The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 269 | | | 09.03.05 | |Gunmen try to destabilise | | |Chechnya situation before Eur |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |meeting | | | |09 Mart 2005 State Duma official on Maskhadov's death | |Gunmen on Maskhadov's |There is no doubting the fact that the liquidation of | |instructions are trying to make |Maskhadov highlights the success of our secret services, | |the situation tense in the |Gennady Gudkov, member of the Russian State Duma's security | |Chechen Republic before the |committee, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Maskhadov's death has | |first round table discussion on |dealt a serious political blow against international | |Chechnya in Strasburg that is |terrorism, Gudkov noted. Maskhadov used to unite foreign | |planned for March 21 on the |centers, he added. According to Gudkov, the West had perceived| |initiative of the PACE |Maskhadov as a moderate separatist. The West, which had | |commission on political issues. |preferred Maskhadov, will now stop advocating talks because | |Gunmen are trying this way to |there are no longer any moderate Chechen separatists, Gudkov | |present themselves to the public|went on to say. In his words, the Chechen counter-terrorist | |as a force able to influence |operation will acquire new forms after Maskhadov's death. | |developments in the republic, |Separatist actions will become more disunited, the State Duma | |Chechen leader Alu Alkhanov told|deputy believes. In Gudkov's opinion, terrorists will find it | |a meeting of heads of federal |much harder to finance their groups after the death of | |and Chechen law-enforcement |Maskhadov. | |structures. The fuss over the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |so-called peace talks allegedly |Chechnya...) | |proposed by Maskhadov is not | | |accidental, he believes. The |09 Mart 2005 4 suspected collaborators with Beslan terrorists| |round table discussion was |arrested | |originally planned to take place|Investigative activities have resulted in the arrest of four | |in Grozny, then there was |suspected collaborators with the hostage-takers in Beslan and | |talking about Moscow, and now it|militants that raided Ingushetia in June 2004, Deputy | |is planned to hold it outside |Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel told Interfax on Friday. | |Russia. There is a definite |"The investigation of the September 1-3, 2004 terrorist act in| |reason for it, the Chechen |Beslan is continuing. In the process, four suspected | |leader said. The recent attempt |collaborators with the terrorists at the stage of preparing | |by gunmen to attack a district |the crime and attacking Ingushetia in June 2004 have been | |police office in the Sunzha |arrested. Five more were eliminated when they offered | |region, when five bandits were |resistance," he said. | |killed and nine were seized, but|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |police personnel members were |Chechnya...) | |also injured, is linked with the| | |round table discussion, Alkhanov|09 Mart 2004 Aslan Maskhadov destroyed in Chechnya | |believes. Maskhadov's party |"In the course of a special operation conducted by Russia's | |wants to present itself as a |FSB on March 8, 2005 in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Grozny | |force able to influence the |district, Chechnya, one of the terrorist leaders Aslan | |situation in the republic, |Maskhadov was destroyed," reported Ilya Shabalkin, a spokesman| |though it is far from the |for the regional headquarters of the counter-terrorist | |reality, the president said. All|operation in the North Caucasus. He said that "also detained | |measures must be taken to |are his (Maskhadov's) accomplices Iliskhanov and Murdashev and| |prevent such situation |his nephew Veskhan, who together with Maskhadov were hiding in| |aggravating attempts, he |an underground bunker under one of the houses in | |stressed. Alkhanov suggested |Tolstoy-Yurt." "Maskhadov was identified by local residents, | |working out a system of measures|and also members of federal forces. An | |to prevent leaders of bandits |operational-investigative group of the prosecutor's office of | |from displaying their initiative|Chechnya has left for the scene to carry out the required | |in situation development. |investigative measures," Shabalkin said. As he noted, Aslan | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Maskhadov was destroyed when the bunker he was hiding in was | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |blown up. Russian President Vladimir Putin had on that day a | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |meeting with FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, who reported to | | |the Russian head of state that bandit groups leader Aslan | |Militants Intercepted with Major|Maskhadov was liquidated in Chechnya. Patrushev also informed | |Arsenal |Putin that the preliminary identification had already been | | |carried out, and it confirmed the identity of Maskhadov. A | |A carload of weapons was seized |source in the North Caucasus department of the | |yesterday in the Achkhoi-Martan |Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia, told RIA Novosti over | |district of Chechnya as law |the telephone that Maskhadov's body would not be handed over | |enforcers intercepted two |to his relatives. "According to the Criminal Code of the | |militants from Akaevs gang, the |Russian Federation, bodies of terrorists under Article 205 | |North Caucasus Counter-Terrorist|(terrorism) are not issued to relatives," the agency's source | |Regional Operations HQ said. |explained. He said that under the law terrorists' bodies are | |Investigators discovered four |buried on the territory of the constituent member of the | |antitank grenade launchers, two |Russian Federation where this terrorist was destroyed, but, he| |AK assault rifles, six grenades |added, the place of the burial is known only to a limited | |and scores of rounds in their |circle of people from law enforcement bodies. The source | |vehicle. The militia discovered |recalled that the last time Maskhadov was put on an | |that the militants had been |international search list was in connection with the Beslan | |commanded by Akaev to perpetrate|terrorist act. So he comes within the operation of this law. | |terrorist acts targeting the |Taus Dzhabrailov, head of the State Council of Chechnya, | |heads of district and village |commenting