The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 281 | | | 19.04.05 | |Policemen's murder suspect | | |detained in Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A militant suspected of |19 April 2005 Culture Days of the Chechen Republic to Be Held| |involvement in the murder of |in Moscow | |several policemen has been |From June 2 to 4, 2005, the Russian capital will become the | |detained in Chechnya, spokesman |venue of culture days of the Chechen Republic. The date was | |for the federal forces in the |confirmed with the Republics Culture Ministry and the cultural| |North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya |committee of the Moscow City Government. According to Adnana | |Shabalkin told Interfax on |Majidova acting deputing culture minister of Chechnya, the | |Sunday. He said information |decision on holding this event in Moscow was adopted last year| |about the suspect's whereabouts |and it was planned to take place in October 2004. But because | |was provided by residents in |of the tragic events in Beslan, the dates were put off. | |Grozny's Zavodskoi district. |Officials of the Chechen Culture Ministry recently presented | |Home-made hand grenades were |their Moscow colleagues with a plan of the Chechen Culture | |seized during the militant's |Days, in which Chechen President Alu Alkhanov and a Chechen | |detention. The detainee was a |official delegation will take part. The event will take place | |member of the assault group of |most likely on June 2 in the Kremlin Palace with a gala | |slain Chechen separatist |concert. Apart from the leading ensembles and performers of | |leader's so-called "anti-terror |the Chechen Republic, stars of the Russia showbiz are also | |center," Shabalkin said. Then he|expected to take part, who previously worked in the | |joined the Albek Bugayev |philharmony in the Chechen-Ingush Republic, among them Iosif | |criminal group under warlord |Kobzon, Yuri Antonov, Alexander Barykin. Moscovites and city | |Doku Umatov's command, he added.|guests will be treated to the performance of the Vainakh state| |He said the militant is |choreographic ensemble under the direction of Dikalu Muzykayev| |suspected of blowing up the |Peoples Artiste of Russia and the performance of Peoples | |Urus-Martan district police |Artiste Valid Dagayev and other renowned performers. The | |headquarters' car in 2002, which|Chechen state drama theater named after Nuradilov will show a | |caused the death of five |play, Chechen painters will put up a display of their works, | |policemen, and killing a |representatives of scientific and creative communities of | |policeman in the village of |Moscow and Chechnya will hold a gathering, a folklore event | |Roshni-Chu in 2003. |and a get-together of compatriots will take place. All the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |events involving the Chechen Culture Days in Moscow will be | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |financed by the Moscow city government. | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | |Chechnya...) | |Cache with arms and extremist | | |literature eliminated in |18 April 2005 Chechen militant of Khalilov gang gives himself| |Chechnya |up | | |A militant, a 42-year-old resident of the Gudermes region, has| |A cache containing one kilogram |voluntarily given himself up to Chechnyas law enforcement | |of TNT and literature of |bodies. As the militant confessed, he was a member of the gang| |extremist content was eliminated|under the command of Rappani Khalilov. As Itar-Tass learnt at | |in Chechnya. The cache was |the Regional Operational Headquarters for directing the | |discovered as a result of |counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, the gunman | |special operative and searching |gave the names of participants in the Khaliov gang known to | |measures following the |him and indicated the place where they hide weapons and | |information obtained from |ammunition. Upon the check of his information, a cache with | |residents of one of the dwelling|two anti-tank mortars, two projectiles, a mine MON-50 and over| |houses in the Zavodskoy district|200 cartridges of 72 mm calibre was found in the outskirts of | |of Grozny, a source in the |the village of Novogroznenskoye of the Gudermes region. At | |regional headquarters for the |present other members of the Khalilov gang are being searched | |antiterrorist operation in the |for. | |North Caucasus told RIA Novosti.|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |"According to the current data, |Chechnya...) | |the cache belonged to Artur | | |Basnukayev and Dzhambulat |18 April 2004 Basayev keeping a low profile - Rogozhkin | |Kharikhanov, the active |Nikolai Rogozhkin, Commander-in-Chief of the Interior Troops | |participants of the illegal |of the Russian Interior Ministry, believes Shamil Basayev, a | |armed formations eliminated in |Chechen terrorist leader, is "keeping a low profile." This | |April 2005," the source noted. |explains why his voice has not been heard on the air for a | |According to the source, the |long time. Assessing the militants' communication equipment, | |cache contained an AKS-74 |Rogozhkin admitted that Basayev was as good as that used by | |assault rifle, six grenades, |the federal forces. "Basayev makes use of similar cellular | |five rounds for under-barrel |phones with a kind of 'closed' equipment. This is why they can| |grenade launcher as well as |communicate among themselves," Rogozhkin said. He also said | |approximately 300 cartridges for|the strength of the Chechen militants is "enough to cause | |firing arms. "Moreover, one |periodic destabilization of the republic." Rogozhkin said he | |kilogram of TNT and literature |had no information on the precise number of militants. "To | |of extremist content in the Arab|earn their pay terrorists act cynically, and I cannot dare say| |language were also discovered in|that peace will come tomorrow," he added. | |the cache," the source stressed.