The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 282 | | | 22.04.05 | |Internet public access centers | | |to appear Chechnya-wide |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |The Russian Economic Development|22 April 2005 Two guerillas detained in Chechnya | |and Trade Ministry plans in 2005|Two guerillas, one of them a subordinate to field commander | |to open centers of public access|Timur Abubakarov and the other a member of Rizvan Chitigov's | |to Internet in every district of|guerilla unit, have been detained in Chechnya, a spokesman for| |Chechnya, deputy minister Andrei|the federal forces in the North Caucasus told Interfax on | |Sharonov has said. "Our ministry|Thursday. The guerillas are suspected of murdering and | |has agreed on this project with |attacking servicemen and administrative buildings in Chechnya,| |the government of Chechnya", |he said. A terrorist attack has been prevented in the | |Sharonov told the joint press |Itum-Kale district of Chechnya, where guerillas were | |conference of the economic |supposedly preparing to attack the Argun border detachment. | |development and cultural |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |ministries on the conclusion of |Chechnya...) | |the cooperation and interaction | | |agreement within the framework |22 April 2005 Maskhadov buried as required by law on | |of the federal target program |terrorism - prosecutor | |Electronic Russia. Such centers |Slain separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has been buried as | |will open in the Chechen |required by the law on terrorism, Russia's deputy prosecutor | |populated places, which |general Nikolai Shepel said at a press conference in Nalchik | |presently have no access to |on Friday. "Maskhadov's place of burial will not be | |Internet. Citizens will get free|announced," Shepel said. | |access to the law, educational |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |and cultural resources, Sharonov|Chechnya...) | |specified. They are being set up| | |in public places, such as |22 April 2004 Local helps to seize terrorist | |schools and libraries, Sharonov |A terrorist involved in killing several police officers has | |added. The two ministries plan |been seized in Chechnya, the North Caucasian anti-terror | |interaction in opening and |operation HQ reports in a public statement. The bandit, aged | |digitizing archives to make them|34, would have escaped if not for a local man informing on | |accessible in electronic form. |him, the HQ points out. The arrested man was active, 1997 into| |"Archives should serve the |99, on an anti-terror center capture crew of Aslan Maskhadov's| |public", Sharonov said. "This is|regime. Once President of independent Ichkeria-the name under | |why we will open archives for |which Chechen separatists refer to the republic, Maskhadov was| |all users without doing harm to |killed by federal forces, March 8, 2005. After 1999, the man | |state secrets or security". Last|joined Albek Bugayev's gang under warlord Doku Umarov, to | |year such centers opened in |involve in many heinous crimes against civilians in the Urus | |Kalmykia, Buryatia and |Martan District. He was on a crew that booby-trapped a police | |Daghestan, which before then had|Volga car in 2000 to kill five officers. In 2003, the man shot| |no public access to the world |dead police divisional inspector Ruslan Satobayev in the same | |web. |district's village Roshni Chu. Two homemade hand grenades were| |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |found on the bandit after he was seized. Another bandit, aged | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |26, has been captured, adds the press release. A Dyshne-Vedeno| |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |villager, he had been with the gang of warlord Rizvan | | |Bachagayev who was eliminated in July 2002. The gang was under| |Cache with arms and literature |direct supervision of notorious warlord Hattab, and was making| |of extremist eliminated in |terror acts against Chechen civilians on his orders. Mercenary| |Chechnya |Hattab, of Jordanian extraction, was even higher on the | | |Chechen terrorist hierarchy than Shamil Basayev, also of great| |A cache containing one kilogram |cruelty and notoriety. A go-between to pass money to Chechnya | |of TNT and literature of |from international terrorist donors, Hattab was long hiding in| |extremist content was eliminated|the highlands. It took close on a year to prepare an operation| |in Chechnya. The cache was |to seize or kill him, and he eventually met his violent death,| |discovered as a result of |March 2002. Another man, 30-year-old villager of Khacharoi, | |special operative and searching |Vedeno District, has surrendered. He led one of the gangs | |measures following the |under Shamil Basayev, 2001-02, which was active in his village| |information obtained from |vicinity, and was member of Basayev's own gang, 2003. The | |residents of one of the dwelling|repentant bandit is anxious to help police detect his bandits'| |houses in the Zavodskoy district|crimes, says the HQ release. | |of Grozny, a source in the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |regional headquarters for the |Chechnya...) | |antiterrorist operation in the | | |North Caucasus told RIA Novosti.| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |"According to the current data, | | |the cache belonged to Artur | Russia - Chechnya | |Basnukayev and Dzhambulat | | |Kharikhanov, the active | Chechen culture | |participants of the illegal | | |armed formations eliminated in |Literary Ties | |April 2005," the source noted. |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |According to the source, the | | |cache contained an AKS-74 |[5330] | |assault rifle, six grenades, |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |five rounds for under-barrel |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |grenade launcher as well as |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |approximately 300 cartridges for|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |firing arms. "Moreover, one |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |kilogram of TNT and literature |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |of extremist content in the Arab|Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |language were also discovered in|times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |the cache," the source stressed.|his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |The confiscated arms were sent |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |for the criminal investigative |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |examination, he added. |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |Furthermore, a large arms-cache |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |was eliminated on Friday in the |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |district center of Shali. The |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |cache in one of the houses of |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |the local residents contained |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |three RPG-26 grenade launchers, |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |seven Kalashnikov assault |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |rifles, 39 rounds for grenade |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |launchers, 12 grenades, a MON-50|Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |mine as well as approximately |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |11,000 cartridges of various |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |gauges. "Moreover, it contained |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |approximately 2.5 kilos of TNT, |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |500 grams of plastic explosives,|Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |11 portable radio stations, 10 |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |sets of winter and summer army |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |outfits as well as masks," the |eng] chechen culture ...) | |source noted. The arrested | | |owners of the house are being | Chechen tarditions | |interrogated. ([http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |lng=eng] more...) |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | | |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | | Chechen history | | | |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | | |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |To Reader |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |traditions| music |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | | |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |a Russian territory which has |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |witnessed the most tragic events|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |over the past decade. The book |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |is the latest update on the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |Chechen Republic . And this is |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |very important, since a lack of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |fresh and accurate information |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted | Chechen cuisine | |conceptions and rumours - both | | |within and outside Russia . For |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |example, that Chechen society is|traditions| music | |allegedly inherently alien to |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Russia , that pro-Russian |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |elements in the republic are |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |marginalised; and lastly, that |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Russian power structures are |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |fighting the Chechen people, |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |rather than armed bandit groups.|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |The reality, however, is that |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |only with the return of the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |legitimate authorities are |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |villages and towns being |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |restored, children going to |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |school for the first time in |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |many years, and pensioners |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |receiving long-forgotten |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |their own. | |referendum on a new Chechen |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |constitution, and parliamentary |eng] in detail ...) | |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, | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |the latest terrorist act being | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 | | |([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