The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 279 | | | 11.04.05 | |Two boys injured in Chechnya by | | |bomb explosions |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Chechen militants continue to |11 April 2005 Two guerrilla leaders killed in Chechnya | |use explosive devices, |Two militant leaders were eliminated in the suburbs of Grozny,| |camouflaged as the objects, |the capital of Chechnya, on Sunday. "Dzhambulat Chedayev, the | |which could be an attraction for|emir of the Vedeno region, who arrived in Grozny to stage | |children. Two children were |terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage, and Artur Barsunkayev,| |injured by such explosive |the emir of Chernorechye, were eliminated when they opened | |devices last Sunday, a |fire on law enforcement units trying to detain them," Chechen | |representative of the Regional |Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Russia's NTV | |Operational Staff for control |television. The anti-guerrilla operation was carried out by | |over the counterterrorist |Chechnya's regiment named after the republic's late President | |operation in the Northern |Akhmad Kadyrov. "The militants were preparing a series of | |Caucasus told Itar-Tass. Arbi |terrorist attacks in Grozny on Shamil Basayev's orders," | |Arsanukayev, nine years old, |Alkhanov said. | |from the Staropromyslovsky |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |District of Grozny, got numerous|Chechnya...) | |shrapnel wounds. According to | | |the information of the boy, he |11 April 2005 Chechen government delegates to visit Germany | |found a thing on the road, which|next month | |he could not identify. When he |A Chechen government delegation will visit Germany, May, to | |picked it up, it exploded right |discuss tentative joint ventures for German participation in | |in his hands, said the officer |rehabilitating the Chechen economy, republican President Alu | |of the Regional Staff. Another |Alkhanov said in Hanover today. A European Union delegation | |incident took place in the |will visit Chechnya, April 13-14, to discuss European | |village of Makhkety, Vedeno |countries' contribution to Chechen rehabilitation, he said to | |District, with Ilyas Gatsayev, |Russian journalists. Chechnya is not represented at the | |15 years old. The boy was |current Hanover industrial fair, but his visit to it is | |injured by the explosion of the |useful, nevertheless, what with future-oriented economic | |bomb laid by terrorists, when he|contracts budding at this major event, said President | |and other children were playing |Alkhanov. Chechnya intends to start a pavilion at the | |in the building of an abandoned |Moscow-based All-Russia Exposition Center, and related talks | |farm. The terrorists found out |are well underway, he added. | |well in advance that the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |building was often visited by |Chechnya...) | |children, who came there to | | |play, he continued. Both boys |11 April 2004 European Commission to allocate funds for aid | |are staying in hospitals. Search|to NCaucasus | |groups are looking for the |The European Commission will allocate 22.5 million euro as the| |terrorists, who committed those |first tranche of aid to the North Caucasus this year, Marc | |crimes. |Franco, the head of the European Commissions mission in the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |Russian Federation, told a news conference devoted to | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |humanitarian activity of the European Commission in the North | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |Caucasus. He said a large part of the funds allocated for the | | |North Caucasus would go to Chechnya. This aid will be meant | |European Commission delegation |for refugees and the most vulnerable sections of the | |to visit North Caucasus |population, Franco said. It will comprise every area: legal | | |and psychological aid, supplying food products and means of | |A delegation from the European |hygiene, giving temporary shelter and education, he said. The | |Commission will visit the North |programme will be implemented by specialized United Nations | |Caucasus region early next week,|agencies and some non-governmental organizations. Philippe | |a source in the European |Royan, the European Unions top aid official in Moscow, said a | |Commission's office in Moscow |delegation of the European Commission would visit Chechnya | |told Interfax on Friday. "The EC|next week to study the scope in which the European Unions | |mission is planning to visit the|contribution is required. He said it would help establish the | |North Caucasus on April 11 to |needs and priorities. The possibility of additional programmes| |study the situation in the |outside the framework of humanitarian aid will also be | |region in order to provide EU |considered. | |aid to the region's social and |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |economic restoration," the |Chechnya...) | |source said. He said that EU | | |representatives are planning to | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |visit Chechnya, North Ossetia | | |and Ingushetia. ([http:// | Russia - Chechnya | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? | | |lng=eng] more...) | Chechen culture | | | | | Chechen history |Literary Ties | | |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |Chechnya | Questions and answers| | | |[5330] | |To Reader |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |traditions| music |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | | |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |a Russian territory which has |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |witnessed the most tragic events|times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |over the past decade. The book |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |is the latest update on the |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |Chechen Republic . And this is |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |very important, since a lack of |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |fresh and accurate information |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |about events in Chechnya |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |generates many distorted |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |conceptions and rumours - both |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |within and outside Russia . For |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |example, that Chechen society is|and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |allegedly inherently alien to |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |elements in the republic are |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |marginalised; and lastly, that |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |Russian power structures are |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |fighting the Chechen people, |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |rather than armed bandit groups.