The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 185 | | | 26.04.04 | |Police seize rebel ammunition in| | |Chechen capital, woodlands |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Police have seized 1,000 |[4355] 26 April 2004 Gas will be supplied to foothills and | |projectiles for a VOG-17 grenade|mountain villages in Chechnya | |launcher in the |Gas is being supplied to all mountain regions in Chechnya and | |Staropromyslovsky district of |among them is Urus-Martan. Gas is being given to the village | |Grozny, the capital of Chechnya,|of Alhazurovo in the region and the connection of local | |a source at the Russian Interior|residents houses to the gas pipeline is in progress. In the | |Ministrys temporary press center|next 2 to 3 months, natural gas will be burning in the houses | |in the North Caucasus told Tass.|of Alhazurovo villagers. Another mountain village- also in the| |The cache with ammunition was |region- Shalazhi, is equally being supplied with gas and work | |hidden from view in a |is ending on the design of gas delivery system to the | |semi-destroyed basement of a |foothills village of Martan-Chu. The laying of gas pipeline to| |dwelling house. Police are |populated areas in Urus-Martan is included in the plan of the | |currently looking for people |gasmen. According to the director of the Urus-Martan branch of| |having links to the cache. The |the state unified enterprise-Chechengas Apta Avtayev, the | |same source said another, better|gasmen team is good and friendly and they all work honestly. | |equipped cache was found during |Many of them are veterans of labour haven worked for ten and | |a police raid in a woodland |some for even thirty years and hence thanks to their | |where two assault rifles, two |professionalism residents of Urus-Martan will not be left | |pistols, a landmine, three |without gas. | |hollow-charge projectiles, six |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |projectiles for a grenade |(more News from Chechnya...) | |launcher and 2,600 cartridges | | |had been hidden. The owner of |26 Mart 2004 Qatari court continues to hear Yandarbiyev | |the weapons, bandit group |murder case | |commander Khalidov had been |A Qatari court will continue to hear the case of two Russian | |killed by federals in 2003, the |citizens charged with the murder of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a | |press center source said. The |Chechen separatist leader on April 26. Cross-examination of | |base of a bandit group led by |prosecution witnesses began on April 25 , the press service of| |Denilbek Alkhazurov, 28, was |the law firm that is representing the Russians along with | |found in the woodland near the |local lawyers, Yegorov, Pugachinsky, Afanasyev and Partners, | |Kurdyukovskaya village, |told RIA Novosti. According to Ilya Levitov, the law firm's | |Shelkovskoi district, a source |press secretary, the session will continue on April 26. A | |at the headquarters of the |civil court in Qatar is hearing the Russian citizens' case. | |federal forces in the region |"At the moment the conditions of the Russian citizens are | |told Tass correspondent Yuri |normal," Mr. Levitov said. At the request of the defence the | |Safronov in Grozny. Russian |court hearings on Sunday were held in a closed session with | |border guards uncovered a cache |members of Mr. Yandarbiyev's family and representatives of | |containing 20 hand grenades, a |Russia's Embassy in Qatar present. Dmitri Afanasyev (a partner| |large amount of fuses and |at Yegorov, Pugachinsky, Afanasyev and Partners) told the | |cartridges for small arms near |Vesti Nedeli (a news program on the Rossia television channel)| |the village Ushkaloi in the |on Sunday: "we received about 1,000 pages of hand-written text| |republics Itum-Kale district, |in Arabic on approximately April 13. The translation took a | |head of the press service of the|certain amount of time and the defense received the materials | |Stavropol-based North Caucasus |in Russian literally 4-5 days ago. Despite this, we | |Border Troops Headquarters |familiarized ourselves with these material and, in my opinion,| |Sergey Livantsov told Tass |they do not contain any proof of our defendants' complicity in| |correspondent Nikolai Styazhkin |the crime they are charged with." "According to our | |in Stavropol. According to |defendants' testimony which has already been read in the | |Sergey Livantsov, the seized |Qatari court, they were beaten, deprived of sleep, and in some| |weapons have been handed over to|cases special dogs were set on them," the lawyer said. "Under | |the Itum-Kale police station. |Qatari law and in accordance with the New York anti-torture | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |convention of 1984, confessions received through torture | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |cannot be used as evidence." Mr. Yandarbiyev, a Chechen | |more...) |separatist leader who lived in Qatar for the past three years,| | |died on February 13, when a bomb exploded in his Toyota | |Yastrzhembsky to clarify |Landcruiser. On the night of February 18 in Doha, the Qatari | |Chechnya related policy to EU |secret services arrested three Russian citizens who were in | | |Qatar on a business trip. They were accused of being involved | |Presidential aide for ties with |in Mr. Yandarbiyev's assassination. One of the detainees, | |the EU Sergei Yastrzhembsky |First Secretary of the Russian Federation's Embassy in Qatar | |intends to clarify Russia's |Aleksandr Fetisov who had diplomatic immunity, was released | |policy on Chechnya during his |and returned to Russia on March 24. On February 26, official | |work with European partners, |charges of premeditated murder were brought against two | |Sergei Yastrzhembsky said in a |Russian citizens. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei | |RIA Novosti interview. "I'm |Lavrov stated that everything necessary was being done to free| |ready to allay concerns of our |the Russian citizens in Qatar. Russia will continue making | |European colleagues over the |efforts to bring the Russian diplomats, detained in Qatar, | |situation in the republic and |back to their homeland, Aleskandr Yakovenko, a spokesman for | |arrange trips there for European|Russia's Foreign Ministry, stated. | |commissioners if need be," said |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |the presidential aide. "There |(more News from Chechnya...) | |are problems in Chechnya, | | |including with human rights," |[3036]--> 25 April 2004 Naur Forest Farm | |Mr. Yastrzhembsky acknowledged. |Naur forest farm was founded in 1922. It is one of the oldest | |"But the situation is changing |farms in Chechnya. Despite many problems the staff of the farm| |for the better day by day." "If |keeps it in good condition. Oak, acacia, poplar, aspen, pear, | |we compare Chechnya today and |walnut and alder grow on the 11 425-hectare territory in the | |three years ago, these are |Naur and Nadterechny districts. The staff of the farm consists| |completely different |of 48 regular and 28 casual workers. They carry out sanitary | |situations," said the |felling in 200 hectares and prepare 2800 cubic meters of wood,| |presidential aide. The fact that|plant young trees in 30 hectares and monitor natural renewal | |people are voluntarily returning|in 400 hectares a