The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 274 | | | 24.03.05 | |Prominent Chechen guerilla | | |Chitigov killed |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Prominent Chechen guerilla |24 Mart 2005 Chechen official praises successful operation | |leader Rizvan Chitigov has been |against militants | |killed in a special operation in|Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said the| |the Shali district, the |destruction of gang leader Rizvan Chitigov is a serious blow | |headquarters of the Russian |to the whole criminal underworld and, foremost, to the Arab | |Combined Federal Forces in the |mercenaries still operating in the republic. "Chitigov was | |North Caucasus told Interfax. |closely connected to well-known Arab mercenaries, such as | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Khattab and Abu al-Walid. In his actions, he was free from | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Maskhadov and Basayev, both in financial matters and | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |decision-making; he received funding directly from abroad and | | |therefore could talk with the chief separatists as an equal, | |Thousands of servicemen deployed|Kadyrov told Itar-Tass in comments on the results of the | |on Chechnya-Ingushetia border |police operation. To a certain extent, their relations were | | |hostile. At one point, Chitigov tried to assassinate | |A total of 4,500 policemen and |Maskhadov, but both attempts failed. According to Kadyrov, the| |servicemen of interior troops |destroyed militant was a top demolition expert. He instructed | |ensure security on the |Arabs and was involved in almost 90 percent of high profile | |administrative border between |bomb attacks in Chechnya. He commanded a large group of | |Chechnya and Ingushetia, Russian|militants. It included the gang which joined him after federal| |Interior Minister Rashid |forces destroyed their chief Arbi Barayev. Rizvan Chitigov | |Nurgaliyev said. He said in |offered resistance to law-enforcement bodies and was destroyed| |parliaments upper house on |in his house in the town of Shali on Wednesday afternoon, in a| |Wednesday that the 640-kilometer|joint operation by Chechen police and the presidential | |border between the two republics|security service. | |is divided into four operational|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |areas. Special attention is |Chechnya...) | |given there to crime detection. | | |Nurgaliyev said the 126th |24 Mart 2005 Six Chechen militants detained over past day | |regiment of interior troops |Chechen law enforcement agencies detained six militants in the| |handled tasks to localise |republic over the past day. Target operations have been | |possible armed intrusions and |carried out in the Shali, Urus-Martan, Nozhai-Yurt and | |terrorist acts jointly with |Gudermes districts. Four out of six detained militants have | |groups of operational control. |already confessed that they have been involved in terrorist | |Such groups, whose total |acts and attacks on military columns, the operational | |strength is 19,000 servicemen, |department of the republican Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.| |have been set up in 12 regions |Two detained residents of Goity in the Urus-Martan district | |of the Southern Federal |were militants. During a search in the yard of the house where| |District. As for the appointment|the detainees lived caches with arms and ammunition were | |of Ingushetias interior |found. | |minister, Nurgaliyev said the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |decision would be made after the|Chechnya...) | |completion of a parliamentary | | |probe into Septembers |24 Mart 2004 Talks with separatist leaders impossible - | |hostage-taking raid of a school |Chechen president | |in Beslan. Terrorists then |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov stated that he is prepared to | |entered the city from |deal with anyone advocating a peaceful solution to the | |Ingushetia. ([http:// |conflict in Chechnya, but said he opposes dialogue with Shamil| |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Basayev and Akhmed Zakayev. "I'm not ready to talk with | |lng=eng] more...) |Basayev and did not plan to deal with Maskhadov. These people | | |will not assume any tasks that would benefit our people. It | | Chechen history |would be an empty talk," Alkhanov told a news conference at | | |the Interfax main office in Moscow on Wednesday. He said | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|proposals for negotiations with the guerilla leaders is a | | |trite subject. "Some profit from it, while others use it to | |To Reader |make money," the Chechen president said. | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechnya...) | |traditions| music | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,| | |a Russian territory which has | Russia - Chechnya | |witnessed the most tragic events| | |over the past decade. The book | Chechen culture | |is the latest update on the | | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Literary Ties | |very important, since a lack of |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya |[5330] | |generates many distorted |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |conceptions and rumours - both |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |within and outside Russia . For |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |example, that Chechen society is|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |allegedly inherently alien to |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |Russia , that pro-Russian |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |elements in the republic are |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |marginalised; and lastly, that |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |Russian power structures are |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |fighting the Chechen people, |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |rather than armed bandit groups.