The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 278 | | | 08.04.05 | |Three attackers on police killed| | |in Grozny |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Chechen police have killed three|08 April 2005 The Red Cross is to help small business in | |militants in the Grozny suburb |Chechnya | |of Prigorodnoye. Unknown |For several years now the Red Cross has been engaged in | |attackers fired on a car |various works in Chechnya and according to a Red Cross | |carrying police from western |official there are plans to start micro-economic projects in | |Siberias Kurgan Region, near the|the republic and involved in the projects will be families who| |Minutka Square in central Grozny|have benefited from humanitarian help. There are some 50 | |on Wednesday, Chechnyas Interior|thousands of such in Chechnya. Residents are to submit | |Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told |business plans, describing details of projects relating to the| |Tass on Thursday. Four policemen|setting up of a mini private enterprise that will bring them | |were wounded in the attack. They|regular income and a long term support. The Red Cross plans to| |reported it to the Interior |give 100 grants to families having their own business plans | |Ministry which launched a |and projects, thus making the Red Cross help in Chechnya more | |pursuit, he said. The minister |effective. This much has been said by an official of the Red | |said the gangsters had been |Cross, Marco Alter, speaking at a meeting with the first | |trapped in the Prigorodnoye |deputy to the presidents envoy in the Southern Federal | |settlement and killed in the |District, Victor Anpilogov during his visit. The project | |shootout. They were all members |relates to the rendering of help to Chechen citizens, a | |of the Argun militant grouping. |project which the Red Cross has begun in Chechnya since | |Identities of two attackers have|November of last year. It involves helping the small | |been established, they are |businessman or woman and its essence is that Chechens will | |Beslan Uzarov and Aturkhan |apply to the Red Cross giving details of business plans for | |Tesumov, the minister said. The |the setting up of a private enterprise. Last year, under a | |gunmen, who were hiding in a |pilot scheme, applications were received for the provision of | |deserted house, were killed by |a pop corn making machine and for a device for gas welding. If| |return fire. A sub-machine gun, |a business plan is considered promising the appropriate | |a pistol, two grenades and about|equipment are given out. If a family decides to engage in | |100 cartridges for firearms were|private business and its business plan is endorsed, such a | |found at the site of the |family is removed from the list of recipients of humanitarian | |incident. He also said the |assistance after three months. The Red Cross has been | |destroyed militants had been |operating that scheme in different countries, like Bosnia. The| |involved in a number of grave |Red Cross humanitarian efforts are currently concentrated in | |crimes in the republic. An |North Caucasus and the Society is this year spending 26 | |operation to neutralise their |million dollars, with the lion share of the money being spent | |possible accomplices is underway|on humanitarian help to that region. | |in the outskirts of Grozny. |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Chechnya...) | |index.php?section=newsarceng& | | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |07 April 2005 Perpetrator of Several Crimes Ordered By | | |Foreign Extremist Centres Arrested | |Work to clear southern Russia of|Adam Jabrailov, 30, who resided in the Chechen settlement of | |diehard militants continuing |Shali before he got involved in criminal activity, has been | | |apprehended, reported the North Caucasus Counter-Terrorist | |The southern branch of the |Regional Operations HQ. Jabrailov was a relative of the most | |Russian Interior Ministry has |notorious warlords - Arbi and Movsar Baraev, who had strong | |neutralised more than 40 active |contacts with international terrorist groups. These bandits | |members of bands since the |were implicated in many murders, abductions of local residents| |beginning of this year. A source|and foreigners. Jabrailov and the Baraevs prepared and | |in the Interior Ministry told |committed a lot of terrorist attacks, including the Moscow | |Itar-Tass on Wednesday that the |theatre siege, which caused huge casualties. The HQ noted | |number did not include gunmen |Jabrailov was involved in an array of crimes, ordered by | |who were captured or killed by |overseas extremist centres. The most heinous of them was | |local police or in special |capturing three Britons and a New Zealander, who had arrived | |operations of troops. Workers of|in Chechnya to built telephone networks there. The gang issued| |the operational search bureau of|a $3m ransom demand but shot dead the hostages and decapitated| |the Southern Federal District |them on Arbi Baraevs order in October 1998. The victims heads | |work not simply on so-called |were then exhibited on a side of the Rostov-Baku highway. | |infantry; a main goal of |These were not the only crimes committed by Baraevs gang, of | |operatives are medium and top |which Jabrailov was a member, the HQ advised. They were also | |level commanders. The source |responsible for abductions and murders of Red Cross officers. | |cited as example the liquidation|It was them who killed Doctors Without Borders employees. It | |of Rizvan Chitigov in Chechnyas |was them who shelled the polling station set in a Mesker-Yurt | |capital Grozny two weeks ago. He|school for the Chechen Constitution referendum and killed two | |was involved in the murder of |military driving in a car half a year later. And this is not | |four nationals of Britain and a |the full list of the savage acts the terrorists perpetrated. | |New Zealander. Chitigov was a |Preliminary investigation has shown Jabrailov maintained | |so-called emir of the council of|contacts with international terrorist groups, including Arab | |mujahiddins of Chechnya and |mercenaries that operated in Chechnya. He is also said to have| |Dagestan. Captured militants |been a strong advocate of wahhabi ideas. His accomplices are | |have been cooperating with law |being identified at the moment to face prosecution soon. No | |enforces recently, disclosing |matter how long ago they perpetrated their crimes, there is no| |sites of arms caches and |way any of the bandits can get away with what they did. | |addresses of members of their |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |bands. Law enforcement agencies |Chechnya...) | |are of the opinion that this | | |indicates that most of militants|07 April 2004 Chechnya to beef up security during May 9 | |realise uselessness of the armed|celebrations | |struggle. Work to clear the |The Chechen authorities said the republic's law enforcement | |region of so-called diehards |agencies will step up security in public places during the | |will be continued, the source |celebrations on May 9 marking the 60th anniversary of the | |said. ([http:// |Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. "A number of events are | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |being planned in Grozny on this day. Thousands of residents | |lng=eng] more...) |are expected to take part in them. And each of these people | | |should be confident that nothing threatens them," Chechen | | Chechen history |State Council chairman Taus Dzhabrailov told Interfax on | | |Wednesday. "There is a real threat of terrorist attack being | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|staged on this day. This problem should be taken seriously," | | |he said. | |To Reader |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Chechnya...) | |ChechenRepublic | news| history|| | |traditions| music | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,| Russia - Chechnya | |a Russian territory which has | | |witnessed the most tragic events| Chechen culture | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the |Literary Ties | |Chechen Republic . And this is |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information |[5330] | |about events in Chechnya |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |generates many distorted |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |conceptions and rumours - both |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |within and outside Russia . For |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |example, that Chechen society is|retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |allegedly inherently alien to |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |elements in the republic are |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |marginalised; and lastly, that |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |Russian power structures are |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |fighting the Chechen people, |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |rather than armed bandit groups.