The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site. All | | |aboutChechnya| news| history| traditions| | Actual News from Chechnya | |music | | |-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 271 | | | 14.03.05 | |Chechnya military commandants office comes | | |under fire attack |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Unknown attackers opened fire on the |14 Mart 2005 Russia against discussing Chechnya at UN | |military commandants office in the Leninsky|commission session | |district of Chechnyas capital Grozny on |Russia has warned the European Union and the U.S. against | |Monday. An Itar-Tass correspondent in |putting a draft resolution on the situation in Chechnya on | |Grozny said some five shells were shot with|the agenda of the upcoming regular session of the UN | |a grenade-launcher at 9:05 Moscow time. The|Commission on Human Rights to open in Geneva on March 14. | |attack has left injured military |"Russia has never refused to cooperate on the Chechen issue | |servicemen, a number of who was not |with the international community. However, we will not allow| |immediately certain. Personnel of the |anyone to gamble on the theme of human rights observance in | |military commandants office has begun the |Chechnya and try to derive some opportunistic political | |search in the district. According to |dividends from this," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury | |preliminary information, fire was opened |Fedotov said in an interview with Interfax. | |from one of passing cars. The military |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |commandants office of the Leninsky district|from Chechnya...) | |is located in a sector of governmental | | |buildings near a base of the regional |14 Mart 2005 Three militants detained in Chechnya | |Emergency Situations Ministry, on which |Three militants were detained in Chechnyas Shali district | |several shots were fired with a under |and in the city of Argun on Sunday. One was a leader of a | |barrel grenade-launcher in last years |band in 1999-2000 when federal troops conducted a military | |August. The attack then left no casualties.|campaign against large bands in Chechnya. A spokesman for | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |the North Caucasus Regional Operational Staff told Itar-Tass| |section=newsarceng&rowid=20884&lng=eng] |on Monday that this gunman was known to be involved in | |more...) |terrorist acts in the Grozny and Gudermes districts, in | | |which policemen and civilians were injured. Two other | |Consequences of Maskhadov's death yet to be|bandits were members of a group operating in the Shali | |seen - U.S. diplomat |district. Both had taken part inn the attack on the village | | |of Avtury in June 2004 when 12 policemen were killed. The | |It is too early to predict what influence |investigation into the record of the detainees has begun. | |the death of Chechen separatist leader |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |Aslan Maskhadov will have on the settlement|from Chechnya...) | |process in Chechnya, a spokesman for the | | |U.S. Embassy in Russia told Interfax on |14 Mart 2004 Russian regional UNESCO office to be opened in| |Thursday. The U.S. government admits that |Grozny | |Aslan Maskhadov was a key figure in the |The Russian Commission on UNESCO Affairs will open a | |Chechen conflict, the spokesman said. What |regional office in Grozny, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov | |impact Maskhadov's death will have on steps|told Interfax on Saturday. "This will be the first regional | |aimed at ending the conflict in Chechnya is|UNESCO office opened on Russian territory," Alkhanov said. | |yet to be seen, he said. ([http:// |Alkhanov and the commission's executive secretary, Sergei | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] more|Ordzhonikidze, discussed the construction of a national | |...) |museum in Grozny on Saturday. A museum named after painter | | |Pyotr Zakharov, which earlier existed in Chechnya, was razed| | Chechen history |to the ground during the hostilities, and its exhibits have | | |been lost or looted. In addition, Alkhanov and Ordzhonikidze| | Chechnya | Questions and answers |decided at the meeting that a campus with an aqua-park and a| | |cultural and entertainment complex should be opened on the | |To Reader |grounds of the Chechen State University. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |ChechenRepublic | news| history| traditions|from Chechnya...) | || music | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------- | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian | | |territory which has witnessed the most | Russia - Chechnya | |tragic events over the past decade. The | | |book is the latest update on the Chechen | Chechen culture | |Republic . And this is very important, | | |since a lack of fresh and accurate |Literary Ties | |information about events in Chechnya |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |generates many distorted conceptions and | | |rumours - both within and outside Russia . |[5330] | |For example, that Chechen society is |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian| |allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that|poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |pro-Russian elements in the republic are |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |marginalised; and lastly, that Russian |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |power structures are fighting the Chechen |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina | |people, rather than armed bandit groups. |Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother | |The reality, however, is that only with the|Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate | |return of the legitimate authorities are |several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she | |villages and towns being restored, children|raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to | |going to school for the first time in many |the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives.| |years, and pensioners receiving |In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his | |long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social |death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 | |rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a |restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great | |referendum on a new Chechen constitution, |poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all | |and parliamentary and presidential |restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in | |elections. These votes will be held, |the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance.