The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 270 | | | 11.03.05 | |Version of crash of Mi-8 | | |helicopter in Chechnya is |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |violation of flight rules | | | |11 Mart 2005 Defense ministry experts identifying Maskhadov's| |A criminal case was launched on |body | |the fact of the crash of a Mi-8 |Experts from the Defense Ministry's 124th laboratory in | |helicopter in Chechnya under |Rostov-on-Don are carrying out tests intended to confirm that | |Article 351 of the Criminal Code|the body of a militant eliminated on March 8 was Chechen | |of the Russian Federation |separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, Lieut. Gen. Igor Bykov, the| |"violation of the rules of |Defense Ministry's chief medical official, told a news | |flights and preparation for |conference in Moscow on Friday. "The armed forces' senior | |them," RIA Novosti was told in |forensic expert performed an autopsy on the Chechen separatist| |the military Prosecutor's Office|leader's body on Thursday, and a molecular analysis has given | |of the Joint Group of Forces. |a 97%-confirmation that the body is that of Aslan Maskhadov," | |"After the advent of the light |Bykov said. "In addition, a wide range of genetic tests will | |time of the day the |take place to fully confirm that it was Maskhadov's body," he | |investigators resumed inspecting|said. As a rule, genetic analyses take up to 14 days, Bykov | |the scene of the incident. The |said. | |witnesses of the crash are being|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |questioned, and criminalistic |Chechnya...) | |and technical expert | | |examinations have been fixed," |11 Mart 2005 Gang leader eliminated in Khasavyurt district, | |the agency's interlocutor said. |Dagestan | |As the representative of the |Artur Saritov, a notorious militant responsible for scores of | |military Prosecutor's Office |terrorist attacks against federal forces and civilians that | |specified, according to the |reside in Chechnya and Dagestan, has been eliminated in the | |latest data, 15 people perished |Khasavyurt district by the local militia, advised the North | |and one person was wounded as a |Caucasus Counter-Terrorist Regional Operations HQ. Earlier, | |result of the air crash. The |the republics law enforcement agencies had been tipped off | |agency's interlocutor went on to|about possible whereabouts of Artur Saripov, who had been | |say that the helicopter had been|federally wanted for terrorist involvement that fell under | |carrying 16 people, among them |four article of the Criminal Code. He was one of the | |three crewmen. According to him,|masterminds behind acts of terrorism targeted at Dagestanian | |already the first results of the|and Chechen residents and federal forces assigned to the | |inspection attained testify to |regions. He also led a gang operating in the Khasavyurt | |the fact that the helicopter had|district of Dagestan and before that was a member of Imurzaevs| |caught on a high-voltage line |gang, which victimized the Vedeno district of the Chechen | |and had fallen. The fact that |Republic. Following up on the information, the militia located| |electricity supply discontinued |Saritov and one of his subordinates in the settlement of | |in the Urus-Martan district |Kadyr-Otar. The bandits were encouraged to surrender but chose| |where the helicopter fell speaks|to put up armed resistance trying to flee. Both were killed in| |in favor of the above-said |the shootout. The militia retrieved two pistols and three | |version. "Despite this, the |grenades from the scene. Saritovs associate was identified. He| |investigation will work on all |appeared to be a twenty seven year old from Khasavyurt | |the possible versions of the |implicated in several robberies, victims of which were local | |incident," the military |civilians. | |Prosecutor's Office officials |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |noted. The Mi-8 military |Chechnya...) | |helicopter crashed on Thursday | | |night. |11 Mart 2004 Margelov surprised at western reaction to | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Maskhadov's elimination | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Chairman of the Russian Federation Council's international | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |committee Mikhail Margelov says western reaction to the | | |elimination of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov is | |Basayev remains real leader of |"strange." "However, we should not expect different reaction | |Chechen extremists - mufti |from those who sympathized with filicides in Beslan," Mr. | | |Margelov told journalists. "I do not speak about third | |Chechnya's mufti Akhmad-khadzhi |European countries such as Poland. But would the European | |Shamayev said Shamil Basayev has|Union dare to reproach Americans if they had killed Ben Laden?| |been and remains the real leader|" the senator said. According to Mr. Margelov, Aslan Maskhadov| |of the extremists in the |was considered a peacekeeper in the west. "He spoke about | |republic. "He and Doku Umarov |negotiations preparing terrorists acts. However, nobody | |command all armed groups and |negotiates with terrorists," the senator noted. In his words, | |issue orders to carry out |the consequences of Maskhadov's death are ambiguous but | |sabotage and terrorist attacks,"|political settlement in Chechnya is inevitable. "Those who say| |Shamayev emphasized, "their new |that the elimination of the separatist leader planning new | |leader - Abdul-khalim |terrorist acts was a political mistake either pursue | |Saidullayev - is a puppet in the|anti-Russian interests or have no idea of the developments in | |hands of Basayev and the |the republic," Mikhail Margelov stressed. | |militant young generation of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |extremists." "Saidullayev is |Chechnya...) | |Maskhadov's protege. After | | |Akhmat Kadyrov denounced | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Wahhabis, Maskhadov nominated | | |Saidullayev to the post of mufti| Russia - Chechnya | |of "Ichkeria." At that time, he | | |was professing Wahhabism in | Chechen culture | |Argun. However, Saidullayev | | |declined the offer. In |Literary Ties | |Shamayev's view, with the |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |transfer of Maskhadov's powers | | |to Saidullayev, Basayev and |[5330] | |Umarov will now have a free hand|The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |without any restrictions. "This |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |'sheikh' is absolutely unknown |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |either in the Islamic world, or |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |in the West. Moreover, he does |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |not enjoy great prestige among |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |Chechnya's religious leaders, |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |because he's known as an |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |advocate of the Wahhabi idea," |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |the mufti said. Saidullayev, |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |however, may have some authority|went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |with Maskhadov's associates, he |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |acknowledged. Sheikh |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |Abdul-khalim has never received |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |any