The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 255 | | | 18.01.05 | |Missing Red Cross worker found | | |in Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A worker of the International |18 January 2005 Telephone services to be provided for Naursk | |Committee of the Red Cross, |region | |Sayid-Hussein Deniyev, who went |The telephone is fast becoming a commodity in high demand in | |missing in Chechnya on January |Chechnya and in 2004 the Naursk electronic communication hub | |13, 2004, has been found. |did a marvelous job. Chief of the center Elmurza Musayev has | |"Deniyev's relatives called us |used professional language in describing what has been done. | |on Saturday evening and told us |Work in three pilot regions has been completed: they pertain | |he had returned home. We were |to the main line and the distributing line, he said. That | |happy to learn that he is back |means that we can now add 300 telephone lines to the existing | |home and feels well," Anastasiya|40. But the 40 existing ones have been provided to government | |Isyuk, spokesman for the ICRC's |and ministerial offices. New telephone lines will be supplied | |Moscow office, told Interfax on |not only to companies but also to private citizens in the | |Sunday. She declined to comment |region. We have received about. 200 applications, an eloquent | |on where and how Deniyev, a |testimony to the return of normalcy to Chechnya, said Mr. | |worker of the ICRC's office in |Musayev. Installation fee for individual is 5 thousand rubles,| |Grozny, had been found, noting |but a year ago only a few could afford to pay that sum of | |that the ICRC had remained in |money. Elmurza Musayev is quite satisfied with the financing | |touch with the authorities and |of the work of providing telephones to the residents and he | |Deniyev's family since he |also has enough equipment and specialists. In the old 2004 | |disappeared. Deniyev left the |year one of his men graduated as a specialist and will now be | |office in Grozny's Leninsky |responsible for providing telephones to the Kalinovskaya | |district at about 4 p.m., Moscow|stanitsa, for which the quantum station has been supplied, | |time, on Thursday, accompanied |leaving the installation to be completed. In the new year the | |by two unidentified persons. He |station will be using its own telephone facility in place of | |had not been seen ever since. |the present reliance on the exchange facility and the armys | |Chechen Prosecutor Alexander |telephone. Naursk region is not limiting its plans to the | |Nikitin earlier told Interfax |Kalinovskaya stanitsa for in the new year Alpatovo will get a | |that Deniyev is being sought |telephone facility. A New Years present has been made ready | |for. Chechen State Council |for many families in the Naursk region. | |Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov said |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |on Friday that the law |Chechnya...) | |enforcement agencies are doing | | |everything possible to find |17 January 2005 Alkhanov once again speaks against talks with| |Deniyev. The ICRC reported that |Maskhadov | |Deniyev has been working with |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has yet again spoken against | |the ICRC's office in Grozny for |negotiations with Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov | |over four years. He is married |and pledged that Maskhadov and prominent guerilla leader | |and has four children. |Shamil Basayev will be hunted down soon. "Aslan Maskhadov has | |Meanwhile, the fate of another |cut off his path back to politics and normal life forever," | |worker of the ICRC's Chechen |Alkhanov said in an interview with Interfax. "I sometime find | |office, Usman Saidaliyev, |it difficult to understand the people who call from various | |remains unknown. Saidaliyev went|rostrums and newspaper pages for negotiating with Maskhadov. | |missing in Chechnya in August, |These so-called experts on Chechnya are far from reality like | |2003. |heaven and earth. I wonder how they imagine Maskhadov's | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |legalization since he publicly associated himself with dozens | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |of terrorist attacks that claimed hundreds of lives. Can they | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |imagine what an army would have to be appointed to guard | | |Maskhadov from the relatives and beloved ones of hundreds of | |Ingush police nab 30 people, |terrorist attack victims in Grozny, Nadterechnaya district, or| |confiscate arms in major sweep |Belorechye, who are eager to tear him to pieces?" Alkhanov | | |said. He suggested that the problem of capturing Maskhadov and| |Police of the Russian North |Basayev "might be resolved quite unexpectedly." "They are | |Caucasus republic Ingushetia |being searched for by perfectly trained task forces capable of| |have found several caches with |thrashing any bodyguard units and detaining them," Alkhanov | |arms in the course of a large |said. He refrained from answering whether there is | |scale security sweep, which has |intelligence on the possible whereabouts of Maskhadov and | |been carried out in the republic|Basayev. | |since January 11. All in all, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |police seized six hand grenade |Chechnya...) | |launchers, five projectiles for | | |them, 40 propelling charges for |17 January 2004 7,000 Muslim pilgrims cross Russian border in| |grenade launcher projectiles, 15|N. Caucasus | |hand grenades, a light |More than 7,400 Moslem pilgrims en route to Mecca have crossed| |machinegun, a 125-mm artillery |the Russian border through checkpoints of the Federal Security| |shell, three makeshift bombs and|Service's North Caucasus Border Department in the past month, | |4,000 rounds of ammunition, a |a source in the department's press service told Interfax on | |source at the press service of |Monday. "More than 7,400 Moslems on a hajj to Islamic holy | |the Southern Federal Districts |places have legally crossed the border. Not a single militant | |Police Headquarters told Tass |has tried to cross the border under the disguise of a pilgrim.