The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 280 | | | 15.04.05 | |Militants unable to destabilize | | |Chechnya - Kadyrov |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Illegal armed units cannot |15 April 2005 In Nazran a UN Seminar Was Held on the | |change the Chechen situation, |Protection of the Populations' Rights | |First Deputy Prime Minister |The United Nations continues its humanitarian activity in the | |Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax. |North Caucasus. This prestigious international organization | |"If this summer is hot, we will |tries to help Russian federal structures to satisfy essential | |go on vacation to Sochi. There |requirements of the local population that suffered during the | |is nothing that can influence |military conflict and to resolve the problem of its legal | |the situation in Chechnya," he |protection. Earl} in March a seminar was held in Nazran to | |said. "The Chechen president's |discuss plans for the activity in human rights protection in | |security service and law |the North Caucasus. The seminar was sponsored by employees of | |enforcement departments have |the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refuges. The | |nearly caught Basayev. We have |concept o] protecting the population has been worked out and | |his personal weapon and the |tabled by the UN Secretary, General. The need of conducting a | |German-made prosthetic appliance|seminar was voiced at the round table held in February 2003. | |he left behind in his escape. We|Participating in the round table were various UN organizations| |have given his prosthetic |international and national non-government organizations, the | |appliance to a handicapped man,"|International Red Cross, donor-countries, federal government | |Kadyrov said. |structures and the local authorities. One of the subjects | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |under discussion at the seminar was direct contacts o: | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |humanitarian organizations working in the North Caucasus with | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |the recipients o: aid. Security considerations do not allow | | |many organizations to open their offices there. During the | |More Maskhadovs and Basayevs |seminar plenary sessions were held at which all participants | |bandits captured in Chechnya |in the seminar, over 60 persons, discussed things together. In| | |general, discussion: were held of the following subjects: | |Chechen policemen have captured |requirements of displaced persons, the population and | |five active members of unlawful |receiving communities, needs of children and women in the | |armed gangs in the course of the|domain of human rights, justice and supremacy of the law, | |past twenty-four hours. Two of |access of humanitarian organizations to recipients of aid and | |them were members of the gangs, |security of those organizations' personal. The seminar worked | |which were subordinated to |out recommendations on how the United Nations humanitarian | |Maskhadov and Basayev. Itar-Tass|community as a whole and non-government organizations should | |was told at the Regional |ac to supplement the efforts of the government to protect the | |Operations Headquarters, |population. No doubt the main responsibility of protecting the| |directing the counter-terrorism |population rests with the country' government and all | |operation in the Northern |government agencies. | |Caucasus, that the whereabouts |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |of the bandits was learned from |Chechnya...) | |local the population. For | | |instance, 21-year-old local |14 April 2005 Guerilla base eliminated in Chechnya - | |resident was arrested in the |Shabalkin | |village of Yandy of the |A guerilla base has been eliminated in the mountains near the | |Achkhoi-Martan District of |village of Serzhen-Yurt in Chechnya's Shali district, | |Chechnya. A submachine-gun with |spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus Maj. | |150 cartridges was found during |General Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax. Information about the | |the search of his house there. |base was provided by a former member of Magomed Baisultanov's | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |guerilla group, who had surrendered to the authorities, | |index.php?lng=eng] more...) |Shabalkin said. The base was comprised of two dugouts and a | | |plastic barrel dug into the ground that was used to store | | Chechen history |ammunition. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Chechnya...) | | | | |To Reader |14 April 2004 Two guerillas killed in Grozny | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Two guerillas were killed in a clash with police on the site | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||of a ruined canning factory in Grozny's Leninsky district on | |traditions| music |Wednesday evening, Chechen law enforcement sources told | | |Interfax on Thursday. "Policemen came under fire during a | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|search operation. They retaliated, killing two militants. The | |a Russian territory which has |killed militants' bodies are being identified," a source said.| |witnessed the most tragic events|A pistol, eight blasting cartridges and an electric detonator | |over the past decade. The book |were discovered at the scene, he said. | |is the latest update on the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Chechen Republic . And this is |Chechnya...) | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | Russia - Chechnya | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For | Chechen culture | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |Literary Ties | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |elements in the republic are | | |marginalised; and lastly, that |[5330] | |Russian power structures are |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |fighting the Chechen people, |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |The reality, however, is that |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |only with the return of the |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |legitimate authorities are |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |villages and towns being |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |restored, children going to |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |school for the first time in |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |many years, and pensioners |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |receiving long-forgotten |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |is underway. Lying ahead are a |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |referendum on a new Chechen |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |constitution, and parliamentary |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |and presidential elections. |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |These votes will be held, |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |despite continued attempts by |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |bandit groups and their leaders |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |to scupper the process of |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |normalisation in the republic, |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |the latest terrorist act being |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |the bombing of the republican |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |government building. The war |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |being waged by Chechen |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |separatists against federal |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |forces and more often than not |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |against their own co-citizens is|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |by no means a "national |eng] chechen culture ...) | |liberation struggle of the | | |Chechen people", but an episode | Chechen tarditions | |in the overall offensive by | | |international terrorism on the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |fundamental principles of modern|Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |civilisation. The facts show |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |that being a part of the Russian| | |Federation in no way threatens |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |identity, the free use of its |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |own language, and preaching |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |during de facto "independence" |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |from Russia that the Chechen |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |people suffered a humanitarian |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |tragedy on an unprecedented |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |trade and plundering came to |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |form the economic basis of the |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |new regime, while chaos and war |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |became the form of its political|to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |existence. We want to emphasise |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |once more: Chechnya is part of |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | Chechen cuisine | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Islamism on its territory would |traditions| music | |be anti-historical. Such a |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |development would signify the |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |establishment in the midst of |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |with all ensuing consequences |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |for the international community.|charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |The corporate author - |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |journalists of the Russian |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Information Agency Novosti - |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |have attempted to be as brief as|vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |possible on providing answers to|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |the most-often aked questions |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |(above all posed by a foreign |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |audience) about the Chechen |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Chechnya : Questions and |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Answers". It draws heavily on |their own. | |information provided by various |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Russian ministries and |eng] in detail ...) | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | - | |normalising life in the | | |republic. |## | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | CHECHNYA FREE.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