The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 184 | | | 23.04.04 | |No militants will remain in | | |Chechnya in 3 years? |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The head of the Chechen |[999] 23 April 2004 A musical competition for children ends | |president's security service, |in Chechnya | |Ramzan Kadyrov believes that in |A three-round competition for pupils ages between 8 and 14 of | |two-three years there will be no|musical and arts schools continued in Chechnya for two months.| |terrorists in Chechnya. He said |The first round was held at the schools themselves and the | |this to journalists, expressing |second one in Argun, Achkhoi-Martan, Urus-Martan, Shelkov, | |confidence that for the majority|Shali and Nozhai-Yurt districts and the cities of Grozny, | |of those "irreconcilable" "the |Argun and Gudermes. The final was held at the new | |last summer and winter are |theatre-concert hall in Grozny. From 30 to 40 pupils - | |coming." In Kadyrov's words, |singers, dancers, musicians and choruses - represented each | |despite the fact that |district. Though the pupils have no good conditions for their | |restoration of Chechnya's |studies they demonstrated talents excellently. The jury | |economy will take several years,|included the head of the department of arts and educational | |and that the rehabilitation of |establishments of the Chechen ministry of culture Adlam | |Grozny, the capital of Chechnya,|Mazhidov, director of the peoples creative centre Ramzan | |will take about 10-12 years, |Daudov and a sitar player a singer of the Expansia group Vakha| |tourists will be able to come |Isaev. It decided to award 11 first places for various | |here earlier "to enjoy the |nominations, 12 second places and 11 third places. The winners| |republic's beauty." Answering |of the competition are expected to stage a concert at the | |the question about the leaders |Theatre-Concert hall in the Chechen capital. They will be | |of gang formations, Ramzan |awarded prizes and certificates. Summing up the results of the| |Kadyrov said that former |competition the chief expert at the department of arts and | |president Aslan Maskhadov does |educational establishments Usman Istamulov said that all 29 | |not pose any danger to the |arts and musical schools took part in the competition. He said| |domestic policy situation in |that 4 500 children attend these schools where the staff is | |Chechnya. "He does not worry us.|240 teachers, Any child who passed an interview and musical | |My dream is to catch or kill |test can join any of these schools. In addition, he said that | |Shamil Basayev (informal head of|an exhibition of young painters would be held late April in | |all Chechen separatists who |the garden of the Nuradilov Drama Theatre in Grozny. | |fight with arms in hands against|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |the federal forces)," Ramzan |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Kadyrov said. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |23 Mart 2004 Most militants unaware of positive changes in | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |Chechnya - Magomed Khambiyev | |more...) |A large part of militants who continue fighting against | | |federal forces are unaware of real positive changes taking | |Large terrorist attack prevented|place in Chechnya, Magomed Khambiyev, the ex-defence minister | |in Ingushetia |of self-proclaimed Ichkeria, told Tass. We must talk openly | | |about what happens in the republic. I could grasp very little | |A large terrorist attack has |of what was happening here while I was hiding in forests. They| |been prevented in Ingushetia (a |are in the same situation now. Our task is to convince them, | |republic in the North Caucasus |and I think they will give up confrontation. Together with the| |bordering on Chechnya), a source|authorities we will put things at home in order, Khambiyev | |at the Ingushetian Interior |said. He said once again that the decision to stop the armed | |Ministry told RIA Novosti. "An |struggle was his personal decision, taken of free will. It is | |explosive device was found in |rumoured now that I made this decision under pressure. This is| |the town of Karabulak, 25 meters|just not true. I repeat again that any activity without the | |away from the entrance to a base|support of people and friends is pointless. I have come to | |of a police special task force. |realise that I will be of more use to my motherland here. I | |The device was hidden in the |become ever more confident with every day that my decision was| |grass and consisted of a |right, Khambiyev said. | |cardboard box filled with a |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |mixture of ammonium nitrate, |(more News from Chechnya...) | |aluminum powder, two electric | | |detonators and destructive |22 April 2004 V.Yakovlev down on Chechen bosses | |elements," the source said. |The Chechen republican government held session on April 21 to | |According to the source, the |analyse implementing a federal target programme of Chechnya's | |explosive device, which had the |economic and social rehabilitation. Vladimir Yakovlev, | |equivalent power of three |presidential envoy plenipotentiary to federal district South, | |kilograms of TNT, was |attended the event. The republic is making only token | |deactivated. ([http:// |progress, said President Vladimir Putin's envoy as he came | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |down on the republican top. "Team irresponsibility is all we | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |have now instead of proper personal responsibility." | | |Unemployment is raging-360,000, or 58 percent of the | | Chechen history |republic's ablebodied population, are out of job. The federal | | |top is to know just when republican rulers expect to settle | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|the problem. There must be publicity in a ticklish matter-what| | |federal allocations are spent on, he added. Republican Prime | |To Reader |Minister Sergei Abramov and Hussein Isayev, republican State | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Council president, hit back by criticising the federal | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||programme. They don't think it takes stock of Chechnya's | |traditions| music |actual problems. Thus, not a single manufacturing company has | | |risen from the ruins to this day. The republican top | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |prosecutor must delve into every instance, Mr. Yakovlev said | |, a Russian territory which