| | |Water is tested twice a week, | | |and the medical workers have | | |lodged no major complaints | | |against the water authority of | | |Grozny. Three water supply | | |stations - Starosunzhensky, | | |Gitinsky, and Checrnorechensky -| | |have, over the past three years,| | |been put in operation in Grozny.| | |The distribution system is being| | |rebuilt (don't forget that the | | |waterworks run for 2,023 | | |kilometers, and the sewage | | |system has 510 kilometers of | | |fifty-year-old and, naturally, | | |worn-out piping!) The mid-90's | | |brought more trouble: as their | | |seams were strained by the bomb | | |blasts, the pipes started | | |leaking. The sewage system | | |presents fewer problems. | | |Occasional obstructions are | | |written off as | | |easy-to-be-eliminated. There are| | |471 people on the staff of the | | |metropolitan waterworks; there | | |must be three times as many. | | |Over the past few years, the | | |water authority had barely | | |enough money for run-of-the-mill| | |repairs. But major repairs have | | |been scheduled for this and next| | |year. The allocations will come | | |from the federal government. | | |And, more good news for Grozny: | | |all neighborhoods of the Chechen| | |capital will be provided with | | |tap water as soon as the | | |Samashkinsky water supply | | |station is put in operation, | | |sometime this fall. | | |([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