|went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |The reality, however, is that |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |only with the return of the |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |legitimate authorities are |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |villages and towns being |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |restored, children going to |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |school for the first time in |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |many years, and pensioners |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |receiving long-forgotten |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |referendum on a new Chechen |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |constitution, and parliamentary |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |and presidential elections. |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |These votes will be held, |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |despite continued attempts by |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |bandit groups and their leaders |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |to scupper the process of |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |normalisation in the republic, |eng] chechen culture ...) | |the latest terrorist act being | | |the bombing of the republican | Chechen tarditions | |government building. The war | | |being waged by Chechen |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |separatists against federal |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |forces and more often than not |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |against their own co-citizens is| | |by no means a "national |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |liberation struggle of the |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |Chechen people", but an episode |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |in the overall offensive by |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |international terrorism on the |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |fundamental principles of modern|ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |civilisation. The facts show |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |that being a part of the Russian|on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |Federation in no way threatens |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |identity, the free use of its |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |own language, and preaching |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |during de facto "independence" |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |from Russia that the Chechen |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |people suffered a humanitarian |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| Chechen cuisine | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |new regime, while chaos and war |traditions| music | |became the form of its political|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |existence. We want to emphasise |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |once more: Chechnya is part of |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Russia , geographically, |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |politically and |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |civilisation-wise. So a |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |hypothetical triumph of radical |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Islamism on its territory would |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |be anti-historical. Such a |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |development would signify the |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |establishment in the midst of |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |with all ensuing consequences |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |for the international community.|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |The corporate author - |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |journalists of the Russian |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Information Agency Novosti - |their own. | |have attempted to be as brief as|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |possible on providing answers to|eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |information provided by various | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | | | | |Italy shows interest in | | |Achxoi-Martan Company | | | | | |[6221] The Achxoi-Martan company| | |Teplostroiproekt-S or Heat | | |creation project-S is a private | | |firm that has for ten years now | | |been producing heating systems | | |of international standards. Many| | |regions in Russia are showing | | |interest in the companys | | |products and the activity of the| | |enterprise has been praised by | | |the Chechen Prime Minister, | | |Sergei Abramov. Officials of the| | |firm have recently taken part in| | |an international exhibition held| | |in Moscow in one of the | | |pavilions of the Exhibition | | |center. The exhibition was | | |devoted to climate equipment and| | |apart from Achxoi-Martan several| | |other countries in the business | | |of producing heating systems | | |like Sweden, Germany, Spain and | | |Italy took part in the | | |exhibition. After winning the | | |2003 competition called 100 best| | |goods of Russia the | | |Achxoi-Martan company was | | |invited by officials of the | | |Exhibition center to take part | | |in the above mentioned | | |exhibition. At the exhibition | | |officials from Siberia and the | | |Far East showed interested in | | |the products of the firm from | | |Achxoi-Martan and want to | | |establish a branch of the | | |company in their regions to | | |complete the building of their | | |boilers. Representatives of the | | |company from Achxoi-Martan | | |briefed them about the technical| | |details of their project. Soon a| | |programme based on those | | |technical details will begin to | | |be realized. Kazakhstan has also| | |displayed interest in the | | |products of the Achxoi-Martan | | |firm since Italy has supplied | | |similar items to Kazakhstan. | | |After studying technical details| | |of the Heat creating project-S | | |Italy changed its investment | | |plans and now want to supply | | |complete parts to the Chechen | | |Company which in turn will | | |assemble module boilers to be | | |sent to Kazakhstan. The investor| | |and main contractor is Italy | | |while Kazakhstan is the client. | | |([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