The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 258 | | | 28.01.05 | |Six gunmen killed in Chechnya, | | |numerous explosives found |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Federal forces eliminated a |28 January 2005 Chechnya will form a guard unit | |group of militants in Chechnya |Chechnya will form a guard unit that will be responsible for | |on Thursday and found a big |the protection of President Akhmad Kadyrov, the head of the | |amount of explosives sufficient |Interior Ministry's home security department in the Southern | |to stage two dozen terrorist |Federal district, Vladimir Savchenkov, told journalists at a | |acts. The regional headquarters |press conference Thursday. According to Mr. Savchenkov, the | |for the anti-terrorist operation|detachment is currently 50% manned. "At present we are | |in North Caucasus said six |checking candidates for service in the unit," he said. | |militants were killed in |Officers in the unit will be drafted for a three-year period | |Nozhai-Yurt district of Chechnya|instead of contract-based service. "It must be a very strong | |and two of them were believed to|detachment," Mr. Savchenkov said. According to the plan, | |be Arab mercenaries. The |experienced officers from OMON (special purpose police | |militants were killed in a |detachment), SOBR (special rapid deployment detachment) and | |mountain base where numerous |qualified operative law-enforcers will be drafted for service | |explosives were kept. Their |in the detachment. The head of the department noted that the | |amount allows to believe that |new detachment would exist along with the home security | |the military had averted some |service, which currently protects Mr. Kadyrov. | |two dozen terrorist acts, the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |headquarters said. The base was |Chechnya...) | |used to train explosion experts | | |and to supply explosive devices |27 January 2005 Kadyrov accuses administration heads of | |to various parts of Chechnya and|paying guerillas | |neighboring republics. The |Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has alleged| |headquarters said the base was |that certain administrations chiefs in the Vedeno district pay| |found by army commandos in the |kickbacks to members of illegal armed units. Speaking at a | |mountains and the militants |meeting with district administration heads in Grozny on | |offered fierce resistance. The |Thursday, Kadyrov also charged that certain policemen from | |commandos found at the base over|Vedeno district are collaborating with the guerillas. | |two kilos of plastid, 400 grams |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |of trotyl, as well as 55 |Chechnya...) | |cartridges for portable grenade | | |launchers, hand grenades and |27 January 2004 Two Caches Located in Chechenya | |numerous detonators. Besides, |Yet another weapon and ammunition cache has been destroyed by | |the ammunition dump contained an|law enforcers near the village of Lakha-Varanda, Grozny | |automatic grenade launcher, five|district, Chechnya, according to the Northern Caucasus | |portable grenade launchers, six |Counter-Terrorist Regional Operations HQ. The hoard was | |machine guns, 17 submachine |discovered thanks to the information revealed by two | |guns, a snipers rifle and some |militants, who had been detained a while before. There had | |1500 cartridges. Federal forces |been stashed two RPG-26 antitank grenade launchers, three F-1 | |are currently identifying the |hand grenades, two UZRGM igniters, a Kenwood radio and an | |militants. |ammunition vest. The cache appeared to be mined so as soon as | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the scene was filmed, the weapons and ammo were blown up. The | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |other depot was discovered in the village of Aiti-Mokh, | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |Nozhai-Yurt district, reported the HQ, adding that it was | | |unearthed after militants in custody disclosed its | |Russian Interior Ministry sets |whereabouts. Almost a kilo and a half of TNT, detonators, more| |up special group to protect |than six hundred 5.45 and 7.62-mm cartridges and twenty-six | |Chechen pipelines |VOG-17 rounds lay their waiting for their time to come. | | |According to the HQ, the investigations are ongoing. | |The Russian Interior Ministry |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |sets up a special group for |Chechnya...) | |protecting oil pipelines in | | |Chechnya, the Russian Interior | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Ministry's Department for the | | |state protection of property | Russia - Chechnya | |told RIA Novosti. The group will| | |focus on operational search for | Chechen culture | |and elimination of criminal | | |groups engaged in unlawful oil |Literary Ties | |business, the head of the |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |department Mikhail Sukhodolski |literature | |said. Moreover, oil pipelines | | |will have special sensors, which|[685] | |will signal attempts of |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |criminals to approach them. The |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |group is made up of private |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |security agents and State |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |Traffic Inspection, transport |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |police and anti-economic crimes |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |officers. According to the |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |statement from the department, |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |in 2004 federal interior |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |officers discovered 56 oil |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |pipeline cutting-ins, destroyed |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |over 2,000 improvised oil |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |refineries and storage tanks, |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |detained 65 trucks carrying |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |stolen oil, prevented 96 oil |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |theft attempts, over 628 metric |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |tons of oil products were seized|dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |from illegal turnover. According|republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |to the federal Interior |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |Ministry, 119 criminal cases |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |were initiated. ([http:// |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) | Chechen tarditions | | | | | Chechen history |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | | |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | | | | |To Reader |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |traditions| music |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | | |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |a Russian territory which has |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |witnessed the most tragic events|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |over the past decade. The book |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |is the latest update on the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Chechen Republic . And this is |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |very important, since a lack of |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |fresh and accurate information |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |about events in Chechnya |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |generates many distorted |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |conceptions and rumours - both |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is| Chechen cuisine | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |elements in the republic are |traditions| music | |marginalised; and lastly, that |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russian power structures are |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |fighting the Chechen people, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |rather than armed bandit groups.|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |The reality, however, is that |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |only with the return of the |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |legitimate authorities are |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |villages and towns being |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |restored, children going to |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |school for the first time in |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |many years, and pensioners |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |receiving long-forgotten |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |referendum on a new Chechen |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |and presidential elections. |their own. | |These votes will be held, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |despite continued attempts by |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |being waged by Chechen | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |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