The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 187 | | | 05.05.04 | |Police investigate assault on | | |checkpoint of Chechen |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |president's security service | | | |[3643] 05 May 2004 Gas will be supplied to foothills and | |The Chechen police have found |mountain villages in Chechnya | |the car stolen during the attack|Recently in Tyumen the one eighth final of the competition of | |on the checkpoint of the Chechen|the club of the happy and witty was held and on the last day | |president's security service, |the Chechen trail faced the Yekaterinburg team, the Lipetsk | |the Chechen Interior Ministry |team, the Moscow finance-law academy team, the Bonchester | |reported. According to the |United from St. Petersburg and a team from Nizhny Tagil. The | |ministry, the Zhiguli was found |Chechen boys received a warm welcome in Tyumen and a conducive| |between settlements Alleroi and |atmosphere was created for them to prepare well for the | |Gansolchu in the republic's |competition. The team did very well and has qualified for the | |eastern district neighboring on |quarter final with the second best result behind the | |Dagestan. It contained a |Yekaterinburg team. Other team members and members of the jury| |Kalashnikov and 100 7.62-mm |congratulated the Chechen team for an excellent performance. | |rounds. "Nearby the police have |There were many supporters of the Chechen trail team in the | |found bodies of five camouflaged|hall and their noisy cheering caught the attention of the | |men with gunshot wounds. They |chairman of the panel of judges- the director of the senior | |are being identified," the |league of KVN, Mikhail Marfin. On returning home to Chechnya, | |ministry's representative said. |members of the team were met by the Chechen president, Akhmad | |On May 1st unknown individuals |Kadyrov, who congratulated them on their success presenting | |attacked a checkpoint guarded by|each member ten thousand rubles and promising to help solve | |the servicemen of President |all their problems. The quarter final match of the first | |Akhmad Kadyrov's security |league will take place also in Tyumen either at the end of May| |service, he recalled. "The fire |or the start of June. The Chechen team has already started | |took place on Saturday in the |preparing a new programme. | |Kurchaloevsky district near |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Alleroi," the source said. |(more News from Chechnya...) | |"Policeman Magomadov was wounded| | |in the fire. The retaliatory |[3863] 04 May 2004 Ekospac helps Chechnya to restore ecology | |fire killed one of the |Life in Chechnya is gradually returning to normal. But there | |attackers, named Iskhanov, we |are several problems that have inherited from the years of | |are now checking all information|war. Among them is the cleaning of the territory from oil | |about him," he said. The police |overflows. Emergency Situation Ministrys team of professional | |found a Kalashnikov on the scene|rescuers helps to solve this problem. The team was set up to | |of the incident. Meanwhile two |eliminate the consequences of technological disasters. At the | |caches with mortar mines have |request of the Rosneft Company one of its 20 regional branches| |been destroyed in Chechnya in |is persistently working in Chechnya. This regional team helps | |the last 24 hours. On 4 May, |the companys branch in Chechnya, Grozneftegaz, to clean | |checking the information |polluted soil. In fact the polluted area is very large. Last | |received from local residents, |year Ekospac cleaned 80 hectares and this year it plans to | |the police found a cache at the |clean all facilities of the Groznyneftegaz and utilize soil | |entrance to the village of |taken to special sites. It is now discussing with the Chechen | |Mesker Yurt, the Shali district,|government on re-cultivation of the territory belong to | |the regional headquarters for |Groznyneftegaz and other oil companies in the republic. The | |supervising the North Caucasus |Chechen branch of the Ekospac hands over the area, which is | |anti-terrorism operation |cleaned to a special commission. Chechnya plans to organize a | |reported. "The cache contained |department to monitor the oil pipelines to prevent oil from | |six MON-90 mines. They were |spilling when the entire territory is cleaned. Only local | |taken out in the field and |residents work at the Chechen centre of Ekospac. There are | |destroyed in compliance with all|sufficient qualified people. Now they get new jobs. The | |necessary security measures," |regional branch also has equipment capable of solving basic | |the headquarters' spokesman |tasks. But the head office plans to send advanced machinery | |said. Besides, mortar mines were|and equipment to the Chechen centre. The work is aimed at | |found during investigative work |cleaning the areas, which were polluted during the stealing of| |in the mountainous and forest |oil as soon as possible. The staff of the centre is engaged | |terrain near the village of |only in cleaning work. The rest is handled by the law | |Dargo, the Vedensky district. |enforcement agencies. Some times the workers have to return to| |They were laying in a mountain |the one and the same oil well more than once. The situation | |split covered by tree branches. |has lately improved since Grozneftegaz Company has stepped up | |The cache contained 11 82-mm |its fight against stealing of oil. The ecological situation is| |mines, the headquarters |improving as a whole. There is a need to take urgent measures | |reported. They were destroyed. |to solve problems linked with warehouses of chlorine, which | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |were belonged to former factories. The Chechen government is | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |seriously engaged in improving the ecological situation in the| |more...) |republic and does its best to help Ekospac. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |Federal troops kill eight gunmen|(more News from Chechnya...) | |in Chechnya | | | |[3027] 03 May 2004 Argun is getting ready to celebrate VE-Day| |Units of federal troops |Culturally rich is the life of Argun on the eve of VE-Day. | |operating in Chechnya have |Argun cultural workers did well in the Chechen-wide festival | |killed eight rebels in two armed|that marked VE-Day. The Argun children's art school could not | |clashes since April 29. One of |do better, either: its students sang, danced, played the piano| |the clashes took place near the |and the guitar for the most appreciative audiences. Contests, | |village of Dyshne-Vedeno, a |festivals, other events that mark VE-Day are held at all | |source at the Joint Military |schools and libraries of Argun. Unfortunately, - the head of | |Grouping in the North Caucasus |Argun's department of culture Zara Minazayeva says, the local | |told Tass on April 30. During |Palace of culture and the local rest and recreation park stand| |the clash, the federals killed |badly damaged. The Palace used to be one of the biggest in the| |six extremists and took two |northern Caucasus: two halls with 860 seats, a revolving | |others prisoner. Two servicemen |stage...No other palace of culture, except that of Krasnodar, | |were killed and two others, |looked as good as it did. Many promises have been