The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 253 | | | 11.01.05 | |2004 was a turning point in | | |reviving Chechen culture and the|Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |arts | | | |11 January 2005 Two caches of ammunition discovered in | |was overstuffed with the various|Dagestan | |cultural developments, and it |Two caches of weapons and ammunition have been discovered in a| |became a turning point in |sweep operation being carried out in Dagestan. "One cache was | |reviving Chechen culture. |discovered in a rock cleft in Dagestan's Kazbekovsky district,| |According to the Chechen |several hundred meters from the administrative border with | |Minister of Culture Movla |Chechnya. It contained a Kalashnikov rifle, 800 cartridges and| |Osmayev, this was manifested, |grenades," a Dagestani law enforcement official told Interfax | |above all, in that the republics|on Saturday. The other cache was found in a summer cottage | |leading theatre companies and |settlement outside Makhachkala. It contained about a hundred | |concert halls, specifically the |cartridges, two grenades for shoulder-fired grenade launchers,| |state dance ensemble Vainakh, |a mine and an anti-tank grenade. Both caches have been | |the Nuradilov Chechen Drama |eliminated, the source said. | |Theatre, the republics |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Philharmonic Society, the Puppet|Chechnya...) | |Theatre had agreed their | | |repertoire and began to perform.|11 January 2005 Christmas service ministered in only Orthodox| |In mid-December Chechens |temple of Grozny | |celebrated the 65 years since |Many servicemen and police officers on mission in Chechnya | |the Vainakh ensemble was set up.|from various regions of Russia attended a Christmas service in| |The company had come up with and|the only Orthodox temple in Grozny 7 January. The church does | |performed a renovated concert |not have a priest yet, and Rev. Varlaam visited Grozny to | |programme. In 2005 Vainakh will |minister Orthodox Christmas services. There are about 100 | |tour Russia and will also |Orthodox believers in Grozny, and nearly all of them are | |perform at international |elderly people. Terek Cossacks built the Orthodox temple in | |folklore festivals that are |Grozny 112 years ago. The church was semi-ruined in the | |normally annually held in |hostilities, and the reconstruction began several weeks ago. | |European countries. The renowned|The reconstruction will be complete by Orthodox Christmas of | |company is aware of the fact |2006, Rev. Varlaam told Itar-Tass. Chechen President Alu | |that they will need a younger |Alkhanov visited the church several days before the New Year. | |generation of performers, so |The Orthodox church and a mosque are under repairs in the | |theyve been training 150 boys |town. Both of them will receive equal allocations from the | |and girls at their choreographic|budget. All the religions have equal rights here, Alkhanov | |studio. There are three more |told the press. | |choreographic studios for small |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |children and teenagers in |Chechnya...) | |Chechnya: the dance and song | | |ensemble Nokhcho, and also the |11 January 2004 Suspect detained in Chechnya over last June | |Bashlam and Daimohk ensembles. |Ingushetia attack | |Daimohk has been successfully |A person suspected of participating in the attack on | |touring European countries since|Ingushetia on the night to June 22 last year has been detained| |the year 2000. |in Chechnya. Police detained the suspect near the settlement | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |of Sernovodsk, a Chechen Interior Ministry source told | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |Itar-Tass. The 19-year-old person is suspected of committing a| |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |series of crimes, including participation in the armed attack | | |on Ingushetia, the source said. Chechen police also detained a| |A library can work as a |23-year-old local resident, supposedly an active member of | |comprehensive culture centre |illegal armed groups. When he was detained, he pulled out the | | |pin from a grenade and it exploded wounding him. The person | |The Integrated Library Network |was taken to hospital. The policemen were not hurt. During | |of the Nadterechny District of |special operations, Chechen police found two machine guns, two| |Chechnya is seeking new ways to |submachine guns and a great number of cartridges in a vehicle | |facilitate the quest for |left in Grozny. An investigation into the case is under way. | |education and knowledge in a |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |region that has emerged from war|Chechnya...) | |and is mounting a mammoth | | |reconstruction effort. According| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |to Director Malika Taramova, the| | |16 libraries in her Network have| Russia - Chechnya | |115 thousand books between them.| | |The greatest demand if for | Chechen culture | |technology (mostly information | | |technology), law, economics, |Literary Ties | |philosophy, history, general and|The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |local geography and ecology. |literature | |Elderly and physically | | |challenged readers get librarian|[685] | |visits at home. A network of |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |local volunteers (mostly scouts |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |and retired people) provides a |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |feedback from them. Mrs Taramova|concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |regrets an inadequate supply of |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |new books and speaks about an |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |acute shortage of books for |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |children. She expects help after|Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |she raised her concerns at a |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |conference of librarians from 33|into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |Russian regions inBelgorod this |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |autumn. She also tells us about |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |successful arrangements for |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |inter-district book exchange in |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |Chechnya. A reader who cannot |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |find the required book in his or|exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |her home district expediently |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |gets it from another. The |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |District's libraries double as |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |comprehensive culture centres. |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |They regularly host local |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |discussion forums (often with | | |refreshments and tea) on | Chechen tarditions | |anything from housekeeping and | | |cooking to family, moral |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |behavior, aging, loneliness and |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |finding a match. Youngsters are |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |drawn to computer games, | | |brain-rings and television-style|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |wit gambles. Boys of |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |pre-military age come to |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |libraries to meet with war and |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |service veterans in the |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |District. All libraries are |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |preparing exhibitions and events|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |on the 60th anniversary of |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |Allied Victory over Nazism. War |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |veterans will get home visits |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |with congratulations and |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |presents. Mrs Taramova speaks |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |about a great boost to her |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |service from a drastically |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |overhauled building of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Central District Library in |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Nadterechny. ([http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | Chechen cuisine | |lng=eng] more...) | | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | Chechen history |traditions| music | | |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | | |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |To Reader |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |traditions| music |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | | |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |a Russian territory which has |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |witnessed the most tragic events|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |over the past decade. The book |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |is the latest update on the |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Chechen Republic . And this is |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |very important, since a lack of |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |fresh and accurate information |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |about events in Chechnya |their own. | |generates many distorted |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |conceptions and rumours - both |eng] in detail ...) | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is| - | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian |## | |elements in the republic are | | |marginalised; and lastly, that | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Russian power structures are | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a | | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary | | |and presidential elections. | | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by | | |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 | | |being waged by Chechen | | |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 | | | | | |Chechen oil will go through | | |Tolstoi-Yurt | | | | | |[4764] The reconstruction of oil| | |separation station in the | | |village of Tolstoi-Yurt is near | | |completion. The technicians of | | |the Chechengrazhdanstroi Company| | |are now repairing the reserves | | |equipment. The cost of work is | | |estimated at 17 million rubles | | |or about 600 000 US dollars. | | |Grozneftgaz Company finances the| | |project. Work is being carried | | |out without halting the | | |production process. According to| | |the head of Grozny Rural | | |district's industry and | | |transport department, Isa | | |Betirov, there is a need to | | |reconstruct station and install | | |additional separation equipment | | |because it serves all oil fields| | |in Chechnya. All oil produced in| | |Chechnya passes through station.| | |When the reconstruction work | | |ends the station's capacity will| | |significantly increases. The | | |station splits raw oil into its | | |components and gas and water are| | |being removed from oil. After | | |the first stage of purification | | |oil is being transported to | | |Shelkovsky region for further | | |refining. Chechnya and other | | |Russian regions consume refined | | |oil from the republic. | | |Chechengrazhdanstroi Company has| | |promised to end the | | |reconstruction work in | | |September. | | |([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