The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site. All | | |aboutChechnya| news| history| traditions| | Actual News from Chechnya | |music | | |-------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 273 | | | 21.03.05 | |Internet develops in Chechnya | | | |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |The Internet is developing in the Chechen | | |Republic though a year ago there was no |21 Mart 2005 Initiator of a round table on Chechnya hopes | |access to the global network even at the |for its success | |local Ministry of the Press, Chechen Press |Initiator of the round table on Chechnya in Strasbourg, | |Minister Movsur Ibragimov told Noviye |Swiss parliamentarian Andreas Gross hopes that the event | |Izvestia. The ministry is creating a site |will be successful and it will not be the last. "It is the | |where users from Russia and abroad will get|first meeting in this format and I hope that everything is | |information about the events and problems |going to be great in Strasbourg on Monday," Gross announced | |in the republic. Access to the Internet |in an interview with RIA Novosti. He said, "we have been | |will be provided for both officials and |working for six months on this project together with the | |residents in Chechnya. An Internet center |Russian delegation to PACE." Gross underlined, "we had to | |has been opened at the university in |work in difficult conditions due to complications caused by | |Grozny. For years young Chechens grew up |Maskhadov's death. Many people started to doubt the | |without knowing what a computer is. |possibility of the round table, although everything seems to| |Computers became accessible only in 2000, |be ready for the event at present." The major goals of the | |and now Chechens win prizes in computer |round table is to consolidate efforts in the search for the | |games competitions. Unfortunately, the |solution of the situation in Chechnya, Gross believes. The | |opinions of the Chechen authorities, |European parliamentarian specifically stressed that | |including President Alu Alkhanov and the |"individuals who are suspected of links with terrorists and | |government, are presented very modestly in |accept their methods of struggle will not be allowed to | |the Internet. But the press minister is |participate in the work of the round table." Sixty experts | |against banning the site of Chechen |are expected to participate in the event. Among the | |militants, arguing that [more sites should |participants are representatives of the Russian leadership | |be opened so that] it would not be the only|(for instance, Vladimir Lukin, Human Rights Commissioner in | |source of information about the events in |Russia, is expected to arrive in Strasbourg), PACE members | |Chechnya. When the Chechen government is |(parliamentarians from the groups on Chechnya, on human | |presented in the Internet at its full |rights and on humanitarian issues), representatives of the | |potential, the interest for the militants' |Chechen community and non-governmental organizations. | |resources will fall. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |from Chechnya...) | |section=newsarceng&rowid=20884&lng=eng] | | |more...) |21 Mart 2005 Chechen delegation in Strasbourg won't discuss| | |Chechnya's status - Alkhanov | |Plastic surgery to those who give up |The Chechen delegation will not discuss issues related to | |hardline Chechen rebel: FSB |the political organization of the Chechen republic or its | | |status, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told Interfax on | |Russia's FSB security service said |Friday. "These issues are not on currently on the agenda for| |Wednesday that plastic surgery would be |the Chechen people. Such a problem does not exist. It was | |available to those who help capture |resolved two years ago at an all-Chechen referendum and we | |Chechnya's hardline rebel chief Shamil |will not discuss a made-up topic," Alkhanov said. The | |Basayev. Anyone who provides information |Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is planning | |that would lead to the location and capture|to have a roundtable on Chechnya in Strasbourg on March 21. | |of Basayev would be protected by the |"The Chechen people have defined their own status by | |nation's witness law, said FSB spokesman |accepting a constitution which clearly states the Chechen | |Sergei Ignatchenko. The law provides |republic is a part of the Russian Federation," Alkhanov | |witnesses with "physical defense on the |said. | |part of law enforcement officials, the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |possibility of changing passport data, |from Chechnya...) | |residence and if necessary plastic surgery | | |to change appearance," the ITAR-TASS news |21 Mart 2004 Roundtable on Chechnya opens in Strasbourg | |agency quoted him as saying. "We know how |A meeting of the roundtable on Chechnya-related issues is | |to keep secrets," said the spokesman for |opening at the Council of Europe's Strasbourg headquarters | |the FSB successor agency. The statement |on Monday. The initiative was put forward by Andreas Gross, | |came a day after the FSB announced that a |a rapporteur on Chechnya, during debates at the | |10-million-dollar bounty had helped it |Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) last | |locate and kill moderate Chechen rebel |fall. The Russian delegation backed the idea. A special PACE| |chief Aslan Maskhadov last week and said it|resolution set out relevant conditions. It read the | |was ready to pay another 10 million for |roundtable would take place on condition its participants | |information leading to Basayev's capture. |recognize Russia's territorial integrity and condemn | |"The reward will be paid to anyone, be they|terrorism as means of achieving objectives. Gross said in a | |citizens of Russia or any other country if |RIA Novosti interview the day before the first meeting that | |the information that they provide to |the roundtable was designed to consolidate efforts for | |Russian special forces aids in the capture |settling the Chechnya problem. Gross believes problems | |or neutralization of Basayev," Ignatchenko |facing the Chechen Republic should be tackled above all | |said Wednesday. "We're not concerned with |through dialogue. Gross noted the openness of the Russian | |georgaphy in this matter," he said. |delegation that helped prepare the meeting. Gross said many | |Basayev's is Chechnya's most notorious |PACE members doubted the wisdom of holding the meeting, | |warlord, who has claimed responsibility for|particularly after Aslan Maskhadov's death. "Today all the | |some of the most spectacular attacks in |apprehensions and doubts are past," said Gross. All | |Russia, incuding last year's Beslan school |Chechnya-related issues will be discussed at the roundtable | |hostage taking, which killed more than 340 |meeting on Monday, according to Gross. He did not rule out | |people, half of them children. He is widely|that they also could discuss Europe's economic aid to the | |expected to assume the leadership of |republic. About 60 persons are expected to take part in the | |Chechnya's separatists following |roundtable on Chechnya. Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, | |Maskhadov's death last week, despite the |Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, Dmitry Kozak,| |announcement by the rebels that their |the Russian president's envoy to the Southern Federal | |leader from now on would be Abdul-Khalim |District, PACE members, and members of Chechen society and | |Sadullayev, a relative unknown who is not |non-government organizations are expected to participate. | |thought to have much battlefield experience|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News | |. ([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |from Chechnya...) | |lng=eng] more...) | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | Chechen history | | | | Russia - Chechnya | | Chechnya | Questions and answers | | | | Chechen culture | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Literary Ties | |ChechenRepublic | news| history| traditions|Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | || music | | | |[5330] | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian| |territory which has witnessed the most |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |tragic events over the past decade. The |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |book is the latest update on the Chechen |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |Republic . And this is very important, |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina | |since a lack of fresh and accurate |Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother | |information about events in Chechnya |Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate | |generates many distorted conceptions and |several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she | |rumours - both within and outside Russia . |raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to | |For example, that Chechen society is |the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives.| |allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that|In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his | |pro-Russian elements in the republic are |death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 | |marginalised; and lastly, that Russian |restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great | |power structures are fighting the Chechen |poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all | |people, rather than armed bandit groups. |restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in | |The reality, however, is that only with the|the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance.| |return of the legitimate authorities are |The most important thing that its internal architecture, the| |villages and towns being restored, children|living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet| |going to school for the first time in many |may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum | |years, and pensioners receiving |personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned | |long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social |person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the| |rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a |museums director. The employees will be allocated part of | |referendum on a new Chechen constitution, |the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in | |and parliamentary and presidential |search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and | |elections. These votes will be held, |complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is | |despite continued attempts by bandit groups|passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, | |and their leaders to scupper the process of|restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on| |normalisation in the republic, the latest |it will receive its first visitors. | |terrorist act being the bombing of the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng& | |republican government building. The war |lng=eng] chechen culture ...) | |being waged by Chechen separatists against | | |federal forces and more often than not | Chechen tarditions | |against their own co-citizens is by no | | |means a "national liberation struggle of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |the Chechen people", but an episode in the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |overall offensive by international |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |terrorism on the fundamental principles of | | |modern civilisation. The facts show that |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost | |being a part of the Russian Federation in |important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is | |no way threatens the Chechen Republic 's |returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at | |cultural identity, the free use of its own |the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs | |language, and preaching Islam. On the |his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm | |contrary, it was during de facto |of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that | |"independence" from Russia that the Chechen|reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains| |people suffered a humanitarian tragedy on |the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and | |an unprecedented scale. Hostage-taking, the|various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and| |slave trade and plundering came to form the|L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of | |economic basis of the new regime, while |Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional | |chaos and war became the form of its |family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic | |political existence. We want to emphasise |ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi | |once more: Chechnya is part of Russia , |Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |geographically, politically and |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |civilisation-wise. So a hypothetical |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |triumph of radical Islamism on its | | |territory would be anti-historical. Such a | Chechen cuisine | |development would signify the establishment| | |in the midst of Europe of a Taliban-like |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| | |regime, with all ensuing consequences for |history| traditions| music | |the international community. The corporate |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |author - journalists of the Russian |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Information Agency Novosti - have attempted|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread| |to be as brief as possible on providing |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |answers to the most-often aked questions |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |(above all posed by a foreign audience) |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat | |about the Chechen issue. Hence the book's |is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That| |title: " Chechnya : Questions and Answers".|was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th | |It draws heavily on information provided by|century. And it was not until the late 19th century that | |various Russian ministries and departments |many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish | |that in one or another way are involved in |- had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |normalising life in the republic. |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times | |Russian Information Agency Novosti |immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they | |section=answerseng&lng=eng] in detail ...) |have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic | | |communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special | | Chechen economics |culinary traditions of their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng& | |Chechnyas railway infrastructure is being |lng=eng] in detail ...) | |reconstructed | | | | - | |[6161] Russian Railways Company spent 915 | | |million rubles for this purpose last year. |## | |A share-holder company in the republic has | | |carried out all reconstruction work in the |Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |railway infrastructure since 2004 under an | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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