made to | |wounded in the action. An OMON |earmark federal money for the reconstruction of the Argun | |crack police group from Russias |palace of culture, but all of them have, so far, remained on | |Kirov Region was attacked by |paper. The people of Argun hope that federal money will be | |armed militants near the village|earmarked next year. Pending this, they are trying to do what | |of Chiri-Yurt. Two gunmen were |they can in a bid to spruce up their palace of culture. The | |killed in the attack and two |rest and recreation park is what Argun focused on in the | |others detained. Two policemen |course of its keep-clean campaign. Although lack of federal | |were wounded. ([http:// |allocations makes it impossible to make it as beautiful as it | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |used to be, the people of Argun are trying to plant new trees | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |and make it look presentable on VE-Day when sports and | | |cultural events will be held on its lawns. Zara Minazayeva | | Chechen history |believes that life goes on and is getting to be better. The | | |more reason for the joyful congratulation of Argun's seventeen| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|war vets. | | | | |To Reader | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| Russia - Chechnya | |traditions| music | | | | Chechen culture | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya | | |, a Russian territory which has |Traditional Folk Arts | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechen home and utensils | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the |[49] | |Chechen Republic . And this is |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |very important, since a lack of |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |fresh and accurate information |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | |about events in Chechnya |making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |generates many distorted |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |conceptions and rumours - both |bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| |within and outside Russia . For |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |example, that Chechen society is|neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | |allegedly inherently alien to |pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| |elements in the republic are |they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |marginalised; and lastly, that |could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| |Russian power structures are |of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |fighting the Chechen people, |Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |rather than armed bandit groups.|hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | |The reality, however, is that |Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| |only with the return of the |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | |legitimate authorities are |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |villages and towns being |to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | |restored, children going to |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |school for the first time in |Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |many years, and pensioners |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |receiving long-forgotten |survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |referendum on a new Chechen |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |constitution, and parliamentary |tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |and presidential elections. |artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |These votes will be held, |brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |despite continued attempts by |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | |bandit groups and their leaders |mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | |to scupper the process of |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | |normalisation in the republic, |blue fringework. | |the latest terrorist act being |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |the bombing of the republican |ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | Chechen tarditions | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |against their own co-citizens is|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |by no means a "national |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |in the overall offensive by |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |international terrorism on the |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |fundamental principles of modern|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |civilisation. The facts show |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |that being a part of the Russian|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Federation in no way threatens |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |identity, the free use of its |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |own language, and preaching |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |during de facto "independence" |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |from Russia that the Chechen |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |people suffered a humanitarian |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |tragedy on an unprecedented |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the | Chechen cuisine | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |became the form of its political|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |existence. We want to emphasise |traditions| music | |once more: Chechnya is part of |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russia , geographically, |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |politically and |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |civilisation-wise. So a |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |hypothetical triumph of radical |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Islamism on its territory would |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |be anti-historical. Such a |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |development would signify the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |establishment in the midst of |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |with all ensuing consequences |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |for the international community.|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |The corporate author - |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |journalists of the Russian |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Information Agency Novosti - |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |have attempted to be as brief as|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |possible on providing answers to|their own. | |the most-often aked questions |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |(above all posed by a foreign |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |departments that in one or | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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