+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 192 | | | 24.05.04 | |Russian Government to present | | |federal program for restoration |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |of Chechnya | | | |24 May 2004 Chechen field commander lays down arms | |The Russian Government plans to |Influential Chechen field commander Sulim Eldarov have given | |announce a more precise federal |himself up to Chechen law enforcement agencies. The situation | |targeted program for restoration|in Chechnya has changed, and I dont want to go against the | |of social and economic sphere of|will of the Chechen people, Eldarov told reporters on | |the Chechen republic, a source |Saturday, explaining his decision to lay down arms. He was | |in the Russian Government told |negotiating his surrender via mediators with officials from | |RIA Novosti. Russian Minister of|the Chechen presidents security service. Now we continue | |Economic Development and Trade |negotiations with other field commanders, the chief-of-staff | |German Gref visited Chechnya and|of the security service, Artur Akhmadov, said. In the first | |the RF Government plans to |Chechen war, Eldarov led a rifle battalion of self-proclaimed | |announce a more precise federal |Ichkerias armed forces. Over the past few years, he has been | |targeted program: "the resources|leading armed rebel groups in the Nozhai-Yurt region. | |must go to what we have to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |restore first of all," the |(more News from Chechnya...) | |source said. According to the | | |source, the main goal of the |24 May 2004 EU to continue humanitarian aid to Chechnya | |program is to restore certain |The European Union will continue humanitarian aid to Chechnya,| |object, at the same time the |Irish Prime Minister and EU President-in-Office Bertie Ahern | |means allocated for the purpose |said at a press conference in the Kremlin. The EU strongly | |will be monitored. |denounced the terrorist act in Grozny on May 9, he said. | |"Unfortunately, the resources |President Vladimir Putin said he was determined to continue | |have been used inefficiently |the reconstruction of Chechnya, and the EU would carry on | |although Chechnya has got |humanitarian aid to that republic, he said. Ahern said the | |considerable amount of money," |EU-Russia summit discussed the anti-terrorist fight and the | |the source said. We will |situation in Iraq and the Middle East. | |increase financing, but we do | | |not have a lot of money, all the|24 May 2004 Chechnya begins early presidential campaign | |money must go where it should |An early presidential campaign begins in Chechnya on May 24. | |go. "We should minimize all |The Chechen Election Commission will officially publish a | |possible risks, we should |resolution that the presidential elections will be held on | |reinforce the control and |August 29. Every candidate contesting the post of the Chechen | |maintain the financing |president should either collect 6,000 votes in his support ( | |efficiency." The Government does|one percent of the total number of eligible voters in | |not rule out that Department |Chechnya) or pay a collateral worth 4.5 million roubles in | |responsible for restoration of |order to get registered a candidate, Chairman of the Chechen | |Chechnya will move from Moscow |election commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov told Itar-Tass, The| |to Grozny. |victory in the first round is possible on condition that a | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |candidate wins 50 percent plus one vote given that the turnout| |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |is no less than 50 percent. Otherwise, run-off elections will | |more...) |be held in which the winner will be decided by a simple | | |majority. July 14 is the deadline by which all the candidates | |Tbilisi wants to know how |for presidency should submit their documents to the Election | |Gelayev gang comes to Kodori |Commission. The election law envisages that signatures | |gorge |collected in support of each candidate should be checked | | |within ten days. The final number of the candidates registered| |Georgian Minister of State on |for the presidential elections will be announced on July 25. | |Settling Conflicts Gogi |Around 565,000 voters, including servicemen stationed in | |Khaindrava sent a letter to the |Chechnya on a permanent basis, are expected to take part in | |countrys Prosecutor-Generals |the early presidential elections in Chechnya. | |Office with a proposal to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |investigate circumstances, under|(more News from Chechnya...) | |which Ruslan Gelayev and his | | |gang appeared in the Kodori | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |gorge in autumn 2001. Speaking | | |on the Tbilisi-based Rustavi-2 | Russia - Chechnya | |TV company, Khaindrava said that| | |it is difficult to believe that | Chechen culture | |Gelayev and around 200 members | | |of his gang passed from the |Traditional Folk Arts | |Pankissi gorge, Eastern Georgia,|Chechen home and utensils | |across the entire country to the| | |Kodori gorge, undetected by the |[49] | |then authorities. If Eduard |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |Shevardnadze was not interested |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |in that question, this event is |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | |of interest to the countrys |making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |general public. Georgia was |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |accused at that time of abetting|bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| |at terrorists. Therefore, it is |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |necessary to investigate who |neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | |helped the Gelayev gang to reach|pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | |the Pankissi gorge, Khaindrava |Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| |said. Members of Gelayevs gang |they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |appeared in the Pankissi gorge |could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| |near the Chechen section of the |of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |Georgian-Russian border in the |Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |summer of 2000. In September |hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | |2001, Gelayev and his gang |Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| |turned to be in the Kodori |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | |gorge, the only area of |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |Abkhazia, controlled by Tbilisi.|to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | |According to a version of the |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |then Georgian authorities, |Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |Gelayevs gang planned to |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |infiltrate into Russia across |survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |the Karachayevo-Cherkessia |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| |section of the Georgian-Russian |looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |border. In November 2001, |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |Gelayev and his gang left the |tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |Kodori and returned to the |artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |Pankissi gorge. Tbilisi said in |brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |September 2002 that Gelayevs |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | |gang left the Pankissi gorge and|mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | |returned to Chechnya in |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | |connection with the start of a |blue fringework. | |special operation by Georgian |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |law enforcement bodies. ([http:/|ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |/www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) | Chechen tarditions | | | | | Chechen history |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | | |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | | | | |To Reader |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |traditions| music |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | | |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |, a Russian territory which has |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |witnessed the most tragic events|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |over the past decade. The book |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |is the latest update on the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Chechen Republic . And this is |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |very important, since a lack of |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |fresh and accurate information |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |about events in Chechnya |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |generates many distorted |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |conceptions and rumours - both |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is| Chechen cuisine | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |elements in the republic are |traditions| music | |marginalised; and lastly, that |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russian power structures are |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |fighting the Chechen people, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |rather than armed bandit groups.|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |The reality, however, is that |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |only with the return of the |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |legitimate authorities are |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |villages and towns being |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |restored, children going to |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |school for the first time in |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |many years, and pensioners |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |receiving long-forgotten |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |referendum on a new Chechen |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |and presidential elections. |their own. | |These votes will be held, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |despite continued attempts by |eng] in detail ...) | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of | - | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being |## | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |being waged by Chechen | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | | |own language, and preaching | | |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| | |trade and plundering came to | | |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 | | | | | |Entrepreneurial license can now | | |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| | |was created two years ago by a | | |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] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+