The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 264 | | | 18.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |18 February 2005 Arms cache found near railroad track in | |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |Dagestan | |took part in the second |An arms cache was found near the railroad track in the | |International festival of |Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, a source in the Khasavyurt | |non-commercial internet |station's police department told Interfax on Thursday. The | |projects, which was held from |police found a shoulder-held grenade launcher, ammunition, | |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|gunpowder and bomb components, the source said. OMON special | |Russia and sponsored by the |task forces are confiscating videocassettes and CDs with | |Federation Union, the State |terrorist act recordings at Chechen marketplaces. Hundreds of | |Duma, the Moscow City |such videocassettes and CDs were confiscated at the central | |Government. Taking part in it |marketplace of Grozny over the past day alone, commander of | |were state, commercial and |the Chechen Interior Ministry's OMON special task unit Artur | |public organizations. The |Akhmadov told Interfax. | |festival is aimed at spreading |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Russias non-commercial internet |Chechnya...) | |space and supporting youth | | |initiatives dealing with social |17 February 2005 Council of Europe will not open Chechnya | |problems, reducing extremist |office | |tendencies in our society and |"We are not going to open an office in Chechnya again," | |strengthening international |Council of Europe Secretary General Terri Davis said at a news| |ties. More than 3,000 people |conference. He recalled that the CE once had an office in | |representing 468 data resource |Chechnya and closed it two years ago. Mr. Davis also drew the | |managers from Russia, the |attention of journalists to the round table on Chechnya slated| |Commonwealth countries, the |for late March. He noted meeting would be in round-table | |Baltic states and other foreign |format and that it was originally to be held in Grozny, but | |countries participated in the |then cancelled. The CE wanted to hold the meeting "somewhere | |festival in 2004. The final |in between Moscow and Strasbourg and then opted for the | |program of the festival took |former," he said. The Chechnya round-table idea was advanced | |place in Moscow from January 18 |at the PACE fall 2004 session. The Russian delegation has | |through January 23, 2005 and it |insisted that participants not be people engaged in terrorism | |featured seminars, instruction |or those who don't recognize Russia's territorial integrity. | |and master-classes with leading |Mr. Davis also emphasized that the CE condemns terrorism in | |IT experts. The festival |any form and that he advocates Russia's territorial integrity.| |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |winner in the Best Information |Chechnya...) | |Regional Project nomination. On | | |January 20 at a ceremony in the |17 February 2004 Two active members of armed groups captured,| |Smaller Hall of Russias |arms caches found in Chechnya | |Federation Union, an official of|Two active members of armed groups have been detained in | |the information policy committee|Chechnya on Tuesday. A spokesman at the North Caucasus | |of the Federation Union |Regional Operational Staff told Itar-Tass that one militant | |presented it with an honorary |had taken training at a camp of Arab mercenary Khattab in the | |diploma. Video ... |village of Serzhen-Yurt. His involvement in many kidnaps of | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |civilians has been established. A mobile unit of the Russian | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Interior Ministry in Chechnya also detained a 20-year-old | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |resident of Baitarki. He had been on a federal wanted list for| | |grave crimes. The two bandits were placed in a detention | |Separatists can't be part of |prison. The investigation is underway. Federal troops have | |Chechen settlement - |spotted, on information from locals, an arms cache | |T.Dzhabrailov |Chernorechye suburb of Grozny. It contained 300 grammas of | | |plastid, two Kenwood radios, an army grenade, cartridges and | |A final settlement will be |cables for homemade explosive devices. Police have found | |achieved in Chechnya without the|another arms dump in a Chechnya-bordering area of Dagestan. An| |involvement of separatist leader|earlier detained militant showed its place. The dump contained| |Aslan Maskhadov or his foreign |a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun, a gas pistol with a | |emissaries, Chechen State |silencer remade into a firearm, rounds of ammunition for small| |Council Chairman Taus |arms and a homemade bomb made of 300 grammas of TNT and a | |Dzhabrailov told Interfax on |clock. It has been ascertained that the Kalashnikov rifle had | |Wednesday. "The settlement of |been seized when bandits took hostage the family of a head of | |the situation the republic, |the Kurchaloi district of Chechnya. | |including political, is in its |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |final stage and nobody is asking|Chechnya...) | |their opinion," Dzhabrailov | | |said. This was his commentary on| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |an article that Maskhadov's | | |envoy Akhmed Zakayev published | Russia - Chechnya | |in a Western newspaper, in which| | |he claimed that armed resistance| Chechen culture | |has not been crushed and the | | |recent cease-fire declared by |Literary Ties | |Maskhadov is a chance for peace |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |in Chechnya. ([http:// |literature | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) |[685] | | |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | | Chechen history |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | | |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | | |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |To Reader |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |traditions| music |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | | |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |a Russian territory which has |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |witnessed the most tragic events|opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |over the past decade. The book |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |is the latest update on the |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |Chechen Republic . And this is |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |very important, since a lack of |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |fresh and accurate information |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |about events in Chechnya |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |generates many distorted |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |conceptions and rumours - both |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is| Chechen tarditions | |allegedly inherently alien to | | |Russia , that pro-Russian |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |elements in the republic are |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |Russian power structures are | | |fighting the Chechen people, |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |rather than armed bandit groups.|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |The reality, however, is that |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |only with the return of the |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |legitimate authorities are |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |villages and towns being |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |restored, children going to |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |school for the first time in |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |many years, and pensioners |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |receiving long-forgotten |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |referendum on a new Chechen |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |constitution, and parliamentary |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |and presidential elections. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |These votes will be held, |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |despite continued attempts by | | |bandit groups and their leaders | Chechen cuisine | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |the latest terrorist act being |traditions| music | |the bombing of the republican |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |government building. The war |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |being waged by Chechen |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |separatists against federal |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |forces and more often than not |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |against their own co-citizens is|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |by no means a "national |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |liberation struggle of the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Chechen people", but an episode |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |in the overall offensive by |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |international terrorism on the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |fundamental principles of modern|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |civilisation. The facts show |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |that being a part of the Russian|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Federation in no way threatens |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |identity, the free use of its |their own. | |own language, and preaching |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |form the economic basis of the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |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