+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 193 | | | 28.05.04 | |Chechnya drama & Abu Ghraib | | |abuse no link: Russiass Foreign |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Ministry | | | |[785] 28 May 2004 Chechen field commander lays down arms | |Moscow does not see whatever |The head of the districts education department Razavdi | |link between developments in |Magomadov is satisfied with the results of the year. Pupils | |Chechnya and prisoner abuse in |made progress in all subjects. This is the result of improving| |Iraq's Abu Ghraib, Alexander |material base of the 15 schools in the district. Almost all | |Yakovenko, Foreign Ministry |pupils get textbooks. Pupils have become healthier since they | |spokesman, stressed to a Novosti|go on sports and schools are well equipped. None of the | |news conference. As an American |schools have three shifts and three schools have one shift. | |girl reporter brought the two |The quality of education and skills of teachers have improved | |painful issues together in her |too. Among the best teachers in the district are the directors| |question, the diplomat said: "As|of the Shatoi secondary school and Vashindoroi secondary | |for the Chechen situation, we |school, Taisa Alieva and Abykhamid Shamaev and teachers | |are regularly offering political|Makalov, Adamov, Magomadov and Kishlakaev. Schools have | |settlement details at all |started to prepare for final-year examinations. Information | |levels, to the USA as any other.|about final-year students and the schedules of examination | |Russia is doing it with all due |have appeared on notice boards. Teachers explain to pupils and| |patience, and the efforts are |their parents about the school certificate. Comfortable | |bringing fruit." Not that the |classrooms have been chosen for examinations. Razavdi | |job is brilliant success, he |Magomadov believes that all students will do exams | |acknowledged-suffice it to |successfully. The department has concrete plans for future. If| |mention a resolution on Chechnya|the residents of the village of Kharsena return home a school | |the European Union recently |will be opened there. Department plans to build a sports | |offered to the UN rights |school and a centre for creative works. It hopes to turn | |committee. The USA voted in its |several preliminary schools into secondary. Razavdi Magomadov | |favour, but the resolution was |believes that schools move in the right direction. He knows | |buried. Russia will go on |clearly what to do next. Its very important that republican | |explaining to the USA and other |ministry and minister himself help the schools in the | |countries what is going on in |district. | |Chechnya, added Mr. Yakovenko. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |As for inmate abuse in the Abu |(more News from Chechnya...) | |Ghraib prison, he hopes the USA | | |will be serious with |28 May 2004 CoE human rights commissioner informed about | |investigation. America is a |situation in Chechnya | |democracy, so he has every |Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya Taus Jabrailov met | |reason to hope it will cope with|High Commissioner of the Council of Europe (CoE) for Human | |the problem, which involves its |Rights Alvaro Jil Robles in Moscow to inform him about the | |own laws trespassed. Russia and |developments in the Chechen Republic since the tragic death of| |other countries are looking |President Akhmat Kadyrov and State Council President Husein | |forward to detection and court |Isayev in the May 9 blast. Spokesman for the State Council | |verdicts on prisoners' cruel |Sayd Dibiyev quoted Jabrailovs statement at the meeting with | |treatment. Moscow is perusing an|the High Commissioner of the Council of Europe as saying, | |UK-US draft UN Security Council |Terrorists failed to split Chechen society by that terrorist | |resolution on Iraq, which has |act. On the contrary, the entire people condemned the crime | |been offered Security Council |resolutely and voiced determined support of the republics | |members for consideration. |authorities and their specific steps aimed at securing peace | |Lahdar Brahimi, the UN Secretary|and stability. The Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya | |General's special envoy, is soon|told Alvaro Jil Robles about the measures taken in Grozny to | |coming back from Iraq, and |prevent the breakout of a socio-political crisis and the steps| |Russia looks forward to his |designed to encourage positive developments in the republic. | |report, and Security Council |The High Commissioner, for his part, noted the positive | |debates on his ideas of a future|aspects in the activity of the government of the Chechen | |Iraqi government. The government|Republic and stressed the need for ensuring public security | |needs public confidence in its |for the inhabitants of Chechnya in this situation. According | |country, so it will be key part |to Dibiyev, Taus Jabrailov also told Alvaro Jil Robles about | |of the resolution, pointed out |the government efforts designed to repatriate displaced | |the diplomat. As Russia pointed |persons from Ingushetia and create appropriate conditions at | |out more than once, the future |the temporary accommodation centers. Jabrailovs answers | |government needs the entire |satisfied the CoE commissioner and the European human rights | |nation's confidence. All Iraqi |champions who accompanied him, said the spokesman for the | |political forces, opposition |State Council of Chechnya. | |included, must speak up on the | | |matter. As Moscow sees it, |27 May 2004 No army call up in Chechnya | |whatever initiatives on the new |The Chechen military commissar, colonel Sayid-Selim Tsuyev, | |Security Council resolution and |has not been ordered by the staff office of the North Caucasus| |Iraqi government membership must|military district to organize the conscripting of Chechen | |have the utmost publicity for |youth into the army, meaning, according to colonel Tsuyev, | |all Council members to take part|that there will be no spring call up in the republic. Military| |in debates. Russia is |orders are not discussed but colonel Tsuyev believes that | |enthusiastic about interim |there are certain reasons for the decision not to carry out a | |understandings made in Sudan, |recruitment drive in Chechnya this spring. Firstly, Chechen | |Mr. Yakovenko went on. It |conscripts serve only in the local rifle companies in the | |insists on all disputes settled |regional military commandants offices and in platoons guarding| |peacefully, and on Sudan |military commissariats. In 2003 enough numbers of youths were | |retaining its territorial |sent there, filling all the vacancies in the units. Secondly, | |integrity in final settlement. |the setting up of medical commissions is yet to be completed | |The latest understandings have |and in 7 regions none exists at all while in others they are | |come as a stride toward the |not fully staffed. Also the e-registration of conscripts and | |Southern Sudan issue finally |their medical examination have not been completed. But by the | |settled. The three |autumn that work should be completed, believes colonel Tsuyev.| |understandings the Sudanese |He views all the previous call ups in Chechnya as experimental| |government signed with the |since they were carried out with much difficulty and | |People's Liberation Army are |unsuccessfully. At the same time though, colonel Tsuyev | |opening the road to a peace |regards the recruitment of contract soldiers among local | |treaty that will put an end to |residents as an important achievement by the republics | |civil warfare. It flared up |military commissars office. In the past few years the army | |nineteen years ago as central |ranks have thus been swelled in Chechnya by 40 to 60 men and | |authorities ordered the Shari'a |they are serving in the West and East battalions as well as in| |court and other Muslim laws and |two rifle companies guarding Chechen military commissariats. | |legal establishments spread |The West mountain units of the Federal forces are under the | |throughout the country, |command of the hero of Russia, major Sayid-Magomed Kakiyev | |including its south, dominated |while the East battalion is commanded by senior lieutenant | |by Christianity and animism. |Sulim Yadamayev. Only men aged 20 to 40 who have already | |Close on two million perished in|completed their call up stint can serve as contract soldiers. | |the war. The Eurasian Economic |Contract servicemen in Chechnya like in other parts of Russia | |Community, or EURASEC, was |earn between 8 thousand and 12 thousand rubles per month and | |another prominent topic at the |taking into account the employment situation in Chechnya such | |conference. The EURASEC |a salary is a huge help. In recent times there has been a | |Interparliamentary Assembly is |significant increase in the number of Chechen youths wishing | |holding session in Astana, |to study in military educational institutions and this year 23| |Kazakhstan, May 27-29, to |people have applied to the republics military commissariat for| |prepare the grounds for June 17 |places in military institutions. After an examination they | |Community summitry. The Kazakh |will be sent to military secondary schools and higher | |capital is hosting an Assembly |institutions in Russia. | |plenary session, and a bureau |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=§ion=diaryeng] | |session. Speaker Boris Gryzlov |(more News from Chechnya...) | |of the State Duma, parliament's | | |lower house, and a parliamentary| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |delegation are expected to join | | |Russian representatives in | Russia - Chechnya | |Astana. The session will promote| | |team efforts and integration in | Chechen culture | |the post-Soviet area. Prominent | | |on the agenda will be bringing |Traditional Folk Arts | |national legal norms closer |Chechen home and utensils | |together in many fields, said | | |the diplomat. |[49] | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |It was not until the late 19th century that the Chechens | |index.php?lng=§ion=Moseng] |started using other than wooden, brass and earthen tableware. | |more...) |Village artisans had polished their skills to perfection in | | |making household utensils. Glazed crockery featured geometric | |20 militants killed in southern |or floral designs. Bowls were usually big. And the shape of a | |Chechnya |bowl depended on what they would put into it. A pitcher with a| | |narrow neck contained melted butter. A pitcher with a wide | |Federal troops killed 20 |neck was meant for milk and sour milk. The neck of a water | |militants in two days of a |pitcher was so narrow