The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 186 | | | 29.04.04 | |Court session in Qatar breaks | | |till May 2 |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The court hearings of the |29 April 2004 Gas will be supplied to foothills and mountain | |Russians' case in Qatar has |villages in Chechnya | |broken for an interval till May |Rostov region court sentenced Doku Dzhantemirov, 27, to life | |2, said Ilya Levitov, spokesman |imprisonment for his involvement in the attack on a helicopter| |for the lawyers' bureau Yegorov,|in Chechnya, in which 127 servicemen died. The court found | |Puginsky, Afanasyev and |Dzhantemirov guilty of planning and carrying out an act of | |Partners. Lawyers of this bureau|terror. He was among the group of militants who used a | |represent the interests of the |shoulder-fired anti-aircraft system near Khankala in August, | |Russians at the hearings in |2002. It was the worst tragedy in the history of Russian | |Qatar. The court sessions, which|transport aviation. The court recognized the investigators' | |lasted from Monday to Wednesday,|version that Dzhantemirov brought the Igla portable | |heard the 13 witnesses for the |anti-aircraft system in a car to the building from which it | |prosecution. They were |was fired. He also took footage of the helicopter crash. | |interrogated by both the |Dzhantemirov gave confessional evidence in the course of | |Russians' lawyers headed by a |preliminary investigation, but began to deny his guilt at the | |Qatar lawyer and prosecutors. |trial. | |Three Russian citizens who were |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |on a business trip in Qatar were|(more News from Chechnya...) | |arrested early on February 19 by| | |Qatari special services. They |29 Mart 2004 CE to continue cooperation with Russia over | |are accused of involvement in |Chechnya | |the murder of a Chechen |The Council of Europe will continue cooperation with Russia | |separatist leader Zelimkhan |over Chechnya, Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer said. | |Yandarbieyv, whose car was blown|Schwimmer told journalists as part of the PACE spring session | |up in Doha on February 13. One |that both sides will cooperate in such areas as human rights | |of the detainees, first |and strengthening the rule-of-law state in Chechnya. The | |secretary of the Russian embassy|Council of Europe maintains close contacts with Russian | |in Qatar Alexander Fetisov was |authorities over Chechnya, Schwimmer said, adding that CE | |later released and returned home|human rights experts are working in Chechnya on a permanent | |on March 24. The Russian foreign|basis. State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee chairman | |ministry has repeatedly denied |Konstantin Kosachev told Itar-Tass that Russia is ready to | |the charges, and insisted that |discuss the Chechen problem with the PACE. We are ready to | |they be released. On February |contribute to a PACE delegations trip to Chechnya to study the| |26, the two Russians were |situation on the spot. CE experts could make sure that the | |officially accused of |situation in Chechnya where the referendum on the constitution| |premeditated murder. At the |and presidential elections were held is changing to its best. | |preliminary court session on |If the PACE Bureau decides to include the situation in | |April 11, the Russians pleaded |Chechnya in the agenda of summer session stated for June, the | |not guilty. |Russian delegation is prepared to discuss it, Kosachev said. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |(more News from Chechnya...) | |more...) | | | |29 April 2004 Trade unions expect over a million people to | |Georgia to oust Chechen crime: |march on May Day | |President |More than one million Russians will turn out on May Day to | | |take part in marches and rallies across the country to demand | |No big-time Chechen criminals |decent pay as a sure way to eradicate poverty. Chairman of the| |are in Georgia now, and the |Federation of independent trade unions of Russia Mikhail | |country is determined to oust |Shmakov told a press conference that between five thousand and| |paramilitaries down to the last |10 thousand people would respond to the call of the trade | |man, President Mikhail |unions to turn out in each regional center. More people - up | |Saakashvili said in a Novosti |to 23 thousand - are expected to take part in May Day marches | |interview. A Georgian-Russian |in Moscow, said he. Ingushetia and Chechnya will only hold | |agreement signed last week |meetings of trade union activists because of instability in | |envisages the Chechen frontier |those regions. The marchers and participants in the rallies | |stretch jointly patrolled. The |will demand higher pay for their work. Other demands will be | |arrangement is to start |for a rise in the minimum wage to the subsistence level and | |urgently, with spring thaw on in|the payment of the wage arrears, Shmakov said. According to | |the Caucasian highlands to open |him, The wage paid in all sectors of the economy is not in | |easy crossing. It is essential |line with the work done. And although the minimal wage | |for Georgia to prevent Chechen |increased from 83 roubles to 600 roubles a month, it still | |rebels penetrating it, and block|amounts to no more than 25 percent of the consumer baskets | |their way back to Russia, if any|worth, Shmakov noted. The money income of one in every five | |remain in Georgia to this day. |Russian workers, or 31.2 million people, is below the | |Georgia is anxious to rid of |subsistence level of 2,143 roubles a month, the trade union | |Chechen paramilitaries, and |leader said. Since the beginning of this year, the wage | |willing to cooperate with |arrearage has increased by four billion roubles to 28 billion.| |Russia. Meanwhile, this alliance|More than five million workers do not get their pay on time, | |with Russian law-enforcement |said Shmakov. The trade unions are extremely wary of the | |agencies is fairly smooth in |government initiative to switch to cash in the payment of all | |tracking rebels down and |kinds of social benefits. There is no confidence that the | |extraditing them to Russia. The |compensation in cash will be adequate, Shmakov said. | |President had called Moscow on | | |repeated occasions to specify | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |paramilitaries' names and | | |supposed whereabouts in Georgia.