The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 261 | | | 07.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |05 February 2005 UN humanitarian service in Chechnya | |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |In January officials of the UN humanitarian service visited | |took part in the second |Chechnya to study the humanitarian situation as well as to get| |International festival of |acquainted with human rights position. At their request there | |non-commercial internet |was a meeting with the prime minister of Chechnya, Sergei | |projects, which was held from |Abramov at which urgent issues concerning details about the | |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|sitting of the UN humanitarian services in the republic were | |Russia and sponsored by the |examined. At the moment the offices and technical service of | |Federation Union, the State |the UN organ are in other parts of North Caucasus. The | |Duma, the Moscow City |chairman of the Chechen committee on human rights of Russian | |Government. Taking part in it |nationals who is also the chairman of the republican legal | |were state, commercial and |Council, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, represented the Chechen human | |public organizations. The |rights bodies at the meeting. Speaking he said that there were| |festival is aimed at spreading |examples of the effectiveness of the UN humanitarian service | |Russias non-commercial internet |in different conflict regions and hot spots in the world but | |space and supporting youth |that in Chechnya the UN organs work is not visible. There are | |initiatives dealing with social |favourable conditions for such activity in Chechnya, said Mr. | |problems, reducing extremist |Nukhazhiyev. Security concerns cannot prevent such activity | |tendencies in our society and |for even during the most difficult period, 3 to 4 years ago, | |strengthening international |UN experts worked successfully in the republic and since then | |ties. More than 3,000 people |the situation in Chechnya has significantly stabilized. From | |representing 468 data resource |the economic angle a permanent presence of UN services could | |managers from Russia, the |be a good signal for foreign investors. Mr. Nukhazhiyev has | |Commonwealth countries, the |said that on visiting some regions, places for the temporary | |Baltic states and other foreign |settlement of displaced people, schools and hospitals the UN | |countries participated in the |officials saw the positive changes in Chechnya and that there | |festival in 2004. The final |is free movement. They moved about in the republic without | |program of the festival took |armed escort. They were satisfied with what they saw and | |place in Moscow from January 18 |talked about it at the meeting with the head of government, in| |through January 23, 2005 and it |talks with Russian and foreign journalists. According to Nurdi| |featured seminars, instruction |Nukhazhiyev the UN officials were convinced about the need to | |and master-classes with leading |enlarge the humanitarian activities of international | |IT experts. The festival |organizations precisely in Chechnya, promising to brief UN | |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |chiefs about all they had seen as well as their own thinking | |winner in the Best Information |about the need to broaden the humanitarian services in | |Regional Project nomination. On |Chechnya. | |January 20 at a ceremony in the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Smaller Hall of Russias |Chechnya...) | |Federation Union, an official of| | |the information policy committee|04 February 2005 D.Kozak: Maskhadov orders ceasefire. | |of the Federation Union |Goodwill act? | |presented it with an honorary |Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader, has ordered | |diploma. Video ... |unilateral cessation of combat operations. He actually means | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |the move to remind the public of his existence, holds Dmitri | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Kozak, presidential envoy plenipotentiary to the Southern | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |federal district. Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev, are alleged to| | |have ordered combat operations suspended to February 22 as a | |A local man had helped law |goodwill act. The information comes from Chechen separatist | |enforcers to find an arms cache |web sites-Kavkaz-Center and Chechenpress. "Maskhadov has often| | |made such attempts. In fact, he no longer has the say-so in | |ROH reported that a local man |Chechnya, so we don't pay too much attention to his move. To | |had helped law enforcers to find|all appearances, he just doesn't want to go into oblivion," | |an arms cache. "A shepherd, who |said Mr. Kozak. He was addressing newsmen during a break in a | |is a resident of the village of |business development conference in district South, underway in| |Alkhan-Kala, informed law |Volgograd. The North Caucasian regional anti-terror HQ | |enforcers that he had seen a few|previously denied the authenticity of Maskhadov's and | |strangers in the vicinity of the|Basayev's statements. "Whatever references to the bandit | |village on the previous |underground chieftains are false, and the statements fruit of | |morning," RIA Novosti's source |Movladi Udugov's imagination," the HQ says in a press release.| |said. According to the shepherd,|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |he "grew suspicious of them |Chechnya...) | |hiding in the tree belt area and| | |stashing something into the |04 February 2004 T.Dzhabrailov: Maskhadov will surrender if | |ground". At the place indicated,|Basayev is dead | |law enforcers found an arms |Rumors about the death of separatist leader Shamil Basayev are| |cache containing a rocket |being circulated in Chechnya, but this information will be | |launcher with ammunition, a hand|confirmed only after law enforcement agencies produce evidence| |grenade, two artillery rounds |proving his death, the republic's State Council Chairman Taus | |and grenades for underbarrel |Dzhabrailov told Interfax by phone on Friday. "Rumors about | |grenade launchers, doctored to |Basayev's death are being spread in Chechnya. But only law | |be used in IEDs, three |enforcement agencies can confirm his death by showing this | |antipersonnel mines and a lot of|man's body or some video tapes to the public," Dzhabrailov | |small-arms ammunition. A |said. Basayev's death would deliver a blow to all remaining | |35-year-old militant was |guerrilla groups in Chechnya, he said. "He is such a major | |arrested in the Shelkovskoy |figure that in the event of his death, any vigorous terrorist | |District. He is a member of the |activities on the territory of the republic or outside it will| |gang led by Lecha Eskiyev, a |be out of the question. If Basayev's death is confirmed, | |henchman of terrorist Shamil |[separatist leader] Aslan Maskhadov will take rapid steps to | |Basayev. According to a ROH |search for various opportunities to surrender to law | |spokesman, the detained militant|enforcement agencies," the official said. | |confessed that, while with his |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |gang, he had been to the |Chechnya...) | |fortified militant hideouts in | | |the woods situated near two | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |villages of the Shelkovskoy | | |District. "The detainee has | Russia - Chechnya | |named sidekicks and accomplices | | |of Eskiyev. Law enforcers are | Chechen culture | |searching for the rest of | | |Eskiyev's gang," the officer |Literary Ties | |said. ([http:// |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |literature | |lng=eng] more...) | | | |[685] | | Chechen history |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | | |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | | |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |To Reader |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |traditions| music |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | | |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |a Russian territory which has |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |over the past decade. The book |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |is the latest update on the |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |Chechen Republic . And this is |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |very important, since a lack of |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |fresh and accurate information |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |about events in Chechnya |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |generates many distorted |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |conceptions and rumours - both |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |within and outside Russia . For |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to | Chechen tarditions | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |Russian power structures are |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |The reality, however, is that |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |only with the return of the |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |legitimate authorities are |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |villages and towns being |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |restored, children going to |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |school for the first time in |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |many years, and pensioners |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |receiving long-forgotten |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |referendum on a new Chechen |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |constitution, and parliamentary |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |and presidential elections. |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |These votes will be held, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |despite continued attempts by |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of | Chechen cuisine | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |the bombing of the republican |traditions| music | |government building. The war |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |being waged by Chechen |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |separatists against federal |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |forces and more often than not |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |against their own co-citizens is|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |by no means a "national |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |liberation struggle of the |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Chechen people", but an episode |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |in the overall offensive by |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |international terrorism on the |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |fundamental principles of modern|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |civilisation. The facts show |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |that being a part of the Russian|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Federation in no way threatens |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |identity, the free use of its |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |own language, and preaching |their own. | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |during de facto "independence" |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |new regime, while chaos and war | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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