| |Saturday. In addition, police |No one has tried to smuggle weapons or other prohibited | |have detained ten people on |items," the source said. | |suspicion of having connections |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |with illegal armed formations |Chechnya...) | |and 20 wanted criminals. | | |Personnel of the republics | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Interior Ministry, three mobile | | |detachments of the Russian | Russia - Chechnya | |Interior Ministry and units of | | |Interior Ministry troops took | Chechen culture | |part in the operation. The | | |Ingush law enforcers have also |Literary Ties | |carried out an ID check |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |operation. They inspected |literature | |private houses, inns, hostels, | | |markets and settlements of |[685] | |refugees from Chechnya and the |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |Republic of North |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |Ossetia-Alania. During the |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |sweep, police checked 10,000 |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |cars and found 15 cars stolen in|literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |other Russian regions. ([http://|A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |lng=eng] more...) |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | | |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | | Chechen history |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | | |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | | |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |To Reader |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |traditions| music |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | | |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |a Russian territory which has |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |witnessed the most tragic events|cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the | Chechen tarditions | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |fresh and accurate information |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |about events in Chechnya |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |within and outside Russia . For |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |example, that Chechen society is|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |allegedly inherently alien to |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Russia , that pro-Russian |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |elements in the republic are |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |marginalised; and lastly, that |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Russian power structures are |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |fighting the Chechen people, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |rather than armed bandit groups.|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |The reality, however, is that |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |only with the return of the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |legitimate authorities are |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |villages and towns being |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |restored, children going to |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |school for the first time in |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten | Chechen cuisine | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |referendum on a new Chechen |traditions| music | |constitution, and parliamentary |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |and presidential elections. |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |These votes will be held, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |despite continued attempts by |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |bandit groups and their leaders |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |to scupper the process of |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |normalisation in the republic, |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |the latest terrorist act being |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |the bombing of the republican |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |government building. The war |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |being waged by Chechen |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |separatists against federal |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |forces and more often than not |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |against their own co-citizens is|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |by no means a "national |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |liberation struggle of the |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Chechen people", but an episode |their own. | |in the overall offensive by |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |international terrorism on the |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |own language, and preaching | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Russian savings bank is | | |restoring its branches in | | |Chechnya | | | | | |[3054] TheNorth Caucasus branch | | |of the Russian savings bank was | | |opened in the middle of December| | |in prospect Pobedy, house number| | |5 in Grosny, where all existing | | |40 banking operations can be | | |carried out. Money can be | | |received and sent to any part of| | |Russia, payment for communal | | |services and other financial | | |operations can be effected. In | | |addition to the Grozny branch | | |another one has been operating | | |for 3 years in the Naursk | | |settlement, serving in the man, | | |private individuals and enabling| | |residents to keep money safe in | | |the bank. It also pays | | |compensation for depreciated | | |savings and accepts payment for | | |communal services. In an | | |interview for the free Chechnya | | |radio chairman of the North | | |Caucasus subsidiary of the | | |Russian savings bank Viktor | | |Gavrilov has said that among the| | |functions of the banks branches | | |in Chechnya is paying both state| | |and local compensations to | | |Chechens, including for lost and| | |damaged property and house | | |arising from the fighting in | | |Chechnya. They equally pay | | |compensation to former account | | |holders as well as pay out | | |states pension and benefits. The| | |recently signed agreement | | |between the Chechen prime | | |minister, Sergei Abramov and the| | |chairman of the Russian savings | | |bank, Andrei Kazymin on | | |compensations payment envisages | | |the orders of remittance and | | |payment into special account of | | |residents as well as payouts and| | |accounting. The agreement lists | | |out affiliates of the North | | |Caucasus savings bank in which a| | |special account can be opened. | | |Apart from the branches in the | | |Nausk village and Grozny 6 other| | |branches are also to pay out | | |money. They are located in the | | |border regions of Chechnya: two | | |are in the Dagestani branch in | | |the town of Kizlyar, pereulok | | |Rybni, house number 4-A and the | | |town of Hasav-Yurt, Daibova | | |street, house number 8. In | | |Ingushetia; the town of | | |Malgabek, Gardanova street | | |number 27; in the village of | | |Ordzhonikidzovskaya, Oskanova | | |street number 34; the town of | | |Nazran, prospect Bazorkin, 10; | | |and in the town of Mozdok, Kirov| | |street, house number 61. The | | |Russian savings bank is to | | |enlarge services to clients in | | |Chechnya with the granting of | | |loans to buy goods, building | | |materials as well as give out | | |mortgage credits. The | | |participation of the savings | | |bank in economic projects in | | |Chechnya is under active | | |consideration and an agreement | | |is to be signed with republican | | |leaders on the construction of | | |apartment buildings. In 2005 the| | |3rd branch of the North Caucasus| | |subsidiary of the Russian | | |savings bank will be | | |commissioned in Gudermes and the| | |opening of other branches in | | |several parts of Chechnya will | | |follow. | | |([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