on reports of Maskhadov's death said that his | |administrations, civilians and |destruction "had knocked the ideological footing from under | |militia officers. When |the militants' feet." "Practically those people who cited | |questioned, the terrorists |Maskhadov's legitimacy and demanded negotiations and received | |revealed their commanders plans,|his emissaries are now left with no base or foundation," | |disclosing the names of some of |Dzhabrailov said. He said that following Maskhadov's | |their associates. The militia |destruction "there now remain only Basayev and a handful of | |launched a hunt to arrest Akaevs|mercenaries who must answer for atrocities committed against | |subordinates still at large. The|the Chechen people." | |HQ went on to say that a major |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |weapons and ammunition cache was|Chechnya...) | |located on the environs of the | | |settlement of Rogun-Kazha, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Nozhai-Yurt district, Chechnya. | | |Militants had hid an AK assault | Russia - Chechnya | |rifle, an antitank grenade, a | | |kilo of plastic explosives and | Chechen culture | |more than 1,000 assorted | | |cartridges in a destroyed |Literary Ties | |building there. According to the|Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |source, the rounds were | | |destroyed and the guns were sent|[5330] | |for testing. Search for the |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |bandits who stashed them is |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |underway. ([http:// |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |lng=eng] more...) |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| | |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | | Chechen history |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | | |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | | |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |To Reader |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |traditions| music |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | | |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |a Russian territory which has |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |witnessed the most tragic events|and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |over the past decade. The book |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |is the latest update on the |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |very important, since a lack of |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |fresh and accurate information |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |about events in Chechnya |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |generates many distorted |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |conceptions and rumours - both |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |within and outside Russia . For |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |example, that Chechen society is|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |allegedly inherently alien to |eng] chechen culture ...) | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are | Chechen tarditions | |marginalised; and lastly, that | | |Russian power structures are |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |fighting the Chechen people, |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |legitimate authorities are |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |villages and towns being |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |restored, children going to |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |school for the first time in |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |many years, and pensioners |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |receiving long-forgotten |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |referendum on a new Chechen |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |constitution, and parliamentary |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |and presidential elections. |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |These votes will be held, |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |despite continued attempts by |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |bandit groups and their leaders |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |to scupper the process of |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being | Chechen cuisine | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |being waged by Chechen |traditions| music | |separatists against federal |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |forces and more often than not |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |against their own co-citizens is|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |by no means a "national |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |liberation struggle of the |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Chechen people", but an episode |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |in the overall offensive by |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |international terrorism on the |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |fundamental principles of modern|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |civilisation. The facts show |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |that being a part of the Russian|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Federation in no way threatens |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |identity, the free use of its |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |own language, and preaching |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |during de facto "independence" |their own. | |from Russia that the Chechen |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |people suffered a humanitarian |eng] in detail ...) | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| - | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the |## | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |became the form of its political| Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |existence. We want to emphasise | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 poultry factory in Shali | | |restoring its past fame | | | | | |[2214] Before the 1990's of past| | |century , the North-Caucasian | | |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