The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 263 | | | 16.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |16 February 2005 Mobile phones help Chechens spread the word | |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |In the half-ruined Chechen capital, a vast majority of | |took part in the second |inhabitants still consider running water and standard | |International festival of |telephone lines a luxury, and few can afford a mobile phone. | |non-commercial internet |However, mobile phone sales are on a steady rise. Grozny's | |projects, which was held from |street vendors and kiosks had been sporting the logo of | |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|Russia's Megafon, Chechnya's sole mobile operator, since the | |Russia and sponsored by the |republic's mobile network was launched last summer in a bid to| |Federation Union, the State |prove the war-torn region was on its way to "normalisation." | |Duma, the Moscow City |"This is the latest fashion. But it is still too early to say | |Government. Taking part in it |if one could really freely use them," said Ruslan, a biology | |were state, commercial and |professor who joined Chechnya's 62,000 mobile users six months| |public organizations. The |ago. "We have been an off-limits zone for a long time, and | |festival is aimed at spreading |that left its traces," he said, in a reference to habitual | |Russias non-commercial internet |insecurity of this North Caucasus republic that had, since | |space and supporting youth |1999, been subject to an "anti-terrorist campaign." It was at | |initiatives dealing with social |the beginning of that second war that Grozny was bombed down | |problems, reducing extremist |to ruins, and the majority of telephone relays had been | |tendencies in our society and |destroyed. That signaled years of isolation for the civilian | |strengthening international |population, while authorities feared that the network, which | |ties. More than 3,000 people |then passed into military hands, could be used by rebel | |representing 468 data resource |groups. Today mobile phones are accessible to all, without a | |managers from Russia, the |prior registration with the FSB security service - unlike in | |Commonwealth countries, the |2003, when the first civilian users, primarily members of the | |Baltic states and other foreign |pro-Russian administration, had to apply for authorisation. As| |countries participated in the |for whether the network is tapped, the spokesman for | |festival in 2004. The final |Mobikom-Kavkaz -- Megafon's operator in the region -- would | |program of the festival took |not comment. "This is secret information," Yury Grechko said. | |place in Moscow from January 18 |Locals in their turn avoid mentioning names or the rendezvous | |through January 23, 2005 and it |locations in their mobile conversations -- just in case. | |featured seminars, instruction |Ruslan too confessed he did not feel himself completely free | |and master-classes with leading |of the shadow -- his SIM card does not work anywhere but | |IT experts. The festival |Chechnya. That is because allowing Chechen telephones to | |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |operate in the whole of Russia is subject to "authorisation by| |winner in the Best Information |the secret services," said Grechko of Mobikom-Kavkaz, whose | |Regional Project nomination. On |office is lodged in Russia's southern city of Krasnodar. | |January 20 at a ceremony in the |Chechen mobile phones would not work even in the neighboring | |Smaller Hall of Russias |republic of Ingushetia, while those bought in other regions do| |Federation Union, an official of|not function in Chechnya. "They pretend we are like the other | |the information policy committee|Russian regions, but we cannot use our phones anywhere but | |of the Federation Union |here! We are still the exception," said Fatima, who frequently| |presented it with an honorary |travels between Chechnya and Ingushetia, where she lives. | |diploma. Video ... |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya...) | |index.php?section=newsarceng& | | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |16 February 2005 S.Ivanov: OSCE mission in the North Caucasus| | |was not effective | |Suspected terrorist detained in |"We believe that the OSCE mission was not effective. We have | |Chechnya |evidence that terrorists crossed Russian borders while the | | |mission was under way," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov| |A suspected militant has been |stated during the Conference on security policy in Munich. At | |detained in Chechnya, a law |the same time, he underlined that Russia was not against joint| |enforcement source told Interfax|efforts in the Caucasus and joint monitoring of the borders. | |on Monday. The detainee is |The Russian defense minister also attracted attention of the | |suspected of involvement in the |participants of the conference in Munich to the fact that some| |murder of Khasmagomed Umalatov, |European countries issued visas to terrorists. "We are advised| |the mufti of Urus-Martan, acts |to disregard the fact that some European countries accept and | |of terrorism against federal |hide international terrorists and issue visas to them without | |troops and armed assaults on |any complications," the minister stated. "We consider such | |local residents of the |development to be rather strange and unacceptable," Mr. Ivanov| |Urus-Martan district. ([http:// |stressed. The minister also told the participants of the | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |conference that often the global community unreasonably "calls| |lng=eng] more...) |Chechen terrorists 'rebels'." Mr. Ivanov presented data | | |gathered by Russian security-related services indicating that | | Chechen history |currently about 150-200 foreign mercenaries operate on the | | |territory of the North Caucasus. | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | |Chechnya...) | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |16 February 2004 Several terrorist attacks prevented in | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechnya | |traditions| music |Sappers have prevented several terrorist attacks in the | | |Itum-Kale district of Chechnya. Sappers neutralized three | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|improvised explosive devices planted on the road leading from | |a Russian territory which has |Itum-Kale to Bugaroi, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman | |witnessed the most tragic events|Ruslan Atsayev told Interfax on Tuesday. In addition, several | |over the past decade. The book |cashes of arms and ammunition were seized in Vedeno, | |is the latest update on the |Urus-Martan and other districts of Chechnya, as well as in the| |Chechen Republic . And this is |capital of Grozny. | |very important, since a lack of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |fresh and accurate information |Chechnya...) | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For | Russia - Chechnya | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to | Chechen culture | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are |Literary Ties | |marginalised; and lastly, that |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |Russian power structures are |literature | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.