The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 267 | | | 28.02.05 | |Young Chechens to spend summer | | |vacations in other Russian |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |regions | | | |28 February 2005 Chechen militants may number 1,500 - | |The participants in the seminar |Dzhabrailov | |on the role of civil society in |There are no more than 1500 armed militants in Chechnya, the | |the North Caucasus believe that |republic's State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov said on | |young Chechens should spend |Friday. "As far as I know, the militants have a numerical | |summer vacations in youth camps |strength limit of 1,500 men. This number is fully financed and| |and on tours to other Russian |supported from the East and from other countries," Dzhabrailov| |regions. A decision to expand |told a news conference at Interfax on Friday. Separatist | |work in this sphere in 2005 was |emissaries are operating in villages inside and outside | |made at the seminar. Moreover, |Chechnya to recruit fighters to maintain their strength at the| |it is necessary to let young |1,500 limit, he said. "Tentatively, it can be said that about | |Chechens study in other regions |1,000 militants are permanently in camps in the mountainous | |of the Russian Federation. The |parts of the Chechen Republic. Their hard core consists of | |participants in the seminar also|groups under the control of [Shamil] Basayev and Arab | |decided to boost the activities |mercenaries, of whom there are about 300 to 400 men," | |on Russian political parties, in|Dzhabrailov said. | |particular, the United Russia, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |the Communist Party, Rodina |Chechnya...) | |(Motherland) and the Union of | | |the Right Forces (SPS) on |28 February 2005 240,000 young people receiving education in | |Chechen territory. They also |Chechnya | |offered party members to forward|Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko said | |proposals to the Republic's |240,000 young people were presently receiving education in | |administration. Head of the |Chechnya. He said this at the seminar "The role of civil | |Russian federal agency for |society in ensuring social stability in the North Caucasus" | |culture and cinematography |held on Saturday in RIA Novosti. According to Mr. Fursenko, | |Mikhail Shvydkoi who attended |it's necessary to define now what specialists Chechnya needs | |the seminar said that civil |first of all to train them. The minister said that "there are | |society could not be formed |outstanding enthusiasts from among teachers in the republic, | |without a strong executive |who are an example for the entire Russia." In his turn, Deputy| |power. According to him, it is |Culture and Mass Communications Minister Leonid Nadirov said | |necessary to start serious work |that "the stress should be laid on the mass forms of culture | |with young Chechens because |that enjoy popularity among young people." | |Chechen people have lost many of|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |its traditions in the past ten |Chechnya...) | |years. "It is necessary to | | |restore Chechen intelligentsia |28 February 2004 D.Kozak: Chechnya cannot develop without | |which used to play an important |civil society institutions | |role in the republic, to revive |Presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry | |club life and children's bands |Kozak deems it impossible for Chechnya to develop without | |and to make young people return |establishment of civil society institutions. "It is impossible| |to Chechnya," Mr. Shvydkoi |to ensure the republic's economic and political development | |stressed. In his opinion, |without establishing basic institutions of civil society," | |Chechen authorities should |Kozak said at the seminar "Role of Civil Society in Ensuring | |create infrastructure for |Social Stability in North Caucasus". According to him, until a| |cultural development. |comprehensive system of local government is firmly in place in| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya, effective solution of a host of problems confronting| |index.php?section=newsarceng& |the republic is "out of the question". The presidential envoy | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |stressed that it was necessary to bar the widespread practice | | |in the North Caucasus when "vested interests of certain groups| |Chechnya: President optimistic |are voiced by way of pompous declarations". "Settlement of all| | |political issues should be held in a civilized way - through | |Chechnya will provide 13,000 new|conduct of a referendum or an election according to | |job opportunities within the |international standards. This is the only way to address | |year, vouched republican |issues pertaining to establishment of the republic's social | |President Alu Alkhanov. He was |and political system," Kozak said. Participants in the seminar| |addressing a seminar, underway |pointed out that the infrastructure of a normal civil society | |at RIA Novosti today, on civil |in Chechnya has been destroyed and is practically | |society contribution to the |non-existent. Many participants urged the national NGOs and | |North Caucasian social stability|political parties to be more active in setting up their | |cause. "We shall offer ten to |branches in Chechnya. Among other things, they highlighted | |thirteen thousand new jobs even |youth problems as one of the main concerns on the authorities'| |this year, and twice the number,|agenda. Participants also spoke in favour of more dynamic | |or even more, next year," he |efforts to be taken in advancing educational standards of | |said. The President forecast |young Chechens, expansion of a network of training courses | |sweeping economic progress in |preparing young people for admission to colleges and | |Chechnya quite soon. "Next year |universities, and organization of familiarization trips for | |will bring an economic boom. And|young Chechens to get to know their counterparts in other | |things will be even better in |regions of Russia. The seminar participants also called on all| |2007." He called the gathering |Russia's political parties to take a more active part in the | |of Chechen intellectuals to |electoral process currently under way in the run up to the | |encourage the republic's |forthcoming parliamentary elections in the republic. Media | |population and offer it unbiased|problems were also in the focus of the seminar's discussion. | |information about all |According to many speakers at the forum, mass media must | |improvements that come to |display a responsible approach toward the developments taking | |Chechnya. "There is very much in|place in the region and supply the public with objective | |current Chechen developments to |information concerning all events in Chechnya. The speakers | |play into the opposition hand. |highlighted the importance of constructive criticism in media | |We are coming through |for re-establishment of normal life in the republic. All | |hardships-there are houses lying|seminar participants also acknowledged the necessity of an | |in ruins, and people kidnapped."|"inter-Chechen" dialogue between different political figures | |All those problems harass the |in the republic. The seminar, held on the premises of RIA | |republican top in its efforts. |Novosti, is attended by head of presidential administration | |"We are to take stock of the |Vladislav Surkov, President of the Chechen Republic Alu | |situation. Please explain to the|Alkhanov, Russia's Education Minister Andrei Fursenko, | |public that the hard times will |presidential aide Aslanbek Aslakhanov, and over fifty | |pass, and we shall overcome all |representatives of various civic, political, media, | |adversities." Chechnya has |educational and cultural organizations of the Chechen | |chosen peace, creative work, and|Republic. | |economic rehabilitation-and that|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |matters more than anything else,|Chechnya...) | |stressed President Alkhanov. The| | |seminar opened yesterday. | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Prominent on the gathering, | | |apart from the republican | Russia - Chechnya | |President, are Vladislav Surkov,| | |deputy chief of Kremlin staff; | Chechen culture | |Andrei Fursenko, federal | | |Education and Research Minister;|Literary Ties | |and Aslanbek Aslakhanov, |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |President Vladimir Putin's | | |adviser. The event has brought |[5330] | |together more than fifty |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |spokesmen of numerous |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |Chechen-based public, political,|Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |media, educational and cultural |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |organizations. ([http:// |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |lng=eng] more...) |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | | |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| | Chechen history |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | | |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | | |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |To Reader |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |traditions| music |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | | |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |a Russian territory which has |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |witnessed the most tragic events|Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |over the past decade. The book |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |is the latest update on the |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |Chechen Republic . And this is |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |very important, since a lack of |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |fresh and accurate information |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |about events in Chechnya |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |generates many distorted |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |conceptions and rumours - both |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |within and outside Russia . For |eng] chechen culture ...) | |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 | | | | | |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