The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site. All | | |aboutChechnya| news| history| traditions| | Actual News from Chechnya | |music | | |-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 272 | | | 17.03.05 | |Basayev's arrest will end war in Chechnya -| | |Kadyrov |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The counter terrorist operation in Chechnya|17 Mart 2005 With Maskhadovs liquidation war in Chechnya | |might be finished, if the leader of Chechen|ends to 99 percent | |separatists Shamil Basayev is detained, |Ramzan Kadyrov, the first deputy premier of Chechnya, | |Chechen First Vice Prime Minister Ramzan |believes that with the liquidation of the separatists leader| |Kadyrov said. In this case "the war in |Aslan Maskhadov the war in Chechnya has ended to 99 percent.| |Chechnya will be over 99%," he told Western|He stated this at a meeting with foreign journalists in | |reporters on Wednesday. "This man is very |Gudermes on Wednesday. Kadyrov believes the situation in | |well financed, I will do my best to detain |Chechnya has stabilized to such an extent that the incidence| |him," Kadyrov said. Kadyrov denied the |of crime in the republic is no higher than in any other | |reports that Maskhadov had been killed by |subject of the Russian Federation. He believes it takes some| |his forces in Khasavyurt and then moved to |more effort to cope with the remaining percent for the | |Tolstoy-yurt, where he was found and |ultimate settlement. | |identified. "If this man had surrendered, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |everything would be different," Kadyrov |from Chechnya...) | |said. "He was my mortal enemy and I regret | | |that I couldn't detain him. If Maskhadov |17 Mart 2005 Alkhanov slams attempts to create negative | |had been killed by my people, I would have |image of Chechnya | |declared it straight away," he said. |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has criticized some media | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |groups and politicians for trying to portray the republic's | |section=newsarceng&rowid=20884&lng=eng] |people in a negative light. "We are all deeply outraged at | |more...) |the fact that many media outlets and certain politicians are| | |speaking about the Chechens as a people only capable of | |Six militants neutralized in Chechnya, |committing crimes," Alkhanov told a roundtable in Grozny on | |Dagestan, Ingushetia |Thursday. The session addressed preparations for Chechnya's | | |parliamentary elections. | |Police in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |have detained five militants and killed one|from Chechnya...) | |in the course of security sweeps carried | | |out on Monday, a source at the headquarters|17 Mart 2004 Germany to cure Beslan kids | |of the federal forces in the North Caucasus|330 Beslan children are arriving in Germany for a rest cure | |region told Tass on Tuesday. He said one of|and rehabilitation treatment. Seventy parents and teachers | |the militants was detained in the village |accompany them, Aid to Beslan Kids chiefs said to a news | |of Engel-Yurt, Chechnyas Gudermes district.|conference in Berlin today. The German charity was set up, | |According to police information, the man |January last. "I was appalled to see the heinous [school | |had taken part in the armed attack on |hostage-taking] terror act in Beslan. The German television | |police and civilians in the village of |was broadcasting the horrible scenes day and night. We came | |Ishkhoi-Yurt. A local resident detained in |quite spontaneously on an idea to invite the surviving | |the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt was a |children to Germany for recovery," said Heinz Gums, | |member of a bandit formation and |organization founder. The German public snatched at the | |participated in raids in the Novolakskaya |idea, and Russian authorities offered it support. Close on | |district and in neighboring Chechnya, he |250,000 Euro was raised. The kids are expected in Germany, | |said. A joint group of Chechen and Ingush |March 21, coming by special flights. As soon as they arrive,| |police on Monday detained two residents of |they will be delivered to a youth village, eighty kilometers| |Grozny in the village of Nesterovskaya on |off Berlin. The kids will have accommodations in cozy rooms,| |suspicion of robberies of residents in the |each for six. The village offers fine athletic and game | |Chechen capitals Staropromyslovski |facilities, and top-notch doctors and psychological experts.| |district. In the course of a sweep carried |There will be a diverse cultural program with hiking and | |out in the village Assinovskaya, Chechnyas |excursions. The philanthropists pledge to do all they can to| |Sunzha district, police killed a militant |help the children forget the tragedy they came through, say | |who earlier participated in the attack on |foundation activists. | |the Sunzha district police headquarters on |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |March 4. One policeman was killed and 18 |from Chechnya...) | |others wounded in that attack. During the | | |detention attempt the militant put up armed| ---------------------------------------------------------- | |resistance and was killed, the source said.| | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=| Russia - Chechnya | |eng] more...) | | | | Chechen culture | | Chechen history | | | |Literary Ties | | Chechnya | Questions and answers |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | | | | |To Reader |[5330] | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian| |ChechenRepublic | news| history| traditions|poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | || music |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | | |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina | |territory which has witnessed the most |Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother | |tragic events over the past decade. The |Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate | |book is the latest update on the Chechen |several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she | |Republic . And this is very important, |raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to | |since a lack of fresh and accurate |the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives.| |information about events in Chechnya |In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his | |generates many distorted conceptions and |death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 | |rumours - both within and outside Russia . |restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great | |For example, that Chechen society is |poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all | |allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that|restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in | |pro-Russian elements in the republic are |the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance.| |marginalised; and lastly, that Russian |The most important thing that its internal architecture, the| |power structures are fighting the Chechen |living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet| |people, rather than armed bandit groups. |may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum | |The reality, however, is that only with the|personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned | |return of the legitimate authorities are |person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the| |villages and towns being restored, children|museums director. The employees will be allocated part of | |going to school for the first time in many |the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in | |years, and pensioners receiving |search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and | |long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social |complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is | |rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a |passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, | |referendum on a new Chechen constitution, |restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on| |and parliamentary and presidential |it will receive its first visitors. | |elections. These votes will be held, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng& | |despite continued attempts by bandit groups|lng=eng] chechen culture ...) | |and their leaders to scupper the process of| | |normalisation in the republic, the latest | Chechen tarditions | |terrorist act being the bombing of the | | |republican government building. The war |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |being waged by Chechen separatists against |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |federal forces and more often than not |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |against their own co-citizens is by no | | |means a "national liberation struggle of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost | |the Chechen people", but an episode in the |important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is | |overall offensive by international |returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at | |terrorism on the fundamental principles of |the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs | |modern civilisation. The facts show that |his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm | |being a part of the Russian Federation in |of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that | |no way threatens the Chechen Republic 's |reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains| |cultural identity, the free use of its own |the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and | |language, and preaching Islam. On the |various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and| |contrary, it was during de facto |L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of | |"independence" from Russia that the Chechen|Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional | |people suffered a humanitarian tragedy on |family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic | |an unprecedented scale. Hostage-taking, the|ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi | |slave trade and plundering came to form the|Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |economic basis of the new regime, while |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |chaos and war became the form of its |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |political existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of Russia , | Chechen cuisine | |geographically, politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a hypothetical |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| | |triumph of radical Islamism on its |history| traditions| music | |territory would be anti-historical. Such a |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |development would signify the establishment|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |in the midst of Europe of a Taliban-like |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread| |regime, with all ensuing consequences for |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |the international community. The corporate |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |author - journalists of the Russian |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat | |Information Agency Novosti - have attempted|is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That| |to be as brief as possible on providing |was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th | |answers to the most-often aked questions |century. And it was not until the late 19th century that | |(above all posed by a foreign audience) |many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish | |about the Chechen issue. Hence the book's |- had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |title: " Chechnya : Questions and Answers".|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times | |It draws heavily on information provided by|immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and | |various Russian ministries and departments |sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they | |that in one or another way are involved in |have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic | |normalising life in the republic. |communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special | |Russian Information Agency Novosti |culinary traditions of their own. | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng& | |section=answerseng&lng=eng] in detail ...) |lng=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | Chechen economics | - | | | | |Chechnyas railway infrastructure is being |## | |reconstructed | | | |Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |[6161] Russian Railways Company spent 915 | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |million rubles for this purpose last year. | | |A share-holder company in the republic has | | |carried out all reconstruction work in the | | |railway infrastructure since 2004 under an | | |agreement between the two sides on joint | | |work. This means, reconstruction of railway| | |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, | | |Argun and Grozny have been reconstructed. | | |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