|[685] | |The reality, however, is that |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |only with the return of the |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |legitimate authorities are |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |villages and towns being |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |restored, children going to |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |school for the first time in |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |many years, and pensioners |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |receiving long-forgotten |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |referendum on a new Chechen |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |constitution, and parliamentary |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |and presidential elections. |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |These votes will be held, |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |despite continued attempts by |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |bandit groups and their leaders |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |to scupper the process of |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |normalisation in the republic, |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |the latest terrorist act being |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |the bombing of the republican |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |government building. The war |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal | Chechen tarditions | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |by no means a "national |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |liberation struggle of the |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |international terrorism on the |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |fundamental principles of modern|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |civilisation. The facts show |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |that being a part of the Russian|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Federation in no way threatens |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |identity, the free use of its |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |own language, and preaching |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |during de facto "independence" |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |from Russia that the Chechen |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |people suffered a humanitarian |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |tragedy on an unprecedented |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |trade and plundering came to |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war | Chechen cuisine | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |once more: Chechnya is part of |traditions| music | |Russia , geographically, |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |politically and |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |civilisation-wise. So a |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |hypothetical triumph of radical |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Islamism on its territory would |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |be anti-historical. Such a |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |development would signify the |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |establishment in the midst of |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |with all ensuing consequences |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |for the international community.|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |The corporate author - |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |journalists of the Russian |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Information Agency Novosti - |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |have attempted to be as brief as|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |possible on providing answers to|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |the most-often aked questions |their own. | |(above all posed by a foreign |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |audience) about the Chechen |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |another way are involved in | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |The Construction Directorate | | |maintains its active effort in | | |Chechnya | | | | | |[3175] The Federal Construction | | |agency singed an agreement with | | |the Chechen government to | | |transfer the function of state | | |contracts to the Republic. In | | |fact, this process began last | | |year. The Chechen government | | |thus assumes overall control | | |over the construction of sites | | |in Minutka Square, Zhukov and | | |Dudayev avenues, as well as two | | |schools, nursery. All the rest | | |sites begun in 2001, still | | |unfinished due to lack of | | |financing, will be left to the | | |Federal State enterprise the | | |Chechen Construction and | | |Restoration Directorate. They | | |will carry on with construction | | |and assembly work. The state | | |contractors, including Gosstroy,| | |Rosobrazovaniye, Rossport, | | |Roszdrav, Minselkhoz, Industry | | |Ministry and many others, have | | |commissioned more than 200 | | |infrastructure objects. These | | |sites have been certified by | | |state commissions and have been | | |commissioned to local | | |authorities. | | |([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