special religious education;|the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |he is young, about 30 or 40 |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |years of age. He is an active |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |promoter of the idea to set up |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |in Chechnya and the North |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |Caucasus an Islamic caliphate, |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |Shamayev said. "To carry out |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |terrorist attacks and commit |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |murders of both officials and |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |civilians, the militants need |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |the so-called fetwas - |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |permission by their Shariah |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |court, and no murder could |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |happen without Abdul-khalim's |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |approval," he said. Over the |eng] chechen culture ...) | |past few years, Wahhabis have | | |killed more than 15 clerics in | Chechen tarditions | |Chechnya. ([http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |lng=eng] more...) |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | | |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | | Chechen history | | | |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | | |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |To Reader |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |traditions| music |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | | |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |a Russian territory which has |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |witnessed the most tragic events|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |over the past decade. The book |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |is the latest update on the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Chechen Republic . And this is |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |very important, since a lack of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |fresh and accurate information |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | Chechen cuisine | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |example, that Chechen society is|traditions| music | |allegedly inherently alien to |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russia , that pro-Russian |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |elements in the republic are |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |marginalised; and lastly, that |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Russian power structures are |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |fighting the Chechen people, |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |rather than armed bandit groups.|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |The reality, however, is that |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |only with the return of the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |legitimate authorities are |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |villages and towns being |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |restored, children going to |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |school for the first time in |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |many years, and pensioners |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |receiving long-forgotten |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |their own. | |referendum on a new Chechen |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |constitution, and parliamentary |eng] in detail ...) | |and presidential elections. | | |These votes will be held, | - | |despite continued attempts by | | |bandit groups and their leaders |## | |to scupper the process of | | |normalisation in the republic, | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |the latest terrorist act being | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal | | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern| | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens | | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural| | |identity, the free use of its | | |own language, and preaching | | |Islam. On the contrary, it was | | |during de facto "independence" | | |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 | | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |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 | | | | | |The first complex of the Argun | | |thermal power station | | |commissioned | | | | | |[1952] It took several years to | | |complete this long-awaited in | | |Chechnya effort. On December | | |25th last year construction | | |workers tested the first startup| | |complex TEZ 4 (heat producing | | |facility) It comprises 15 sites | | |linked into a single | | |technological complex. It | | |includes a boiler (#4) and a | | |turbine (#3), storage facilities| | |for chemical agents, a chemical | | |shop, a technological stockade | | |for cables and tubings, a | | |heating equipment for | | |residential areas and the | | |industrial zone, water-cooling | | |equipment, needed to cool down | | |the turbine, and | | |gas-distribution point. The | | |first complex includes a | | |transformer, linked to a | | |high-voltage line in Dagestan | | |and chief control room to manage| | |the quality of steam and hot | | |water, as well as the frequency | | |of the current produced by the | | |power plant and synchronization | | |of the frequency with that used | | |in the rest of the Northern | | |Caucasus. According to Petr | | |Mikhailov who represents | | |Mosenergomontazh general | | |contractor, which does most of | | |the work there, while testing | | |the complex, the turbine ran | | |non-stop for 72 hours at full | | |load of 6.1 megawatts. After | | |completing the test run a few | | |ideas on its improvements were | | |expressed , which took the whole| | |of January. As a result, the | | |builders and assemblers | | |completed the first complex and | | |officially commissioned the | | |site. The ceremony was attended | | |by Chechen officials and those | | |of Russias United Energy | | |Systems. They set the generator | | |running at full capacity of 6 | | |megawatts. At the present time | | |the complex is undergoing a mode| | |setting-up, which will take | | |several weeks. The complex | | |periodically is set into | | |operation, since a careful check| | |of all its systems is required. | | |Petr Mikhailov said the | | |full-scale operation of the | | |first complex of the Argun power| | |station would allow to heat all | | |living areas of the city and | | |would permit to commission a | | |number of local industrial | | |enterprises, and first of all, | | |the sugar refinery , a housing | | |construction combine and | | |Pischemash factory. By the end | | |of February, the power plant is | | |planning a test run for steaming| | |capacity of another boiler (#3).| | |God alone and perhaps the RUE | | |leadership too know when the | | |plant will be fully | | |commissioned, Petr Mikhailov | | |joked. But it is unquestionable | | |that this day will be an event | | |to celebrate not only for Argun,| | |but for the whole of Chechnya | | |too. 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