The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 268 | | | 04.03.05 | |PACE roundtable debate on | | |Chechnya should be held in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Russia - Alkhanov | | | |04 Mart 2005 Two russian regions plan cooperation | |A roundtable discussion on |The cooperative effort involves the Shali region and one of | |Chechnya under PACE auspices |St.Petersburg largest districts the Moscow District. A | |should be held in Russia, |delegation from the Shali region visited the city in | |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov |mid-February. The Chechen delegation included chiefs of | |said in an interview with |regional administrations and that of the Chiri-Yurt village, | |Interfax on Wednesday. "I |as well as chief of regional educational system and chief | |believe this would be the right |doctor of the Shali hospital. They brought back the best | |decision for everyone, including|impressions of the city on the Neva River and of the warm | |PACE," he said. Alkhanov said he|welcome they received there, contacts with city officials and | |had suggested that a roundtable |workers of the Moscow District of St.Petersburg. They gave us | |discussion on the Chechnya |a warm treatment as to close friends, according to chief | |problem be held in Grozny. "If |doctor Sultan Chapsukayev. And we felt immediately they were | |they don't want Grozny, let's |not engaged in some public relations efforts, but a candid | |hold it [somewhere else] in |feeling. The delegation visited a number of educational and | |Russia," he said. The problem of|medical facilities of the Moscow District, visited factories, | |settling the situation in |toured the citys landmarks, and several museums. Business | |Chechnya is Russia's internal |discussions with officials of the Districts structures proved | |problem and should be considered|most useful and they included economics, health care, culture,| |on Russian territory, Alkhanov |education, sports and social security. According to Sultan | |said. |Chapsukayev, they went to St. Petersburg not to beg. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Colleagues from the Moscow District, taking note of our | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |situation, themselves offered their help . The visit of the | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |Shali delegation to the Moscow District of St.Petersburg | | |resulted in the signing of an agreement on friendship and | |Militants planting landmines in |cooperation of the two regions. And members of the Chechen | |fields prior to sowing campaign |delegation believe this is a most useful and timely document, | | |which paves the way for far-ranging and long-term joint work | |Chechen militants plant |in many directions. Musa Arkunayev, administration chief of | |landmines in the fields in |the Chiri-Yurt village, is convinced that implementing this | |anticipation of the sowing |agreement will be to great benefit to his village, since | |campaign, RIA Novosti was told |nearly all cooperative aspects dealt with in the document | |by a spokesman of the Regional |extend to Chiri-Yurt. The village has large enterprises, such | |Operative Headquarters running |as cement, silicate , lime-products and stone-processing and | |the antiterrorist operation in |their involvement in the economic aspects of the agreement | |the North Caucasus. According to|will have a positive effect on their development. The village | |the officer, to prevent |will also benefit from the cooperation of the two regions in | |terrorist attacks just like they|education, health care, and culture. A group of Shali | |have done before, federal forces|officials are expected to depart shortly for St. Petersburg | |started combing agricultural |for upgrading their skills, and exchange of experience with | |lands for landmines and |their colleagues in the Moscow District. Musa Arsanukayev | |improvised explosive devices |hopes that the group will include doctors, teachers, and | |(IED) planted by the militants. |cultural workers from Chiri-Yurt. And this spring Shali is to | |"During an examination of a land|host a delegation from the Moscow District on a reciprocal | |plot in the village of Gekhi in |visit. Akhmed Gutayev administration chief of the Shali region| |the Urus-Martan District, combat|is convinced that they will be just as pleased with the visit,| |engineers found a TM-57 antitank|as members of the Shali delegation by their acquaintance with | |landmine planted by militants. |the Moscow District. He is also convinced that the cooperation| |The mine was lifted and taken |agreement signed in St. Petersburg will benefit not only those| |away, and then it was disposed |two regions, but also Chechnya and St. Petersburg as a whole. | |of in an explosion," the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |spokesman said. Search for the |Chechnya...) | |perpetrators is underway. In | | |addition, an arms cache has been|03 Mart 2005 Chechnya human rights setup should not be | |found in the woods on the |speculated | |outskirts of the village of |The Russian Foreign Ministry points to the hopelessness of | |Alkhan-Kala. There were an AKM |attempts to speculate on the human rights situation in | |assault rifle, four hand |Chechnya. The press communique of the Russian Foreign | |grenades and seven 120-mm mortar|Ministry, which has come to hand at RIA Novosti on Wednesday, | |bombs modified for use as IEDs |says that the first round of human rights consultations | |found in the cache. According to|between Russia and the European Union was held in Luxemburg on| |the Regional Operative |March 1. "Representatives of the European Union have received | |Headquarters, another arms cache|detailed and circumstantial information on the human rights | |was unearthed in an abandoned |situation in Russia. In addition, the attention of our | |building at the settlement of |European partners was again drawn to the hopeless and | |Oktyabrsky in the Vedeno |counterproductive nature of attempts to speculate on the theme| |District the day before. An |of the human rights situation in Chechnya," the Russian | |82-mm mortar bomb modified for |foreign policy establishment stresses. Exchange of opinions on| |use as an IED, 1 kg of plastic |the state of the Russian-speaking population in Latvia and | |explosives, two hand grenades |Estonia was held on Russian initiative, the communique says. | |and small-arms ammunition were |The sides also paid a special attention to problems to be | |stashed there. Ammunition has |considered at the 61st session of the United Nations Human | |been removed and disposed of and|Rights Commission, due in March-April. "Consultations were | |the assault rifle was sent for |held in the constructive and open climate and were marked by | |expert examination. ([http:// |orientation towards cooperation," the Russian Foreign Ministry| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |notes. The sides have agreed upon putting such consultations | |lng=eng] more...) |on a regular footing. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | Chechen history |Chechnya...) | | | | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|03 Mart 2004 Chechnya's oil sector does not work to full | | |capasity | |To Reader |The oil sector of Chechnya is not working to full capacity, | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has said. "Geological | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||prospecting is now crucial. We are making use of only 100 out | |traditions| music |of the 500 oil wells," Mr. Alkhanov told journalists on | | |Wednesday. Revenue from the oil industry today makes up 70 to | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|80 percent of the Chechen budget, he said. Chechnya is going | |a Russian territory which has |to develop the oil industry, Mr. Alkhanov stressed. "Yes, | |witnessed the most tragic events|there is a document for operation of Rosneft. But time does | |over the past decade. The book |not stand still. Rosneft operation is not enough. We want to | |is the latest update on the |develop it in quality and in quantity," the Chechen president | |Chechen Republic . And this is |said. He has proposed sending Chechen oilmen to work in other | |very important, since a lack of |regions of Russia. "I propose to the federal government that | |fresh and accurate information |our oilmen go to work in the Tyumen region by the rotation | |about events in Chechnya |method," Mr. Alkhanov said, noting that it was practiced in | |generates many distorted |the times of the USSR. As regards interaction with regions of | |conceptions and rumours - both |the Russian Federation, he said that Chechnya today has very | |within and outside Russia . For |good contacts with Moscow, the Saratov and Kemerovo regions. | |example, that Chechen society is|Good contacts are developing with also Kazakhstan, Mr. | |allegedly inherently alien to |Alkhanov said. | |Russia , that pro-Russian |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |elements in the republic are |Chechnya...) | |marginalised; and lastly, that | | |Russian power structures are | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.