that only a child's fist could fit in. | |special anti-terrorist operation|Water pitchers had big handles and wide circle-shaped bottoms:| |in three southern districts of |they would be carried on the shoulder from the river that | |Chechnya, according to spokesman|could flow far enough from home or in a canyon. A special kind| |of the military command in North|of earthenware held grain. Demand was high for the well-made | |Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin. He told|Chechen pottery.Wooden tableware was made with a lathe. The | |Tass the operation is coming to |hardest sorts of timber - oak and maple - went for tableware. | |an end and additional army units|Some household utensils were also made of wood: barrels, wheel| |engaged in Vedeno, Shatoi and |spikes and other parts of wheelcarts. Cradles were made of | |Shali districts are currently |wood in such a way as to enable a Chechen mother to strap it | |being withdrawn. However special|to her back and carry it out to the field. Its accommodating | |task forces continue to search |design and loyalty to the national tradition explain why some | |for remaining scattered bandits.|Chechen women still put their babies in such cradles. Other | |Shabalkin said the remaining |things made of wood: trays, mugs, spoons, churns - have also | |small gangs have no single |survived till nowadays. 19th century brass washbowls, mugs, | |command and no communications. |tubs and pots are still used by the Chechens. The Chechen home| |In Vedeno district the militants|looks traditionally simple, if not ascetic. There was an | |have not received any |absolute minimum of furniture: portable wooden beds and small | |instructions from bandit leaders|tables. But household utensils that do credit to the village | |for nearly two months. ([http://|artisans adorned the rooms. There were things made of wood and| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |brass, crockery and, in addition to all that, things made of | |lng=§ion=Moseng] more...) |wool and felt. Felt was indispensable. Chechens used it for | | |mattresses, blankets and wall rugs and as insulation lining. | | Chechen history |Multicolor Chechen rugs are usually decorated with red and | | |blue fringework. | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |ctradeng&row=1] in detail ...) | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | Chechen tarditions | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | | |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |, a Russian territory which has | | |witnessed the most tragic events|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |over the past decade. The book |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |is the latest update on the |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Chechen Republic . And this is |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |very important, since a lack of |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |fresh and accurate information |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |about events in Chechnya |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |generates many distorted |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |conceptions and rumours - both |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |within and outside Russia . For |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |example, that Chechen society is|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |allegedly inherently alien to |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |elements in the republic are |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |marginalised; and lastly, that |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Russian power structures are |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.| Chechen cuisine | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |legitimate authorities are |traditions| music | |villages and towns being |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |restored, children going to |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |school for the first time in |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |many years, and pensioners |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |receiving long-forgotten |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |referendum on a new Chechen |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |constitution, and parliamentary |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |and presidential elections. |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |These votes will be held, |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |despite continued attempts by |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |bandit groups and their leaders |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |to scupper the process of |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |normalisation in the republic, |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |the latest terrorist act being |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |the bombing of the republican |their own. | |government building. The war |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |being waged by Chechen |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |in the overall offensive by | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+