| Russia - Chechnya | |Russia is free to send secret | | |service officers to Georgia for | Chechen culture | |detection-a proposal it has been| | |ignoring to this day. President |Traditional Folk Arts | |Saakashvili rules out use of |Chechen home and utensils | |force in Adzharia, recalcitrant | | |autonomy within Georgia. |[49] | |Tbilisi's policies are finding |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |every support with the Adzhar |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |public. "The local leader |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | |[republican President Aslan |making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |Abashidze] has no backing from |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |the population. He does not like|bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| |the situation. Why, that's his |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |own problem." The Adzhar issue |neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | |will be settled promptly and |pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | |peacefully, reassured President |Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| |Saakashvili. He is in Warsaw for|they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |European economic summitry of |could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| |April 28-30. ([http:// |of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | | |Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| | Chechen history |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | | |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | | |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |To Reader |Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |traditions| music |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| | |looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |, a Russian territory which has |tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |witnessed the most tragic events|artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |over the past decade. The book |brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |is the latest update on the |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | |Chechen Republic . And this is |mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | |very important, since a lack of |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | |fresh and accurate information |blue fringework. | |about events in Chechnya |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |generates many distorted |ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For | Chechen tarditions | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |elements in the republic are |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |marginalised; and lastly, that | | |Russian power structures are |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |fighting the Chechen people, |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |rather than armed bandit groups.|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |The reality, however, is that |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |only with the return of the |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |legitimate authorities are |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |villages and towns being |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |restored, children going to |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |school for the first time in |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |many years, and pensioners |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |receiving long-forgotten |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |referendum on a new Chechen |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |constitution, and parliamentary |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |and presidential elections. |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by | Chechen cuisine | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |normalisation in the republic, |traditions| music | |the latest terrorist act being |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |the bombing of the republican |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |government building. The war |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |being waged by Chechen |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |separatists against federal |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |forces and more often than not |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |against their own co-citizens is|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |by no means a "national |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |liberation struggle of the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Chechen people", but an episode |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |in the overall offensive by |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |international terrorism on the |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |fundamental principles of modern|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |civilisation. The facts show |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |that being a part of the Russian|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Federation in no way threatens |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|their own. | |identity, the free use of its |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |own language, and preaching |eng] in detail ...) | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | - | |from Russia that the Chechen | | |people suffered a humanitarian |## | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |trade and plundering came to | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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, | | |politically and | | |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