| Russia - Chechnya | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the | Chechen culture | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being |Literary Ties | |restored, children going to |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners |[5330] | |receiving long-forgotten |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |referendum on a new Chechen |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |constitution, and parliamentary |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |and presidential elections. |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |These votes will be held, |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |despite continued attempts by |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |bandit groups and their leaders |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |to scupper the process of |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |normalisation in the republic, |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |the latest terrorist act being |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |the bombing of the republican |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |government building. The war |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |being waged by Chechen |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |separatists against federal |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |forces and more often than not |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |against their own co-citizens is|and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |by no means a "national |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |liberation struggle of the |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |Chechen people", but an episode |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |in the overall offensive by |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |international terrorism on the |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |fundamental principles of modern|Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |civilisation. The facts show |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |that being a part of the Russian|Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |Federation in no way threatens |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |identity, the free use of its |eng] chechen culture ...) | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | Chechen tarditions | |during de facto "independence" | | |from Russia that the Chechen |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |people suffered a humanitarian |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |form the economic basis of the |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |new regime, while chaos and war |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |became the form of its political|State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |existence. We want to emphasise |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |once more: Chechnya is part of |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |Russia , geographically, |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |politically and |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |civilisation-wise. So a |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |hypothetical triumph of radical |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |Islamism on its territory would |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |be anti-historical. Such a |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |development would signify the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |establishment in the midst of |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |with all ensuing consequences |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - | Chechen cuisine | |journalists of the Russian | | |Information Agency Novosti - |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |have attempted to be as brief as|traditions| music | |possible on providing answers to|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |the most-often aked questions |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |(above all posed by a foreign |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |audience) about the Chechen |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Chechnya : Questions and |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Answers". It draws heavily on |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |information provided by various |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Russian ministries and |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |departments that in one or |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |another way are involved in |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |normalising life in the |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |republic. |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Russian Information Agency |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |Novosti |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|their own. | |=eng] in detail ...) |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| | |eng] in detail ...) | | Chechen economics | | | | - | |The poultry factory in Shali | | |restoring its past fame |## | | | | |[2214] Before the 1990's of past| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |century , the North-Caucasian | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |poultry farm in the Shali region| | |was considered the largest in | | |the region. Each year it | | |produced 6 million broiler meat | | |and 15 million eggs. The total | | |employment was 1,200 people. The| | |original plan called for its | | |restoration by the end of 2004. | | |But unfortunately, not | | |everything that is planned is | | |actually carried out. This | | |happened the North-Caucasian | | |poultry farm because of the lack| | |of financing. But its director | | |Ilya Germansultanov is not one | | |to lose heart. From the start of| | |this year its financing resumed.| | |Work is carried on by the | | |general contractor "Balkarstroy"| | |and the sub-contractor involved | | |in this effort is Shali's | | |regional company "Gigant". From | | |the beginning of this year 30 | | |million roubles' worth of | | |equipment has been moved to the | | |construction site. The primary | | |objective is to launch the first| | |complex to produce 240,000 | | |chickens in two pens, an | | |incubator and the slaughter | | |house. The complex will be able | | |to produce monthly up to 6 | | |million eggs and up to 40 tons | | |of chicken meat. Ilya | | |Germasultanov is convinced there| | |would be no problem with sales. | | |The farm will strike agreements | | |on deliveries not only for | | |Chechnya itself, but also for | | |Ingushetia, Dagestan and other | | |regions of Russia. The first | | |complex which is supposed to be | | |commissioned early this quarter | | |or next of this year will employ| | |150 people. And when the factory| | |is fully completed it will | | |employ up to 700 people from | | |Shali , Kurchaloy, Urus-Martan | | |and Grozny regions. Ilya | | |Germasultanov is convinced that | | |the North-Caucasian poultry farm| | |will decidedly restore its | | |former fame. | | |([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