has |to that. No one will leave Chechens alone to tackle their | |witnessed the most tragic events|problems, he reassured. Vladimir Yakovlev appointed his | |over the past decade. The book |nearest conference on the republican top for May. | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information | Russia - Chechnya | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | Chechen traditions | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |Modern customs and traditions - Hospitality | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |[229] | |Russia , that pro-Russian |A legend says that the ancestor of all Chechens - Nokhchuo - | |elements in the republic are |was born with a piece of iron in one hand and a piece of | |marginalised; and lastly, that |cheese in the other. "Grace seldom rests on places | |Russian power structures are |unfrequented by guests," "a guest brings joy,""the longer the | |fighting the Chechen people, |guest's way to your house, the more respect you owe him..." | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Many sayings, legends and fables focus on the sacred law of | |The reality, however, is that |hospitality. The villagers are most hospitable. Every | |only with the return of the |coutryside family has a special guest room that is always kept| |legitimate authorities are |clean, with clean bed linen, in a word, ready for a visitor. | |villages and towns being |No one makes use of this room. Even the children are forbidden| |restored, children going to |to play or do anything else in this room. Every family must be| |school for the first time in |ever ready to serve the guest a meal. Chechens used to set | |many years, and pensioners |aside a special stock of food supplies for this purpose. No | |receiving long-forgotten |questions are to be asked of a guest in the first three days | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |of his visit... He is considered a privileged member of the | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |family. In the olden day, the daughter or daughter-in-law of | |referendum on a new Chechen |the head of the family would even help him to take off his | |constitution, and parliamentary |shoes and overcoat. The guest enjoys the warmest reception at | |and presidential elections. |meal times. A Chechen must risk his own life to protect the | |These votes will be held, |life, honor and property of his guest. This is one of the | |despite continued attempts by |basic rules of Chechen hospitality. The Chechen code of | |bandit groups and their leaders |conduct says guests should offer no payment to the family they| |to scupper the process of |stayed with. A guest may only make a present to the children | |normalisation in the republic, |of that family. The ancient rules of hospitality were obeyed | |the latest terrorist act being |regardless of circumstances. Any good man, regardless of his | |the bombing of the republican |ethnic roots, merited a warm reception. There is a direct | |government building. The war |connection between hospitality and greetings. To greet | |being waged by Chechen |someone, Chechens open up their arms, that is bare their heart| |separatists against federal |for us to see that they neither hide mean intentions nor plan | |forces and more often than not |any evil. | |against their own co-citizens is|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=traditionseng& | |by no means a "national |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode | Chechen tarditions | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |fundamental principles of modern|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |civilisation. The facts show |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |identity, the free use of its |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |own language, and preaching |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |during de facto "independence" |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |from Russia that the Chechen |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |people suffered a humanitarian |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |tragedy on an unprecedented |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |trade and plundering came to |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |form the economic basis of the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |new regime, while chaos and war |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |became the form of its political|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |existence. We want to emphasise |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |once more: Chechnya is part of |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | Chechen cuisine | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Islamism on its territory would |traditions| music | |be anti-historical. Such a |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |development would signify the |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |establishment in the midst of |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |with all ensuing consequences |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |for the international community.|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |The corporate author - |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |journalists of the Russian |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Information Agency Novosti - |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |have attempted to be as brief as|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |possible on providing answers to|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |the most-often aked questions |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |(above all posed by a foreign |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |audience) about the Chechen |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Chechnya : Questions and |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Answers". It draws heavily on |their own. | |information provided by various |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Russian ministries and |eng] in detail ...) | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | - | |normalising life in the | | |republic. |## | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |Grozny's waterworks are rebuit | | | | | |[4253] Quality potable water is | | |what life depends on. The World | | |Health Organization says, | | |however, that about 2 billion | | |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