+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 188 | | | 11.05.04 | |Solana forwards a message to | | |Putin in connection with |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |terrorist act in Grozny | | | |[923] 11 May 2004 Shelkovskoi district beefing up its phone | |EU High Representative for the |system | |Common Foreign and Security |Chechnyas Shelkovsky district is busily beefing up its | |Policy Javier Solana has |telephone communications network. It hasnt been long since the| |condemned terrorist act in |districts sole phone was to be found only in the office of the| |Grozny and forwarded a message |head of the local administration, no less. The local | |to President of Russia Vladimir |administrations had no phones at all and only had them | |Putin with words of support. I |installed during elections. No longer. New equipment has been | |condemn the terrorist act |brought in with Alexander Gritsakov, who heads the districts | |committed in Grozny as a result |industry, transport and communications department, saying that| |of which President Kadyrov was |they have an international team of Chechens, Russians, | |killed. I sent a message of |Nogaitsy and Kumans working together to give the district | |condolences and empathy to |maximum access to republican and nationwide telephone grids. | |President Putin, - says Solana's|There are telephones already available at many local | |statement received by RIA |organizations, offices and enterprises and in all of the | |Novosti. He also expressed |districts 19 village administrations. As soon as we have | |commiseration with the families |phones at all of our organizations, well start hooking up | |and close relations of those |private households in the district center as well Alexander | |killed as a result of the |hopes this will happen already this year. Private citizens | |terrorist act. |will be shelling out 5,000 rubles to have phones installed in | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |their homes and the monthly payments will depend on the | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |duration and range of their phone conversations. Meaning that | |more...) |people living in the district center who have relatives or | | |friends elsewhere in Chechnya and Russia will no longer have | |Putin: Tragedy in Grozny must |to go to their local phone center to have a talk with their | |not affect the work currently |near and dear. The ongoing process of phone installation in | |under way in the republic |the private sector is a mutually rewarding process, Alexander | | |Gritsakov says, because the monthly pay will give us the money| |The tragedy in Grozny must not |we need to expand our work and speed up our district-wide | |affect the work currently under |phone installation process. | |way in the republic, Russian |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |President Vladimir Putin pointed|(more News from Chechnya...) | |out as he spoke to the Chechen | | |Prime Minister, Sergei Abramov. |11 May 2004 Chechnya buried of slain president | |The important thing is to |A three-day mourning and burial service began on May 10 in | |prevent this terrorist act from |Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya for murdered | |adversely affecting the life of |president Akhmat Kadyrov, who died in a bomb attackon May 9. | |the Chechen public and from |Thousands of people assembled at Kadyrov's home village of | |disrupting the Chechen |Tsenturoi, 50 kilometres southeast of the regional capital | |government's work toward |Grozny, to pay tribute to the man who led Chechnya with | |restoring the republic's |Moscow's backing since 2000. Kadyrov, 52, and five other | |economy, Putin pointed out. He |people died when a powerful bomb blast ripped through VIP | |recalled that in accordance with|seating at Grozny stadium during a parade to mark the end of | |Article 76 of the Chechen |World War II in 1945. Fifty-seven people were injured, | |Constitution, PM Abramov would |according to latest official casualty figures. The commander | |be acting as President till the |of the Russian troops in Chechnya, Colonel-General Valery | |next election. "I am asking you |Baranov, had regained consciousness after losing a foot in the| |to organize work in a proper |explosion, a senior Kremlin official said in Grozny. Russian | |way," Putin said to Abramov, |President Vladimir Putin has vowed retribution for the murder | |noting that all republican |of Kadyrov, who was his chief ally in the fight against | |bodies of power were up and |Islamic separatists in the republic. | |running already. He also asked |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |the Acting President of Chechnya|(more News from Chechnya...) | |to maintain close cooperation | | |with law-enforcement and |[2634] 10 May 2004 School news | |security agencies. Abramov |Chechen educational system is becoming an integral part of the| |responded by assuring that he |whole Russian system as evidenced by news from Chechen | |would do his best to keep the |schools. In the beginning of April the Chechen education | |republic going despite the May 9|ministry received a letter from Moscow in which it was said | |terrorist act. President of |that the finalist in the "Teacher of the year in Russia | |Chechnya Ahmad Kadyrov was |competition in 2003", headmaster of Shovxal-Berlinsky middle | |unable to complete the |school in Nozhai-Yutsky region, history teacher Ruslan | |reconstruction work he had |Djabrailov, has been honoured with the Russian president's | |launched, Abramov said. "But let|Award. Ruslan Naipovich's compatriots were proud that the | |me assure you that the |president's Award was given not just to a good teacher but to | |republic's population will, with|a person genuinely devoted to children, who even during the | |my ministers' help as well as my|most difficult period in his republic refused to change | |own, bring their plans to a |profession. Buoyed by the debut success in the competition for| |logical completion." An |the title of Teacher of the year in Russia-2003, this year | |explosion in Grozny's Dynamo |another Chechen school decided to try its strength in other | |stadium this morning killed |all-Russian competitions and again was successful The good | |Chechen President Ahmad Kadyrov |news came on April 21 that the Oisxarsky middle school N. 2 in| |and three other people who were |the Gudermes region has reached the final of the competition | |attending a ceremony to mark V-E|for the best school in Russia in the category of | |Day. ([http:// |"School-social cultural center of the village". The success is| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |well deserving, for in the tiny village of Chechen oilmen the | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |school has always being playing the role of the cultural | | |heartthrob. Back in the Soviet period it was the first to set | | Chechen history |up a computer class and it is keeping the good old traditions.| | |Pupils of the school continue to excel in republican school | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Olympiads as well as in children's creative competitions. | | |Ahead is another important examination- "Teacher of the year | |To Reader |in Russia competition for 2004" in which Chechnya will be | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |represented by Leila Musayeva, physics teacher in middle | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||school N 5 in Gudermes. Her selection became known on April 16| |traditions| music |after the announcement of the results of the 2nd republican | | |competition for the title of teacher of the year. Leila's | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |wards are confident in the victory of their beloved mentor in | |, a Russian territory which has |the all-Russian competition the more so that the entire | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechnya will join the pupils in praying and supporting her. | |over the past decade. The book |On May 20 a scientific-applied conference-"Upgrading the | |is the latest update on the |system of education as a factor of social development in | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Chechnya" will begin. On April 7 sectional meetings took place| |very important, since a lack of |at which reports to be delivered at the conference were | |fresh and accurate information |preliminarily discussed. A similar conference has not been | |about events in Chechnya |held in Chechnya for a long time and hence good preparations | |generates many distorted |for it are being made. Invitations have gone out to Moscow and| |conceptions and rumours - both |all the regions in Southern Russia and judging by the list of | |within and outside Russia . For |participants, the May conference of the Chechen teacher forum | |example, that Chechen society is|promises to become an important event in Russia. | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |elements in the republic are | | |marginalised; and lastly, that | Russia - Chechnya | |Russian power structures are | | |fighting the Chechen people, | Chechen culture | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that |Traditional Folk Arts | |only with the return of the |Chechen home and utensils | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being |[49] | |restored, children going to |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |school for the first time in |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |many years, and pensioners |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | |receiving long-forgotten |making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| |referendum on a new Chechen |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |constitution, and parliamentary |neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | |and presidential elections. |pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | |These votes will be held, |Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| |despite continued attempts by |they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |bandit groups and their leaders |could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| |to scupper the process of |of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |normalisation in the republic, |Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |the latest terrorist act being |hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | |the bombing of the republican |Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| |government building. The war |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | |being waged by Chechen |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |separatists against federal |to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | |forces and more often than not |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |against their own co-citizens is|Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |by no means a "national |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |liberation struggle of the |survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |Chechen people", but an episode |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| |in the overall offensive by |looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |international terrorism on the |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |fundamental principles of modern|tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |civilisation. The facts show |artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |that being a part of the Russian|brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |Federation in no way threatens |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | |identity, the free use of its |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | |own language, and preaching |blue fringework. | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |during de facto "independence" |ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |from Russia that the Chechen | | |people suffered a humanitarian | Chechen tarditions | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |trade and plundering came to |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |form the economic basis of the |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |became the form of its political|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |existence. We want to emphasise |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |once more: Chechnya is part of |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Russia , geographically, |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |politically and |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |civilisation-wise. So a |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |hypothetical triumph of radical |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Islamism on its territory would |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |be anti-historical. Such a |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |development would signify the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |establishment in the midst of |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |with all ensuing consequences |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |for the international community.|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |The corporate author - |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |journalists of the Russian |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as| Chechen cuisine | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |(above all posed by a foreign |traditions| music | |audience) about the Chechen |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Chechnya : Questions and |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Answers". It draws heavily on |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |information provided by various |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Russian ministries and |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |departments that in one or |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |another way are involved in |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |normalising life in the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |republic. |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Russian Information Agency |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Novosti |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |=eng] in detail ...) |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | | Chechen economics |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Entrepreneurial license can now |eng] in detail ...) | |be got in Chechnya | | | | - | |[4990] Chechens now have the | | |chance of obtaining a license on|## | |22 types of businesses and for | | |that purpose a licensing chamber| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |was created two years ago by a | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |decision of the government. Each| | |day all those businessmen who | | |are currently creating jobs for | | |the people receive a license to | | |start their own business. In the| | |main, licenses are being given | | |to companies connected with | | |trading and intermediary | | |activities. They deal in ferrous| | |and non-ferrous metals, | | |medicines, foodstuffs, wines and| | |spirits, and light industrial | | |items. The largest number of | | |licenses has been issued in | | |Grozny and that is not | | |surprising. After all the | | |Chechen capital now boasts of | | |the greatest number of | | |businesses. In the first 4 | | |months of this year 180 | | |businessmen from different | | |regions in the republic also | | |obtained licenses All the papers| | |of the future businessmen are | | |carefully scrutinized by the | | |licensing authorities after | | |which they are registered on the| | |spot. Licensing is refused only | | |on the ground of a seri0us | | |violation. For an example, | | |before a private shop is | | |registered it must be | | |ascertained that it is equipped | | |with a cash machine and the | | |trading premise should not be | | |less than 53 square meters. | | |Windows must have iron bars, the| | |shop must have an iron door as | | |well as have an automatic | | |signaling device. It is | | |extremely hard in todays most | | |difficult conditions in Chechnya| | |for all the demands to be met. | | |Therefore a little deviation | | |from the norms cannot prevent an| | |applicant from receiving the | | |license sought. But a remark is | | |made in the license about the | | |need for rectification and the | | |time limit for such. Usually a | | |license is given for one year. | | |The deputy chairman of the | | |Chechen licensing chamber, | | |Magomed Israilov believes that | | |the more active Chechens do | | |business the more new jobs will | | |be created in the republic and | | |that is the best recipe for a | | |speedy rebirth of Chechnya. | | |([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] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+