|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |The confiscated arms were sent |Chechnya...) | |for the criminal investigative | | |examination, he added. | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Furthermore, a large arms-cache | | |was eliminated on Friday in the | Russia - Chechnya | |district center of Shali. The | | |cache in one of the houses of | Chechen culture | |the local residents contained | | |three RPG-26 grenade launchers, |Literary Ties | |seven Kalashnikov assault |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |rifles, 39 rounds for grenade | | |launchers, 12 grenades, a MON-50|[5330] | |mine as well as approximately |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |11,000 cartridges of various |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |gauges. "Moreover, it contained |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |approximately 2.5 kilos of TNT, |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |500 grams of plastic explosives,|retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |11 portable radio stations, 10 |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |sets of winter and summer army |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |outfits as well as masks," the |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |source noted. The arrested |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |owners of the house are being |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |interrogated. ([http:// |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |lng=eng] more...) |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | | |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | | Chechen history |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | | |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | | |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |To Reader |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |traditions| music |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | | |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |a Russian territory which has |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |witnessed the most tragic events|Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |over the past decade. The book |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |is the latest update on the |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |Chechen Republic . And this is |eng] chechen culture ...) | |very important, since a lack of | | |fresh and accurate information | Chechen tarditions | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |conceptions and rumours - both |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |within and outside Russia . For |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Russia , that pro-Russian |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |elements in the republic are |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |marginalised; and lastly, that |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |Russian power structures are |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |fighting the Chechen people, |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |rather than armed bandit groups.|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |The reality, however, is that |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |only with the return of the |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |legitimate authorities are |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |villages and towns being |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |restored, children going to |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |school for the first time in |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |many years, and pensioners |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |receiving long-forgotten |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |is underway. Lying ahead are a | | |referendum on a new Chechen | Chechen cuisine | |constitution, and parliamentary | | |and presidential elections. |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |These votes will be held, |traditions| music | |despite continued attempts by |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |bandit groups and their leaders |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |to scupper the process of |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |normalisation in the republic, |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |the latest terrorist act being |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |the bombing of the republican |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |government building. The war |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |being waged by Chechen |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |separatists against federal |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |forces and more often than not |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |against their own co-citizens is|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |by no means a "national |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |liberation struggle of the |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |Chechen people", but an episode |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |in the overall offensive by |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |international terrorism on the |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |fundamental principles of modern|their own. | |civilisation. The facts show |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |that being a part of the Russian|eng] in detail ...) | |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" | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |from Russia that the Chechen | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |The Kurchaloi Region Is to | | |Cultivate Flax | | | | | |[6272] Flax cultivation for | | |Chechen farmers is a novelty. | | |Never before it was practiced on| | |Chechen soil. But now they | | |decided to try it. Seeds and | | |farming capacities are available| | |but only the autumn will show | | |whether this novelty is | | |successful. If so, flax | | |cultivation will be practiced on| | |a permanent basis. This crop is | | |quite profitable, according to | | |Mansur Varayev chief of the | | |regional agricultural department| | |because demand for flax is quite| | |high, particularly in the | | |textile industry. There are also| | |ideas in the region to restore | | |cattle-breeding. Agriculture | | |without it is nothing. But after| | |the hostilities in the republic,| | |there is only one remaining and | | |unrepaired facility of a cattle | | |farm. The local leadership | | |discussed the situation with the| | |republican agriculture minister | | |and he gave assurances that next| | |year the decision to restore | | |Kurchaloi cattle-breeding will | | |be adopted. But right now its | | |harvest time on the fields in | | |the region. Thousands of | | |hectares of tillage fields for | | |spring crops have been prepared.| | |Fuel , lubricants, as well as | | |seeding machines are in | | |sufficient supply. The situation| | |is much worse with heavy | | |machinery, which according to | | |Mansur Varayev, is in a sorry | | |state. The heavy machinery park | | |has never been renewed for three| | |years. This year some of it will| | |be supplied but deliveries are | | |behind schedule. The ageing | | |machinery needs spare parts, | | |which come at a heavy price on | | |the black market. But Mansur | | |Varayev believes that despite | | |all difficulties, the seeding | | |will go on without a hitch. The | | |important thing is that there | | |are people willing to work. | | |([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