The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 266 | | | 24.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |24 February 2005 Aslakhanov predicts increase in militant | |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |activity in spring | |took part in the second |Chechen paramilitaries will build up activity in spring and | |International festival of |summer, warns Aslanbek Aslakhanov, President Vladimir Putin's | |non-commercial internet |adviser. "We must be ready to prevent terror acts," he said to| |projects, which was held from |a news conference in Moscow today. Mr. Aslakhanov, however, | |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|does not think the latest North Caucasian armed clashes were | |Russia and sponsored by the |due to banditry building up activities or getting new blood-he| |Federation Union, the State |tracks them down to law enforcement bodies increasing efforts | |Duma, the Moscow City |against rebel gangs: "What might be regarded as an | |Government. Taking part in it |exacerbation of tensions is really due to law enforcement | |were state, commercial and |agencies getting more active. They have become truly | |public organizations. The |aggressive, in the good sense." The kidnapping rate is sliding| |festival is aimed at spreading |down in Chechnya, though the presidential adviser "cannot say | |Russias non-commercial internet |kidnaps have stopped altogether, and rights activists have no | |space and supporting youth |leg to stand on with their criticisms". To prove the point, | |initiatives dealing with social |Mr. Aslakhanov quoted one of the latest instances as | |problems, reducing extremist |unidentified armed men took away six or even eight people this| |tendencies in our society and |very morning from his native village, Novye Ataghi in the | |strengthening international |Shali District. The kidnapped people's whereabouts are | |ties. More than 3,000 people |unknown. It takes a large-scale federal crime prevention | |representing 468 data resource |program to fight terrorism, stressed Mr. Aslakhanov. Russia | |managers from Russia, the |must streamline its legislation for law enforcement to rely | |Commonwealth countries, the |on. In particular, this country needs a law to protect | |Baltic states and other foreign |officers' families, and ensure their social welfare. There is | |countries participated in the |another top priority-to put an end to local authorities' | |festival in 2004. The final |arbitrary action as they are victimizing the population. | |program of the festival took |President Putin's adviser also called to instill intolerance | |place in Moscow from January 18 |of terrorists in the younger generation. "We must bring up | |through January 23, 2005 and it |kids to develop their allergy to, and abhorrence of violence."| |featured seminars, instruction |Mr. Aslakhanov is direly opposed to the idea of getting to the| |and master-classes with leading |negotiation table with Chechen separatist leader Aslan | |IT experts. The festival |Maskhadov. "I don't think anyone has whatever moral right to | |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |call for peace talks with Maskhadov, what with recent terror | |winner in the Best Information |acts." As the most crying instance, he referred to last | |Regional Project nomination. On |autumn's heinous hostage taking in a Beslan school, September | |January 20 at a ceremony in the |1-3. Shamil Basayev, notorious terrorist chieftain and | |Smaller Hall of Russias |Maskhadov's right-hand man, has owned up masterminding the | |Federation Union, an official of|North Osset outrage. Aslan Maskhadov claims to be independent | |the information policy committee|Ichkeria's president. If he really has anything in control, he| |of the Federation Union |ought to have prevented the appalling violent acts, stressed | |presented it with an honorary |Aslanbek Aslakhanov. | |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...) |24 February 2005 Aslakhanov predicts increase in militant | | |activity in spring | |Strasbourg to host roundtable on|Chechen paramilitaries will build up activity in spring and | |Chechen problems |summer, warns Aslanbek Aslakhanov, President Vladimir Putin's | | |adviser. "We must be ready to prevent terror acts," he said to| |A roundtable on Chechen problems|a news conference in Moscow today. Mr. Aslakhanov, however, | |organized by the political |does not think the latest North Caucasian armed clashes were | |commission of the Parliamentary |due to banditry building up activities or getting new blood-he| |Assembly of the Council of |tracks them down to law enforcement bodies increasing efforts | |Europe will take place in the |against rebel gangs: "What might be regarded as an | |Council of Europe's headquarters|exacerbation of tensions is really due to law enforcement | |in Strasbourg on March 21, |agencies getting more active. They have become truly | |spokesmen for the Palace of |aggressive, in the good sense." The kidnapping rate is sliding| |Europe in Strasbourg told RIA |down in Chechnya, though the presidential adviser "cannot say | |Novosti. Representatives of |kidnaps have stopped altogether, and rights activists have no | |different political parties, |leg to stand on with their criticisms". To prove the point, | |public organizations and |Mr. Aslakhanov quoted one of the latest instances as | |movements of Chechnya have been |unidentified armed men took away six or even eight people this| |invited to attend the roundtable|very morning from his native village, Novye Ataghi in the | |discussion. In compliance with |Shali District. The kidnapped people's whereabouts are | |the PACE resolution adopted in |unknown. It takes a large-scale federal crime prevention | |October 2004, those attending |program to fight terrorism, stressed Mr. Aslakhanov. Russia | |the roundtable should admit |must streamline its legislation for law enforcement to rely | |Russia's territorial integrity |on. In particular, this country needs a law to protect | |and condemn terrorism as a means|officers' families, and ensure their social welfare. There is | |to achieve their goals. Chechen |another top priority-to put an end to local authorities' | |President Alu Alkhanov, Russian |arbitrary action as they are victimizing the population. | |ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and |President Putin's adviser also called to instill intolerance | |Russian President's authorized |of terrorists in the younger generation. "We must bring up | |representative in the Southern |kids to develop their allergy to, and abhorrence of violence."| |Federal District Dmitry Kozak |Mr. Aslakhanov is direly opposed to the idea of getting to the| |are expected to attend the |negotiation table with Chechen separatist leader Aslan | |forum. According to Swiss |Maskhadov. "I don't think anyone has whatever moral right to | |parliamentarian, cochairman of |call for peace talks with Maskhadov, what with recent terror | |the temporary working group for |acts." As the most crying instance, he referred to last | |the roundtable Andreas Gross, |autumn's heinous hostage taking in a Beslan school, September | |former PACE rapporteur for |1-3. Shamil Basayev, notorious terrorist chieftain and | |Chechnya, the purpose of the |Maskhadov's right-hand man, has owned up masterminding the | |event is to expand the basis of |North Osset outrage. Aslan Maskhadov claims to be independent | |the dialogue aimed at the |Ichkeria's president. If he really has anything in control, he| |political settlement in the |ought to have prevented the appalling violent acts, stressed | |Chechen Republic. Earlier it was|Aslanbek Aslakhanov. | |planned to hold the roundtable |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |in Moscow. ([http:// |Chechnya...) | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) |24 