The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 254 | | | 14.01.05 | |Red Cross official missing in | | |Grozny |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A member of the Grozny office of|14 January 2005 Three staff members of Chechen presidential | |the International Committee of |security service killed | |the Red Cross has disappeared in|Three staff members of the Chechen presidential security | |Chechnya, sources in the |service were killed in the highlands of southern Chechnya on | |republic's law enforcement |Wednesday when their car came under submachine gun fire, a | |agencies told Interfax. Red |source in the Vedeno district police department told Interfax | |Cross official Said-Khusein |on Thursday. The three men died instantly and a local resident| |Deniyev and another two unknown |who happened to be in the same car died later from injuries he| |people left the organization's |suffered during the attack. Investigators are working at the | |office in Grozny's Leninsky |crime scene. Police are searching for the attackers. | |district and disappeared on |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |January 13. A search for them is|Chechnya...) | |in progress, one of the sources | | |said. Senior Chechen law |14 January 2005 R.Kadyrov: Detention of Maskhadov's relatives| |enforcement officials could not |denied | |be reached for comment. |Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has denied | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |reports that the republic's law enforcement agencies allegedly| |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |detained relatives of Chechen separatist leader Aslan | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |Maskhadov. "These reports are not true," Kadyrov told Interfax| | |by phone on Thursday. "Acting on my instruction, various law | |Russia does its best to protect |enforcement agencies carried out a detailed check and | |human rights in Chechnya, says |established that neither Interior Ministry bodies nor any | |Russian Defense Minister |other agencies had received letters from relatives of the | | |aforementioned people reporting their abduction," he said. | |Russia does its best to protect |Kadyrov offered his comments in response to a press release | |human rights in Chechnya, |circulated by the Memorial human rights center in Moscow on | |Russian Defense Minister Sergei |Wednesday evening that eight of Maskhadov's relatives had been| |Ivanov told the New York-based |detained by Chechen law enforcement agencies on December 3-28,| |United States Council on Foreign|2004. They include Maskhadov's two brothers, sister and | |Relations, a non-governmental |nephew, the release says. | |organization. "I am fully |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |authorized to say that we not |Chechnya...) | |only have all information | | |concerning rule of law and human|14 January 2004 Most of foreign mercenaries killed in | |rights in Chechnya, but also |Chechnya are turks | |take all measures necessary to |Turkey is a record-breaker among the nations whose citizens | |improve it on the regional as |have been killed as mercenaries operating as part of illegal | |well as federal level," the |armed formations in Chechnya, Russian Defense Minister Sergei | |Russian Defense Minister said. |Ivanov told a news conference at the Russian embassy in | |He said all human rights |Washington. "I see no major problems in the Russian-Turkish | |violations, including those |relations, except the double standards towards the fight | |revealed in the course of the |against terrorism. I mean Turkey is a record-breaker in terms | |counter terrorist operation, |of the number of its citizens killed in Chechnya while | |were being thoroughly |operating with Chechen illegal armed formations," the minister| |investigated, and those who have|noted. Minister Ivanov also stressed that the Russian-Turkish | |committed crimes are punished in|relations had been on the rise, all the more so that Russian | |full compliance with the Russian|President Vladimir Putin has recently paid a visit to Turkey | |legislation. "In the past years,|and a large Turkish businessman team led by Turkish Prime | |dozens of military |Minister Recep Erdogan reciprocated as early as in the | |servicepersons have been |beginning of this week. Responding to questions about the | |convicted by court for various |Russian-Armenian relations in light of Russia's links with | |crimes, many of which were |Turkey, the Russian defense minister noted that Armenia was a | |committed against the civilian |closest Russian ally. "Our two countries are members of the | |population of Chechnya. The fact|Collective Security Treaty Organization (along with Armenia | |that the number of crimes has |and Russia, the members of this defense organization under the| |dropped of late is explained by |CIS auspices are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and | |the mere fact that the war is |Tajikistan). There is a large Russian military base in | |over," he said. At the same |Armenia. We have very close economic and cultural links," | |time, he noted, the Russian |Ivanov said. At the same time, he said, "We are not going to | |Defense Ministry has information|push Armenia in any direction. Armenia is a sovereign nation | |about 150 to 200 foreign |that will take its own decision on where it wants to go. This | |mercenaries active in Chechnya. |is a principle of ours." | |"Suffice it to say, mercenaries |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |from over 50 states participated|Chechnya...) | |and were eliminated in the | | |counter terrorist operation area| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |in Chechnya. We have information| | |about 150 to 200 foreign | Russia - Chechnya | |mercenaries active in Chechnya. | | |Most [mercenaries that we know | Chechen culture | |of] have been recruited in | | |Turkey, a NATO member state," |Literary Ties | |the Russian official said. He |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |said dozens of Turkish citizens |literature | |had been eliminated in fighting | | |against militant groups. "I |[685] | |would like to use this |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |opportunity to state once again,|writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |firmly and unequivocally: Russia|colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |has never and will never hold |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |any talks and keep any contacts |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |with terrorists. Hopefully, our |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |NATO partners will stick to the |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |same principles, rather than |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |providing asylum to notorious |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |people, as it was in Britain and|into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |the United States," the minister|Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |said. ([http:// |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |lng=eng] more...) |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | | |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | | Chechen history |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | | |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | | |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |To Reader |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music | Chechen tarditions | | | | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |a Russian territory which has |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |witnessed the most tragic events|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Chechen Republic . And this is |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |very important, since a lack of |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |fresh and accurate information |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |about events in Chechnya |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |generates many distorted |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |conceptions and rumours - both |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |within and outside Russia . For |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |example, that Chechen society is|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |allegedly inherently alien to |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Russia , that pro-Russian |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |elements in the republic are |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Russian power structures are |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |fighting the Chechen people, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |rather than armed bandit groups.|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the | Chechen cuisine | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |restored, children going to |traditions| music | |school for the first time in |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |many years, and pensioners |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |receiving long-forgotten |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |referendum on a new Chechen |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |constitution, and parliamentary |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |and presidential elections. |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |These votes will be held, |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |despite continued attempts by |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |bandit groups and their leaders |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |to scupper the process of |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |normalisation in the republic, |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |the latest terrorist act being |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |the bombing of the republican |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |government building. The war |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |being waged by Chechen |their own. | |separatists against federal |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |forces and more often than not |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |fundamental principles of modern| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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