|building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |The reality, however, is that |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |only with the return of the |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |legitimate authorities are |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |villages and towns being |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |restored, children going to |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |school for the first time in |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |many years, and pensioners |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |receiving long-forgotten |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |referendum on a new Chechen |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |constitution, and parliamentary |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |and presidential elections. |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |These votes will be held, |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |despite continued attempts by |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |bandit groups and their leaders |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |to scupper the process of |eng] chechen culture ...) | |normalisation in the republic, | | |the latest terrorist act being | Chechen tarditions | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |being waged by Chechen |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |separatists against federal |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |by no means a "national |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |liberation struggle of the |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Chechen people", but an episode |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |in the overall offensive by |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |international terrorism on the |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |fundamental principles of modern|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |civilisation. The facts show |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |that being a part of the Russian|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Federation in no way threatens |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |identity, the free use of its |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |own language, and preaching |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Islam. On the contrary, it was |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |during de facto "independence" |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |from Russia that the Chechen |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |people suffered a humanitarian | | |tragedy on an unprecedented | Chechen cuisine | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |form the economic basis of the |traditions| music | |new regime, while chaos and war |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |became the form of its political|extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |existence. We want to emphasise |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |once more: Chechnya is part of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Russia , geographically, |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |politically and |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |civilisation-wise. So a |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |hypothetical triumph of radical |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Islamism on its territory would |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |be anti-historical. Such a |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |development would signify the |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |establishment in the midst of |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |with all ensuing consequences |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |for the international community.|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |The corporate author - |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |journalists of the Russian |their own. | |Information Agency Novosti - |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |have attempted to be as brief as|eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Answers". It draws heavily on | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |The Nurenergo Workers Have Been | | |Awarded the Businesslike Woman | | |Medals | | | | | |[6263] The world artistic | | |movement and the world assembly | | |of public recognition, which | | |include the representatives of | | |public organizations from 34 | | |countries and workers in the | | |arts , science and culture, have| | |given the Businesslike Woman | | |medals to the Nurenergo workers.| | |Among those who were awarded are| | |the head of the Nurenergo social| | |development and economic | | |activities department Raisa | | |Umarova and the accountant | | |general Lyubov Isayeva. The | | |awarding ceremony took place in | | |Grozny in mid-March. The | | |medal-giver was the president of| | |the North Caucasus office of the| | |world artistic movement and of | | |the world assembly of public | | |recognition A. Betuganov. He | | |said that it is for the first | | |time that the world artistic | | |movement, whose task is to | | |promote the assimilation of | | |cultures of the North Caucasus | | |peoples held such a ceremony in | | |Chechnya. A. Betuganov has given| | |reasons for awarding medals to | | |Raisa Umarova and Lyubov | | |Isayeva, emphasizing that during| | |the former hostilities in | | |Chechnya they worked with great | | |enthusiasm to restore its energy| | |sector and held equally | | |difficult jobs with men. Raisa | | |Umarova graduated from the | | |Chechen-Ingush State Pedagogical| | |University in 1980. In 1987 she | | |graduated from the Grozny Oil | | |Institute. She has the | | |profession of an economist and | | |that of a historian. She worked | | |as a teacher in the Urus - | | |Martan Village, and then as an | | |economist in the State Tax | | |Inspection. She started working | | |in the Nurenergo Company in | | |1993. She is a good organizer, | | |has much experience in resolving| | |economic tasks and is very good | | |at creating normal conditions | | |for the work and rest of the | | |Nurenergo workers. Lyubov | | |Isayeva graduated from the | | |Grozny Oil Institute as an | | |economist. At first she worked | | |as accountant in the Grozenergo | | |Company and then as accountant | | |general of the energy industry | | |supervising agency | | |(Energonadzor). Since December | | |of 2001 she has been accountant | | |general of Nurenergo. Her | | |colleagues say that she is | | |hard-working and praise her for | | |her high performance, high | | |responsibility, and high | | |professionalism. Everybody knows| | |that she offered great help in | | |the restoration of Chechnyas | | |energy sector. She continues her| | |work to launch the companys | | |economic mechanism. The | | |Nurenergo staff members approved| | |Raisa Umarova and Lyubov | | |Isayevas receiving the | | |Businesslike Woman medals. | | |([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