The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 256 | | | 21.01.05 | |Chechen pres, PM, other top | | |officials met with elderly |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |people | | | |21 January 2005 United Nations realizes a social and economic| |More than 100 Chechen elderly |development programme in the North Caucasus | |people who are over 100 came to |The UN development programme, a leading UN agency inRussia, is| |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, |realizing this important task. The activity of the agency is | |Premier Sergei Abramov, |mainly aimed at helping social and economic development of the| |Vice-Premier Ramzan Kadyrov for |countries and promoting in their civil society and democracy. | |a meeting organized on the |The UN agencies operating in the North Caucasus have been | |initiative of the Akhmat Kadyrov|basically engaged in giving humanitarian aid. The social | |public foundation. The aim of |economic development programme for the region is a new trend | |the meeting was to emphasize the|in the activity of the agency and the United Nations as a | |importance of generation |whole since its operations have consistently turned into | |succession in Chechnya, ancient |assisting social economic development from giving humanitarian| |traditions maintenance and |aid. The project is linked with North Ossetia and Ingushetia. | |observance of traditional Islam |The agency opened its mission in Vldikavkaz in November. It is| |norms. Foundation vice-president|now drawing up the programme. At the same time it searches for| |Muslim Khuchiyev said that old |partners, analyses the situation and plans economic | |people intended to perform the |development to solve the problems facing refugees living on | |national religious dance Zikr |these republics. The programme is designed for three years. | |during the meeting and hold a |The agency closely coordinates its work with the local | |religious service in memory of |administrations. The UN Development Programmes realizes | |victims killed by terrorists and|several projects in the region, which would give real results | |pray for well-being of Chechnya,|in the near future. Among these projects are repairing and | |its people and all Russia. Old |upgrading of transport infrastructure, sewage system, schools,| |people as nobody else know |parks and play grounds for children and other public places. | |ancient laws and real Islam |This makes it possible for refugees to get temporary work. It | |norms and their values for |is expected to create 250 jobs in the first stage. The United | |Chechen people, Khuchiyev |Nations, Sweden and Britain finance these projects. The work | |stressed. Old people's words and|of this year's programme is estimated at 1.5 million US | |viewpoints are particularly |dollars. According to an aide the public relations official of| |timely and valuable at present, |the programme, Victoria Zotikova, the agency believes that the| |when wahhabites and extremists |realization of even small projects will improve living | |give their own Islam and Chechen|standards of ordinary people and this might stimulate their | |customs interpretation |desire for starting their own businesses. They can do so by | |advantageous for them and their |taking small loans. Victoria Zotikova said that the programme | |foreign masters, he noted. |would do its best to help them. | |Attitude to old people was |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |respectful always in the |Chechnya...) | |Caucasus, and the norm of | | |behavior is fixed in the new |20 January 2005 Chechen police capable of fighting banditry -| |Constitution of Chechnya. So. It|ministry | |was not accidental that Chechen |The formation of the Chechen Interior Ministry is almost | |first president Akhmat Kadyrov |complete, its chief of staff Col. Akhmed Dakayev told | |understood and always listened |Interfax. "Chechen law enforcement departments have become | |attentively to old people's |units capable of solving the most difficult tasks in the | |view, Khuchiyev said. |regional fight against banditry," he said. Chechen police | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |officers are fighting militants each day, he said. One hundred| |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |and thirty-four Chechen police officers died and 260 were | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |wounded in clashes with guerrillas and in terrorist acts in | | |2004, he said. | |Murtazaliyeva found guilty of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |preparing terrorist acts |Chechnya...) | | | | |The Moscow Court found guilty |20 January 2004 Chechen guerillas planning terrorist acts - | |Zara Murtazaliyeva, a resident |headquarters | |of Chechnya, of preparing |Russia's secret services have information indicating that | |terrorist acts, involving in |Chechen guerilla leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev | |acts of terrorism and illegal |are planning terrorist acts to destabilize the North Caucasus,| |acquisition, possession and |a source in the headquarters for the anti-terrorist campaign | |carrying of explosives. On March|in the North Caucasus told Interfax. "There is information | |4, 2004, Murtazaliyeva was |that ringleaders Maskhadov and Basayev have ordered | |arrested near a hotel in |large-scale terrorist acts, primarily targeted against local | |south-west of Moscow. On |civilians, in republics bordering on Chechnya. They want to | |inspection of her bag, |destabilize the North Caucasus at large," the source said. | |operatives found 200 grams of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |explosives. She has been |Chechnya...) | |sentenced to nine years | | |imprisonment. ([http:// | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) | Russia - Chechnya | | | | | Chechen history | Chechen culture | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Literary Ties | | |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |To Reader |literature | |All about Chechnya, chechens. | | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||[685] | |traditions| music |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | | |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |a Russian territory which has |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |witnessed the most tragic events|literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |over the past decade. The book |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |is the latest update on the |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |very important, since a lack of |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |fresh and accurate information |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |about events in Chechnya |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |generates many distorted |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |conceptions and rumours - both |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |within and outside Russia . For |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |example, that Chechen society is|1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |allegedly inherently alien to |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |Russia , that pro-Russian |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |elements in the republic are |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |marginalised; and lastly, that |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |Russian power structures are |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |fighting the Chechen people, |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |rather than armed bandit groups.| | |The reality, however, is that | Chechen tarditions | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |villages and towns being |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |restored, children going to |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |receiving long-forgotten |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |referendum on a new Chechen |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |constitution, and parliamentary |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |and presidential elections. |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |These votes will be held, |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |despite continued attempts by |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |bandit groups and their leaders |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |to scupper the process of |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |normalisation in the republic, |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |the latest terrorist act being |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |the bombing of the republican |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |government building. The war |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |being waged by Chechen |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not | Chechen cuisine | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |liberation struggle of the |traditions| music | |Chechen people", but an episode |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |in the overall offensive by |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |international terrorism on the |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |fundamental principles of modern|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |civilisation. The facts show |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |that being a part of the Russian|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Federation in no way threatens |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |identity, the free use of its |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |own language, and preaching |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |during de facto "independence" |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |from Russia that the Chechen |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |people suffered a humanitarian |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |tragedy on an unprecedented |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |trade and plundering came to |their own. | |form the economic basis of the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |new regime, while chaos and war |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |hypothetical triumph of radical | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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