Actual News from Chechnya

News update

Twenty-eight big vehicles loaded with stolen oil products were detained in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. More than 80 tonnes of fuel and lubricants were also seized. Three stolen cars sough by federal police were found, and five cars with changed number units were also discovered. A Makarov pistol was seized from one of the drivers. These are results of the first day of the operation "Barrier" conducted by Chechen traffic and OMON special-purpose police to find stolen vehicles and stop operation of "the oil mafia", Chechen traffic police chief Lomali Kazimagomadov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
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Grozny's Oktyabrsky district court has sentenced Nizhnevartovsk interior department officer Sergei Lapin to 11 years in prison on abuse of office charges. Lapin was also barred from taking up jobs in the Interior Ministry for three years after he is released from prison. (more...)

Chechen history

Chechnya | Questions and answers

This pamphlet is about Chechnya, a Russian territory which has witnessed the most tragic events over the past decade. The book is the latest update on the Chechen Republic . And this is very important, since a lack of fresh and accurate information about events in Chechnya generates many distorted conceptions and rumours - both within and outside Russia . For example, that Chechen society is allegedly inherently alien to Russia , that pro-Russian elements in the republic are marginalised; and lastly, that Russian power structures are fighting the Chechen people, rather than armed bandit groups. The reality, however, is that only with the return of the legitimate authorities are villages and towns being restored, children going to school for the first time in many years, and pensioners receiving long-forgotten pensions, i.e. a social rebirth is underway. Lying ahead are a referendum on a new Chechen constitution, and parliamentary 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, the latest terrorist act being 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
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Chechen economics

Italy shows interest in Achxoi-Martan Company

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.
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Issue 276
31.03.05

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

31 Mart 2005  Twenty eight vehicles loaded with stolen oil found in Chechnya
The monetization of privileges started this year in Russia has apart from its peculiarities in different regions also highlighted a common problem in one or another area and healthcare in the Grozny rural region is not an exception. There is neither an X-ray room nor a fluorography center in a village of 120 thousand people and this is at a time when new cases of tuberculosis come to light everyday. Doctors can only dream of preventive work in the area. Tuberculosis and cancer are detected by doctors when patients report at the clinic at an advanced stage. The drugs store number 90, the only one in the Grozny village of Michurin that has been decreed by the health ministry to be attached to the rural region is inadequate for a region with such a huge population, the more so that the drugs store is just beginning to operate after repairs and supplies are just being brought to it from the central warehouse. The chief medical officer in the Gorechistochnesky hospital, Havazh Saidulayev has said that the regional health delivery service has enough problems to cope with but that money is the main one. But despite the enomous problems doctors are doing their best to give good services to the population. Residents of the Gorechenstochneskaya Stanitsa speak highly about their hospital whose polyclinic section can serve 200 patients in a shift and the hospital as a whole has 90 beds. It has a general, children, and maternity and gynecology sections. It receives sufficient supply of medicines. In-patients receive drugs under an agreement between the hospital and the medical insurance Foundation which guarantees a one hundred per cent supply of medicines. Out-patients are supplied by the health ministry when drugs are available. In serious cases doctors can prescribe even the most expensive drugs after getting a clearance from an expert commission. The chief medical officer says that compared to most other medical institutions in Chechnya his hospital boasts of 80 per cent staffing with qualified personnel but there are acute shortages of pediatricians, general practitioners and ENT (ear, nose and throat specialists) In an emergency surgery patients are rushed by ambulance to Grozny. Havazh Saidulayev and other doctors in the Grozny rural region are hoping that all the problems of the regional healthcare delivery will be solved this year.
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30 Mart 2005  Guerilla from Basayev's group detained in Chechnya
A member of a group led by prominent guerilla leader Shamil Basayev has been detained in Chechnya, a spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax. The detainee, whose name has not been disclosed, is a resident of Shali, he said. The spokesman said the guerilla was involved in a series of terrorist attacks committed in the Shali district in 2003-2004.
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30 Mart 2004  Three Russian servicemen wounded in bomb explosion in Chechnya
A car with servicemen of the Russian Interior Ministry hit a mine planted on the motor road between the villages of Germenchuk and Mesker-Yurt in Chechnyas Shalinsky region. As Itar-Tass learnt at the Chechen Interior Ministry, a battalion deputy commander and two servicemen under his command got different injuries in the explosion. All of them were hospitalised. Criminal proceedings were instituted. Investigation of the incident is in progress.
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen culture

The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he went there for the last time shortly before his death. The building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The employees will engage in search of items and materials of Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors.
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Chechen tarditions

The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen State University, writer and publicist directs his book to youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted to customs and traditions of Chechens.
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Chechen cuisine

"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. And it was not until the late 19th century that many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of their own.
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