The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 265 | | | 22.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |22 February 2005 A Page of the Chechen Republics web-site | |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |60th Victory Anniversary | |took part in the second |The Education Ministry of the Chechen Republic took part in an| |International festival of |all-Russia contest designated Alignment on the Victory and | |non-commercial internet |dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great | |projects, which was held from |Patriotic war. It was held on the initative of several federal| |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|ministries, including Russias Ministry of Education and | |Russia and sponsored by the |Sciences. In keeping with the terms of action, each of Russias| |Federation Union, the State |regions posted its own web-page on the common Internet-site | |Duma, the Moscow City |The 60th Victory Anniversary which provide reading and visual | |Government. Taking part in it |material on the role of each region in World War Two. Ganga | |were state, commercial and |Elmurzayeva, Chechen deputy minister of education led the | |public organizations. The |effort in the Chechen Republic to prepare this site. In her | |festival is aimed at spreading |words, such work was undertaken by the ministry for the first | |Russias non-commercial internet |time. Therefore, the web-site creators therefore came up | |space and supporting youth |against certain problems. But employees of Groznys Central | |initiatives dealing with social |Library, the Veterans Council and the United Museum | |problems, reducing extremist |Directorate came to their rescue. A great input in this effort| |tendencies in our society and |also came from the Chechen Committee on Youth Issues, as well | |strengthening international |as from departments of district education and schools. A great| |ties. More than 3,000 people |wealth of material was obtained and processed. As a result on | |representing 468 data resource |February 15, 2005 the Chechen Republics web-page was posted on| |managers from Russia, the |the site www.ravnenie-na-pobedu.ru This is an Encyclopedia for| |Commonwealth countries, the |Schoolchildren of sorts, dedicated to the role of various | |Baltic states and other foreign |Russian regions in World War Two. The page dedicated to the | |countries participated in the |Chechen Republic, contains several sections, including an | |festival in 2004. The final |address by the Chechen President, Alu Alkhanov to veterans and| |program of the festival took |the youth furthermore reference material on Chechnya as a | |place in Moscow from January 18 |member of the Russian Federation, a story of the Chechen | |through January 23, 2005 and it |Republics role in the Great Patriotic War and its war | |featured seminars, instruction |veterans, primarily Heroes of the Soviet Union. The conclusive| |and master-classes with leading |section is taken up by reminiscences of the former combatants | |IT experts. The festival |themselves. Russias Ministry of education and sciences has | |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |highly appraised the efforts of those who created the Chechen | |winner in the Best Information |Republics web-page. | |Regional Project nomination. On |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |January 20 at a ceremony in the |Chechnya...) | |Smaller Hall of Russias | | |Federation Union, an official of|21 February 2005 Major terror attack prevented in Ingushetia | |the information policy committee|A major terror attack was prevented in Ingushetia (a North | |of the Federation Union |Caucasus republic neighboring Chechnya) near the Khalima cafe,| |presented it with an honorary |a spokesman for the Regional Operative Headquarters (ROH) in | |diploma. Video ... |charge of the counter-terrorist operation in the North | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Caucasus told RIA Novosti. "Law enforcers spotted an | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |improvised explosive device planted in a drain pipe under the | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |federal road Kavkaz near the Khalima cafe in the outskirts of | | |the village of Barsuki in the Nazran district. The device | |New TB clinic opens in Chechnya |contained three rounds for the RPG grenade-launcher and an F-1| | |hand grenade," the spokesman said. According to him, | |A new tuberculosis clinic has |investigators established that the explosive device had been | |opened in the Chechen town of |made and planted by members of the bandit group led by Umarov.| |Shali. This is the fourth such |"They planned to blow it up this weekend when the cafe had the| |clinic in the republic. It was |most visitors," he stressed. In addition, law enforcers | |rebuild as part of a federal |detected an arms cache hidden in the western outskirts of | |programme designed to help |Nazran. "The militants had set up an arms cache in the woods | |restore Chechnyas health care |near the Alkhanchur canal. The cache contained about 2,000 | |system. The clinic will service |rounds of 5.45 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, F-1 hand grenades | |the Shali and other districts of|and five 200g TNT blocks," the ROH spokesperson said. | |the republic. The head of the |Tentatively, investigators assume that the cache had also been| |clinic, Aset Israilova, told |set up by the militants from the bandit group led | |Itar-Tass on Friday, Modern |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |equipment that can detect the |Chechnya...) | |disease at early stages was | | |provided by the international |21 February 2004 Chechen police increasing security measures | |humanitarian organisation |The Chechen police are stepping up security at utilities and | |Medecins Sans Frontieres. The |government buildings, Chechen Interior Ministry press | |clinic can accommodate more than|secretary Ruslan Atsayev told Interfax. "Chechen Interior | |60 people. According to |Minister Ruslan Alkhanov has issued a decree under which all | |Israilova, the restoration of |the Interior Ministry personnel will be put on alert from | |the clinic is very important for|February 18-25. These measures have been taken in the run-up | |Chechnya where the number of |to the celebration of Homeland Defender Day and the | |tuberculosis cases has trebled, |anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people to | |including among children, in the|Siberia and Central Asia on February 23," Atsayev said. | |last 10 years. ([http:// |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Chechnya...) | |lng=eng] more...) | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | Chechen history | | | | Russia - Chechnya | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| | | | Chechen culture | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Literary Ties | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |traditions| music |literature | | | | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|[685] | |a Russian territory which has |The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |witnessed the most tragic events|writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |over the past decade. The book |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |is the latest update on the |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |Chechen Republic . And this is |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |very important, since a lack of |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |fresh and accurate information |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |about events in Chechnya |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |generates many distorted |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |conceptions and rumours - both |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |within and outside Russia . For |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |example, that Chechen society is|Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |allegedly inherently alien to |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |Russia , that pro-Russian |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |elements in the republic are |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |marginalised; and lastly, that |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |Russian power structures are |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |fighting the Chechen people, |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |rather than armed bandit groups.|by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |The reality, however, is that |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |only with the return of the |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being | Chechen tarditions | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |many years, and pensioners |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |receiving long-forgotten |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth | | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |referendum on a new Chechen |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |constitution, and parliamentary |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |and presidential elections. |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |These votes will be held, |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |despite continued attempts by |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |bandit groups and their leaders |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |to scupper the process of |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |normalisation in the republic, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |the latest terrorist act being |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |the bombing of the republican |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |government building. The war |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |being waged by Chechen |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |separatists against federal |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |forces and more often than not |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |against their own co-citizens is|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | Chechen cuisine | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |international terrorism on the |traditions| music | |fundamental principles of modern|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |civilisation. The facts show |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |that being a part of the Russian|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Federation in no way threatens |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |identity, the free use of its |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |own language, and preaching |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |during de facto "independence" |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |from Russia that the Chechen |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |people suffered a humanitarian |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |trade and plundering came to |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |form the economic basis of the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |new regime, while chaos and war |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |became the form of its political|their own. | |existence. We want to emphasise |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |once more: Chechnya is part of |eng] in detail ...) | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | - | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical |## | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |development would signify the | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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