|as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |The reality, however, is that |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |only with the return of the |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |legitimate authorities are |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |villages and towns being |eng] chechen culture ...) | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in | Chechen tarditions | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |and presidential elections. |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |These votes will be held, |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |despite continued attempts by |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |bandit groups and their leaders |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |to scupper the process of |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |normalisation in the republic, |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |the latest terrorist act being |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |the bombing of the republican |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |government building. The war |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |being waged by Chechen |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |separatists against federal |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |forces and more often than not |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |against their own co-citizens is|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |by no means a "national |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |liberation struggle of the |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by | Chechen cuisine | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |civilisation. The facts show |traditions| music | |that being a part of the Russian|"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Federation in no way threatens |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |identity, the free use of its |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |own language, and preaching |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |during de facto "independence" |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |from Russia that the Chechen |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |people suffered a humanitarian |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |tragedy on an unprecedented |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |trade and plundering came to |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |form the economic basis of the |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |new regime, while chaos and war |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |became the form of its political|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |existence. We want to emphasise |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |once more: Chechnya is part of |their own. | |Russia , geographically, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |politically and |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |The Red Cross is to help small | | |business in Chechnya | | | | | |[3114] For several years now the| | |Red Cross has been engaged in | | |various works in Chechnya and | | |according to a Red Cross | | |official there are plans to | | |start micro-economic projects in| | |the republic and involved in the| | |projects will be families who | | |have benefited from humanitarian| | |help. There are some 50 | | |thousands of such in Chechnya. | | |Residents are to submit business| | |plans, describing details of | | |projects relating to the setting| | |up of a mini private enterprise | | |that will bring them regular | | |income and a long term support. | | |The Red Cross plans to give 100 | | |grants to families having their | | |own business plans and projects,| | |thus making the Red Cross help | | |in Chechnya more effective. This| | |much has been said by an | | |official of the Red Cross, Marco| | |Alter, speaking at a meeting | | |with the first deputy to the | | |presidents envoy in the Southern| | |Federal District, Victor | | |Anpilogov during his visit. The | | |project relates to the rendering| | |of help to Chechen citizens, a | | |project which the Red Cross has | | |begun in Chechnya since November| | |of last year. It involves | | |helping the small businessman or| | |woman and its essence is that | | |Chechens will apply to the Red | | |Cross giving details of business| | |plans for the setting up of a | | |private enterprise. Last year, | | |under a pilot scheme, | | |applications were received for | | |the provision of a pop corn | | |making machine and for a device | | |for gas welding. If a business | | |plan is considered promising the| | |appropriate equipment are given | | |out. If a family decides to | | |engage in private business and | | |its business plan is endorsed, | | |such a family is removed from | | |the list of recipients of | | |humanitarian assistance after | | |three months. The Red Cross has | | |been operating that scheme in | | |different countries, like | | |Bosnia. The Red Cross | | |humanitarian efforts are | | |currently concentrated in North | | |Caucasus and the Society is this| | |year spending 26 million | | |dollars, with the lion share of | | |the money being spent on | | |humanitarian help to that | | |region. | | |([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