February 2004 Terrorist attack prevented in Chechnya | | |Law enforcers have prevented a major terrorist attack in | | Chechen history |Chechnya's Kurchaloi district. A landmine was discovered by | | |the side of a highway leading to the village of Tsatsan-Yurt. | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|A special police battalion killed two militants in the | | |Gudermes district, while carrying out a reconnaissance | |To Reader |operation, the local police department told Interfax on | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Thursday. A law enforcement source said one of the dead | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||militants is believed to be an Armenian citizen. | |traditions| music |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | |Chechnya...) | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,| | |a Russian territory which has | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book | Russia - Chechnya | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is | Chechen culture | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information |Literary Ties | |about events in Chechnya |The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | |generates many distorted |literature | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |[685] | |example, that Chechen society is|The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |allegedly inherently alien to |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | |Russia , that pro-Russian |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |elements in the republic are |concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |marginalised; and lastly, that |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |Russian power structures are |A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |fighting the Chechen people, |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |The reality, however, is that |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |only with the return of the |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |legitimate authorities are |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |villages and towns being |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |restored, children going to |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |school for the first time in |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |many years, and pensioners |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |receiving long-forgotten |exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |referendum on a new Chechen |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |constitution, and parliamentary |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |and presidential elections. |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |These votes will be held, | | |despite continued attempts by | Chechen tarditions | |bandit groups and their leaders | | |to scupper the process of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |normalisation in the republic, |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |the latest terrorist act being |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |being waged by Chechen |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |separatists against federal |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |forces and more often than not |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |against their own co-citizens is|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |by no means a "national |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |liberation struggle of the |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Chechen people", but an episode |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |in the overall offensive by |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |international terrorism on the |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |fundamental principles of modern|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |civilisation. The facts show |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |that being a part of the Russian|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Federation in no way threatens |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |identity, the free use of its |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | Chechen cuisine | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |people suffered a humanitarian |traditions| music | |tragedy on an unprecedented |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |trade and plundering came to |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |form the economic basis of the |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |new regime, while chaos and war |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |became the form of its political|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |existence. We want to emphasise |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |once more: Chechnya is part of |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Russia , geographically, |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |politically and |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |civilisation-wise. So a |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |hypothetical triumph of radical |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Islamism on its territory would |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |be anti-historical. Such a |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |development would signify the |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |establishment in the midst of |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|their own. | |with all ensuing consequences |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |for the international community.|eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |(above all posed by a foreign | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Rosselkhozbank works | | |successfully in Chechnya | | | | | |[4367] The regional bank of the | | |Rosselkhozbank has been | | |functioning in Grozny since | | |March 2000. The bank opened | | |under the instructions of the | | |Russian President Vladimir Putin| | |and is aimed at reviving | | |national crediting system for | | |the agricultural and industrial | | |complex. According to its | | |chairman, Yuri Trushin, 250 | | |branches have been opened in | | |many Russian regions. Bank plans| | |to set up another 100 branches | | |in rural areas in the country | | |this year. When Rosselkhozbank | | |opened its branch in Grozny it | | |was the only bank in Chechnya. | | |The task before the bank was to | | |serve judicial persons at the | | |earliest and help the | | |reconstruction of the republics | | |economy and social area. The | | |Russian government laid on the | | |bank the task of paying | | |compensation for people who lost| | |their houses. And the Bank has | | |served up to one thousand | | |clients a day. At present there | | |are ten branches of the bank, 2 | | |in Grozny and 8 in other | | |districts. Bank gives loan | | |actively in the sowing and | | |harvesting seasons. From the | | |very beginning it started to | | |give loans to farms. Bank gives | | |short term credits up to 2 | | |million rubles for one year and | | |long-term for five years. The | | |bank received a license for | | |serving natural persons in 2003.| | |Since then Rosselkhozbank has | | |opened accounts for people and | | |carried out transactions. The | | |bank is involved in realizing | | |social programmes in villages | | |and as an agent-bank in the | | |construction of houses in rural | | |areas it gives loans to buy | | |personal town house, subsidiary | | |enterprise and livestock. | | |([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