The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 259 | | | 31.01.05 | |Sappers in Chechnya check more | | |than 1,000 km of roads daily |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Sappers of Russian troops |31 January 2005 Murder of mufti solved in Chechnya | |operating in Chechnya check more|The murder of Mufti Shukhman Madagov of Chechnya's Vedeno | |than a thousand kilometres of |district has been solved, the Russian Interior Ministry's | |roads in Chechen towns and |local press center told Interfax on Monday. "An investigation | |villages daily to prevent bomb |revealed that Shukhman Madagov was killed by an active member | |attacks. In a most recent |of illegal armed formations named Bediyev and other militants | |indicent, they founds a |on August 29. Bediyev confessed to committing this crime," a | |makeshift bomb made from an |press center spokesman said. An examination is being made to | |anti-tank missile while checking|establish if Bediyev was involved in other crimes. Police | |one of the streets in Chechen |discovered five militant bases during sweep operations in a | |capital Grozny, a source at the |forest near the village of Dyshne-Vedeno, the spokesman said. | |headquarters of the federal |The bases contained food, sleeping bags, winter camouflage | |forces in Northern Caucasus told|uniforms, three grenade launcher rounds and four grenades. The| |Itar-Tass on Thursday. The |bases were destroyed an operation was launched to find the | |sappers thus prevented victims |militants. | |among the local population, the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |source said. He said a |Chechnya...) | |reconnaissance group of federal | | |troops found a base near the |31 January 2005 PACE Bureau disagrees to put Chechnya on next| |village of Serzhen-Yurt. It had |session agenda | |five dugouts with a capacity for|The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of | |five or six people each. Police |Europe has denied a PACE Political Affairs Committee proposal | |got down to establishing |that the "Chechen issue" be put on the agenda of the next | |identities of the people |Assembly session. The Bureau on Friday considered a document | |involved in building that base, |titled 'Declaration on the recent human rights violations in | |the source said. In addition, |the Chechen Republic', which was earlier adopted by the Legal | |two caches were uncovered in |Affairs and Human Rights Committee, and found that the | |forest arrears of the |conclusions made in it are not well-grounded and are based on | |Nozhai-Yurt district on |unconfirmed information, the secretariat of the Russian | |Wednesday. They contained two |delegation to PACE told Interfax on Saturday. | |kilos of TNT, 1.56 kilos of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |plastic explosives, 3,500 |Chechnya...) | |cartridges, 27 fragmentation | | |hand grenades, three mines and |31 January 2004 Four suspected militants aprested in Chechnya| |two projectiles for a grenade |Four suspected members of unlawful paramilitary units were | |launcher. The seized munitions |arrested in Chechnya, reports the joint press center of the | |were destroyed by an explosion. |regional command center for conducting the North Caucasian | |Another cache was found in the |counter-terrorist operation. They were arrested during | |village Komsomolskoye, the |passport checks in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and the | |Gudermes district. It contained |Shali district. According to the regional command center, a | |five hand grenades, six |man named Zelimkhan has already confessed, saying he had | |anti-personnel mines, two tanks |murdered a Shali-district resident named Beisultanov on order | |with aluminium powder and |from his ring-leader Musa Dzhabrailov in exchange for 3,000 | |saltpetre as well as a thousand |rubles, press-center people added. Another 25-year-old active | |cartridges. |member of an undercover gang from Yandy in the Achkhoi-Martan | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |district illegally acquired and stored two assault rifles, a | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= |tubular grenade launcher, two pistols and two home-made | |diaryrus&row=1] more...) |explosive devices, investigators say. Criminal proceedings | | |have already been instituted in this connection. | |Human Rights Commissioner of the|Law-enforcement officers are trying to find out whether the | |Council of Europe supportes |arrested bandits had committed any other crimes. | |roundtable on Chechnya |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | |Chechnya...) | |Human Rights Commissioner of the| | |Council of Europe Alvaro | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Gil-Robles welcomes the idea to | | |hold a roundtable on political | Russia - Chechnya | |settlement in Chechnya. This | | |idea was forwarded by Swiss | Chechen culture | |parliamentarian Andreas Gross | | |during the fall PACE session. |Literary Ties | |The Russian delegation supported|The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |this initiative on two |literature | |conditions: people using | | |terrorist methods and backing |[685] | |Chehcnya's independence should |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |not participate in the |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |roundtable. Head of the Russian |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |delegation Konstantin Kosachev |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |told RIA Novosti that the |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |roundtable would be held in |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |Moscow. Its date has not been |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |fixed yet. According to |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |preliminary data, it will be |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |held in early March. I come out |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |for any step towards peace, |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |Alvaro Gil-Robles told RIA |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |Novosti commenting on this |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |initiative. The sides need a |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |dialogue and I welcome this |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |initiative, he stressed. |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |Speaking about the European |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |parliamentarians' excessive |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |critics of the human rights |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |problem in Russia Mr. Gil-Robles|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |said that he criticized Russia |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |to improve the situation. I | | |criticize everyone, not only | Chechen tarditions | |Russia because this is my job, | | |he noted. ([http:// |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |lng=eng] more...) |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | | | | | Chechen history |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | | |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | | |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |To Reader |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |traditions| music |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| | |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |a Russian territory which has |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |witnessed the most tragic events|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |over the past decade. The book |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |is the latest update on the |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Chechen Republic . And this is |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |very important, since a lack of |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya | Chechen cuisine | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |within and outside Russia . For |traditions| music | |example, that Chechen society is|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |allegedly inherently alien to |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Russia , that pro-Russian |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |elements in the republic are |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |marginalised; and lastly, that |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Russian power structures are |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |fighting the Chechen people, |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |rather than armed bandit groups.|written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |The reality, however, is that |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |only with the return of the |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |legitimate authorities are |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |villages and towns being |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |restored, children going to |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |school for the first time in |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |many years, and pensioners |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |receiving long-forgotten |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |their own. | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |referendum on a new Chechen |eng] in detail ...) | |constitution, and parliamentary | | |and presidential elections. | - | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by |## | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |normalisation in the republic, | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | | |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