| |despite continued attempts by bandit groups|The most important thing that its internal architecture, the| |and their leaders to scupper the process of|living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet| |normalisation in the republic, the latest |may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum | |terrorist act being the bombing of the |personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned | |republican government building. The war |person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the| |being waged by Chechen separatists against |museums director. The employees will be allocated part of | |federal forces and more often than not |the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in | |against their own co-citizens is by no |search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and | |means a "national liberation struggle of |complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is | |the Chechen people", but an episode in the |passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, | |overall offensive by international |restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on| |terrorism on the fundamental principles of |it will receive its first visitors. | |modern civilisation. The facts show that |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng& | |being a part of the Russian Federation in |lng=eng] chechen culture ...) | |no way threatens the Chechen Republic 's | | |cultural identity, the free use of its own | Chechen tarditions | |language, and preaching Islam. On the | | |contrary, it was during de facto |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |"independence" from Russia that the Chechen|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |people suffered a humanitarian tragedy on |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |an unprecedented scale. Hostage-taking, the| | |slave trade and plundering came to form the|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost | |economic basis of the new regime, while |important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is | |chaos and war became the form of its |returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at | |political existence. We want to emphasise |the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs | |once more: Chechnya is part of Russia , |his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm | |geographically, politically and |of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that | |civilisation-wise. So a hypothetical |reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains| |triumph of radical Islamism on its |the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and | |territory would be anti-historical. Such a |various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and| |development would signify the establishment|L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of | |in the midst of Europe of a Taliban-like |Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional | |regime, with all ensuing consequences for |family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic | |the international community. The corporate |ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi | |author - journalists of the Russian |Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Information Agency Novosti - have attempted|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |to be as brief as possible on providing |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |answers to the most-often aked questions | | |(above all posed by a foreign audience) | Chechen cuisine | |about the Chechen issue. Hence the book's | | |title: " Chechnya : Questions and Answers".|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| | |It draws heavily on information provided by|history| traditions| music | |various Russian ministries and departments |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |that in one or another way are involved in |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |normalising life in the republic. |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread| |Russian Information Agency Novosti |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |section=answerseng&lng=eng] in detail ...) |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat | | |is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That| | Chechen economics |was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th | | |century. And it was not until the late 19th century that | |Chechnyas railway infrastructure is being |many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish | |reconstructed |- had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | | |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times | |[6161] Russian Railways Company spent 915 |immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and | |million rubles for this purpose last year. |sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they | |A share-holder company in the republic has |have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic | |carried out all reconstruction work in the |communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special | |railway infrastructure since 2004 under an |culinary traditions of their own. | |agreement between the two sides on joint |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng& | |work. This means, reconstruction of railway|lng=eng] in detail ...) | |stations and railroads, new communication | | |centeres, food supply enterprises and | - | |pharmacies is being carried out according | | |to a plan. The territories of railway |## | |stations Alpatevo, Nayrskaya, Solkushino, | | |Chervlennaya-yzlovaya, Gudermes, Dzhalka, |Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Argun and Grozny have been reconstructed. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |The guarded zones near the bridges over the| | |rivers of Sunzha and Belka are supplied | | |with electricity and the main cable link, | | |Isherskaya-Chervlennaya-Yzlovaya-Khasavyurt| | |is repaired. The Grozny department of the | | |North Caucasian railway infrastructure was | | |restored in September last year by an order| | |of the director of the Russian Railways | | |Company, Gennady Fadeev. It has recruited | | |its staff too. The staff of the locomotive | | |depot Gudermes has been determined and | | |locomotive brigades have been set up to | | |carry out maintenance work of carriages. | | |The reconstruction works includes the | | |restoration of social facilities. In all 22| | |houses of railway workers have been | | |repaired. The overall area of the buildings| | |is 8 thousand square meters. The start of | | |the direct railway link between Grozny and | | |Moscow after a 5-year break was a | | |significant event. By taking into account | | |the desire of passengers the train passes | | |through Rostov-on Don but not Astrakhan. | | |This shortens the way by one hour. Russian | | |Railways Company plans to invest 82 million| | |rubles this year to reconstruct facilities | | |of the railway infrastructure in Chechnya. | | |This sum will be spent to electrify some | | |sectors and restore communication network. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=| | |§ion=economeng] more...) | | | | | |-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | section=projectrus&lng=eng] [about] | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com