year. They protect the trees from illegal | |to Chechnya testifies to the |felling and pest. The wood is used for heating schools, | |considerable progress in the |hospitals and administrative buildings in the two districts. | |republic, he noted. "Three years|The forest farm supplies state farms with acacia stakes for | |ago, 500,000 people lived in |vineyards. The farm has two tractors and two cars though it | |Chechnya. Today the population |needs four tractors and six cars. But its director Vakha | |of the republic has exceeded one|Tsuntsaev has big plans. The farm plans to conclude an | |million. The 500,000 people |agreement with the Forest Ministry to carry out work to | |could not have been forced to |strengthen sand in an area of 600 hectares and increase the | |come back," said Mr. |territory where young trees are planted to 50 hectares, the | |Yastrzhembsky. "People who had |sanitary felling to 250 hectares and the volume of wood to | |left for Moscow and other cities|3000 cubic meters. The director is proud of the farm's nursery| |are now returning home." "Of |where ash and red cedar trees grow. The farm plans to grow | |course, people have many |pine, spruce and larch. This will make it possible for people | |difficulties there but life has |to get plants to decorate their villages, streets, and | |become far better than in 2000,"|gardens. | |he added. The presidential aide | | |also noted that over 3,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |businessmen are working in | | |Chechnya at the moment, and in | Russia - Chechnya | |2000 there were only 300 of | | |them. According to Mr. | Chechen culture | |Yastrzhembsky, 30,000-40,000 | | |refugees are now living outside |Traditional Folk Arts | |Chechnya. But most of them are |Chechen home and utensils | |living in the private sector of | | |Ingushetia. No more than 2,000 |[49] | |people are accommodated in |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |camps. "Nobody is forcing them |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |to go back. They are provided |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | |with explanations and conditions|making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |for the return," said Mr. |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |Yastrzhembsky. ([http:// |bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | | |pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | | Chechen history |Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| | |they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| | |of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |To Reader |Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| |traditions| music |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | | |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | |, a Russian territory which has |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |over the past decade. The book |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |is the latest update on the |survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |Chechen Republic . And this is |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| |very important, since a lack of |looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |fresh and accurate information |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |about events in Chechnya |tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |generates many distorted |artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |conceptions and rumours - both |brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |within and outside Russia . For |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | |example, that Chechen society is|mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | |allegedly inherently alien to |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | |Russia , that pro-Russian |blue fringework. | |elements in the republic are |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |marginalised; and lastly, that |ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |Russian power structures are | | |fighting the Chechen people, | Chechen tarditions | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |only with the return of the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |legitimate authorities are |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |school for the first time in |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |many years, and pensioners |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |receiving long-forgotten |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |referendum on a new Chechen |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |constitution, and parliamentary |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |and presidential elections. |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |These votes will be held, |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |despite continued attempts by |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |bandit groups and their leaders |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |to scupper the process of |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |normalisation in the republic, |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |the latest terrorist act being |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |the bombing of the republican |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen cuisine | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |against their own co-citizens is|traditions| music | |by no means a "national |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |liberation struggle of the |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Chechen people", but an episode |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |in the overall offensive by |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |international terrorism on the |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |fundamental principles of modern|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |civilisation. The facts show |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |that being a part of the Russian|written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Federation in no way threatens |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |identity, the free use of its |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |own language, and preaching |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |during de facto "independence" |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |from Russia that the Chechen |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |people suffered a humanitarian |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |tragedy on an unprecedented |their own. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |trade and plundering came to |eng] in detail ...) | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war | - | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise |## | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |politically and | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical | | |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 | | |for the international community.| | |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 | | | | | |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