The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 257 | | | 26.01.05 | |Kidnappings in Chechnya more | | |than halved in 2004 - interior |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |ministry | | | |26 January 2005 A project unique for the North Caucasus has | |In 2004 the number of |been launched in Gudermes | |kidnappings in Chechnya more |A capsule with a message to the future generations was laid in| |than halved. This information |the foundation of a recreation center and an aqua park on | |was cited at the collegium |Tuesday. Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov and his first | |sitting of the Chechen Interior |deputy Ramzan Kadyrov signed the message. All of us, | |Ministry, where results of the |regardless our nationality, are created by one and the same | |past year were summed up. "While|Lord. All of us walk on this land, and all of us want to live | |440 abductions were registered |in peace and accord, the message runs. The recreation center | |in 2003, there were 168 in |will create jobs and boost the economic development of this | |2004", RIA Novosti learnt from |area, Abramov told Itar-Tass. The engineering infrastructure | |the ministerial press service. |of Gudermes will be modernized, and the recreation center will| |It also said that in 2004 |become an attraction for tourists, he said. The center will be| |law-enforcers destroyed 115 |named after Zelimkhan Kadyrov, senior son of Chechen late | |bandits and detained another 257|president Akhmad Kadyrov. It will include the Ramzan fitness | |criminals in Chechnya. According|club, an aqua park, a hotel, a sauna, a movie theatre and | |to the Interior Ministry, the |several cafes. The construction will be done in two years, but| |total number of crimes |the first segment of the recreation center will open this | |registered in Chechnya was cut |summer. The Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation is the general investor,| |by 22 percent in comparison with|the Chechen City Planning and Development Center is the | |2003. The crime exposure rate |client, the A-Engineering is the designer, and the Russian | |has increased by 9 percent and |City Planning Institute is the coordinator of the | |is 68 percent of the total. |architectural concept. Foreign partners, who have had similar | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |projects before, will help to build the recreation center. The| |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |total cost of the project is Eur5.6 million. The aqua park is | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |expected to start bringing profits seven years after it is | | |opened. | |An Accord on Cooperation between|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |the Health Ministry of |Chechnya...) | |Sverdlovsk Region and the | | |Chechen Republic |25 January 2005 Chechen leaders assail separatist ideologue's| | |statements | |The public organization The |The Chechen leadership has described as absurd a statement | |Union for Peace Restoration and |made by an ideologue of the Chechen separatists, Movladi | |Accord inChechnya set up in |Udugov, about the situation in the North Caucasus. "Udugov's | |Yekaterinburg , over its years |statement can only be described as absurd. He has been | |has done quite useful work in |forgotten altogether and is trying to make his presence felt,"| |the region, including shoring up|Chechen Deputy Prime Minister and envoy in Moscow Ziyad | |stability in inter-ethnic |Sabsabi told Interfax on Tuesday. "Udugov's statement that | |relations. To this effect, |Russia cannot maintain stability in the North Caucasus is | |round-table discussions and |absurd, while his assertions that military operations will be | |get-togethers with media |escalated are even more absurd," said Sabsabi. He said the | |representatives were held. A |bandits operating in the North Caucasus are part of | |positive image of Chechens was |international terrorism with which the whole world is | |promoted in public and |fighting. "The whole world is fighting against terrorism. The | |law-enforcement agencies. Close |handfuls of criminals and gangs that have survived in the | |working relations formed by the |North Caucasus are part of international terrorism and will | |Union with the regions |never draw support in the North Caucasus or other Russian | |leadership, promoted this goal. |regions," he said. He said that the situation in the North | |Educational work is being |Caucasus is improving and that special emphasis has been put | |carried on among local Chechens,|on the region's socioeconomic development. "The military | |especially among the younger |component is being relegated to the background and the main | |generation, to prevent |emphasis has been put on the region's socioeconomic | |violations of the law, and |development. The Russian leadership is paying special | |public order. And according to |attention to this," Sabsabi said. | |Slautdin Mamakov chief of The |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Union for Peace Restoration and |Chechnya...) | |Accord in Chechnya, these | | |efforts have been quite |25 January 2004 Member of Chechen branch of United Russia | |fruitful. At the same time, the |dead in Mecca | |organization has tried its best |Deputy chief of the Chechen branch of United Russia party | |to help Chechen migrants with |Lecha Magomedov died on Tuesday during a pilgrimage to places | |housing and employment. The |of worship in Mecca. Preliminary reports said Magomedov died | |Union for Peace Restoration and |of a stroke he suffered in Mecca, a source from the Chechen | |Accord in Chechnya intends to |Muftis office told Tass on Tuesday. The United Russia | |hold an all-Urals conference of |headquarters has been negotiating the return of the body to | |representatives of Chechen |Chechnya although traditionally, a pilgrim who dies in Mecca | |communities of the entire |is buried there. Lecha Magomedov was around 70 years old. He | |region. But the organization |was one of the organizers of the United Russia branch in | |pays special attention to |Chechnya and until recently, he had been Deputy secretary of | |Chechen children, particularly |its political council. | |gravely sick and needing |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |treatment and rehabilitation. |Chechnya...) | |And unfortunately, those are | | |numbering at least 40,000. By | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |joint efforts of the Union, | | |personally Salautdin Mamakov, | Russia - Chechnya | |and the Sverdlovsk Regions | | |Health Ministry, an accord of | Chechen culture | |cooperation is to be signed | | |shortly with the Chechen |Literary Ties | |Republic and sent there for its |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |endorsement. After its signing, |literature | |many children and women from | | |Chechnya will be eligible for |[685] | |qualified medical assistance in |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |the best clinics of |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk|colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |Region. ([http:// |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |lng=eng] more...) |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| | |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | | Chechen history |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | | |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | | |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |To Reader |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |traditions| music |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | | |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |a Russian territory which has |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |witnessed the most tragic events|by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |over the past decade. The book |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |is the latest update on the |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of | Chechen tarditions | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |generates many distorted |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |conceptions and rumours - both |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |allegedly inherently alien to |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Russia , that pro-Russian |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |elements in the republic are |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |marginalised; and lastly, that |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Russian power structures are |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |fighting the Chechen people, |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |rather than armed bandit groups.|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |The reality, however, is that |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |only with the return of the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |legitimate authorities are |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |villages and towns being |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |restored, children going to |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |school for the first time in |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |many years, and pensioners |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |receiving long-forgotten |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a | Chechen cuisine | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |and presidential elections. |traditions| music | |These votes will be held, |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |despite continued attempts by |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |bandit groups and their leaders |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |to scupper the process of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |normalisation in the republic, |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |the latest terrorist act being |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |the bombing of the republican |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |government building. The war |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |being waged by Chechen |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |separatists against federal |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |forces and more often than not |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |against their own co-citizens is|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |by no means a "national |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |liberation struggle of the |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Chechen people", but an episode |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |in the overall offensive by |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |international terrorism on the |their own. | |fundamental principles of modern|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |civilisation. The facts show |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |during de facto "independence" | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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