The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 283 | | | 26.04.05 | |Statue of assassinated Chechen | | |leader for Grozny |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |A giant statue of slain Chechen |26 April 2005 Restoring Grozny will not be possible without | |president Akhmad Kadyrov will be|restoring historical and cultural monuments | |erected in Grozny's main square,|Grozny was one of the most beautiful cities in Southern Russia| |a Russian arts official said |and we are sure that after its rebuilding it will once more be| |here on Friday. Russian sculptor|such. It will be rebuilt with the taking into account of the | |Zurab Tseretely has been |latest achievements in architecture but such will not be | |commissioned to create the 3.5 |possible without restoring buildings which are of historical | |metres (11 feet) likeness of |and monumental significance, deputy chairman of the Chechen | |Kadyrov that will be placed upon|governments committee on architecture and city construction, | |a 6.5 metres granite pedestal. |Yury Zaurbekov has said. He said that the committee was | |"I shall try and put all Akhmad |working on the rebuilding of the central part of Grozny | |Kadyrov's force of character and|envisaging the keeping of historical and cultural monuments. | |wisdom into this work," |The Chechen government committee is in close contact with the | |Tseretely, an artist popular |Russian culture ministry and the Moscow branch of the Fund for| |with Moscow authorities, told |maintaining architectural monuments, arts and culture and a | |the Gazeta newspaper. The |census of all such objects requiring priority attention is | |foundation stone of the monument|being taken. Some of them are to be included in the Russian | |to Kadyrov is to be placed on |special programme for restoring Chechnya. Historical buildings| |the first anniversary of the May|in Grozny like the house of Nakhimov on the corner of | |9, 2004 bomb attack on the |Polezhayev Street and Krasnyx frontavikov, house of Esambayev,| |Grozny stadium that killed him, |house of Abubakar on the intersection of the Partizansky and | |and the inauguration of the |Lenin Streets and the house of merchant Mutushev on the corner| |statue itself is due August 23, |of Lenin Street will be rebuilt according to their old forms. | |which would have been his |Speaking about the immediate plans of reconstructing Chechnya,| |birthday. In the first Chechen |Mr. Zaurbekov said that a 4 storey building is to be put up on| |conflict of 1994-96 Kadyrov was |prospect Akhmad Kadyrov based on the design of the young | |with the independence movement |architect, S.M Kadiyev in which a flower shop will be located | |but switched allegiance during |on the first floor , offices on the second floor while the 3rd| |the second conflict and was |and 4th floors will be used as hotels The oil institutes | |placed at the head of the |building complex will be restored but the old school site will| |pro-Russian administration |also be taken over by the institutes building, thus the whole | |before becoming president of the|institute will now be in the same place. The school in which | |federal Russian state in October|A. Sheripov studied will have a new building incorporating | |2003. |elements of its old features and will include a memorial | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |plaque honouring the famous Chechen revolutionary Theres a | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |plan to turn Prospect revolution from the building of the | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |drama theater into a pedestrian street and both sides will | | |become zones of culture, relaxation and shopping malls. The | |Chechnya celebrates Chechen |Street will extend to river Sunzha across which a pedestrian | |Language Day for the first time |bridge having a glass roof will be built. Parks where children| | |cars can be rented to enable them have a joy ride across the | |Chechnya celebrates the Chechen |bridge will be created on both sides of the river. The Street | |Language Day for the first time |will cross the Proletarsky one to link up with the public | |in the history of the republic. |garden on Tolstgoi where the Chechen State University is sited| |Chechen President Alu Alkhanov |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |signed a relevant decree. The |Chechnya...) | |celebration marks the | | |publication of the first issue |25 April 2005 Chechen elections will anchor regional | |of the Chechen newspaper Rodina |stability - Putin | |in 1923. On the eve of the |President Vladimir Putin lauded the upcoming parliamentary | |anniversary, the Chechen |elections in Chechnya and said they will lay a foundation for | |President met with editorial |regional stability. "I support the holding of parliamentary | |staff of the newspaper and |elections in Chechnya this year. They should become the core | |assured journalists that he |of stability and democracy in the region," Putin said in his | |would "make all possible efforts|state of the nation address in parliament on Monday. "The | |to increase the importance of |North Caucasus already has good prerequisites for economic | |the Chechen language." "If we do|growth," he said. The region has one of the most developed | |not take practical steps in the |transport infrastructures in Russia and a qualified labor | |development of our native |force, he said. "The number of local residents wanting to go | |language, we will face the |into business exceeds the Russian average," he said. At the | |danger of losing it in 50 |same time, the shadow economy is much bigger in that region, | |years," Alkhanov said. In his |Putin said. The authorities must not only strengthen law | |opinion, it is a serious problem|enforcement and the court system, but also promote businesses,| |because "even the young |Putin said. | |generation of Chechens does not |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |know how to write and read in |Chechnya...) | |their native language." "We are | | |the largest ethnic group in the |25 April 2004 Two guerillas detained in Chechnya | |Northern Caucasus and in order |Two active members of illegal armed groups have been detained | |to educate the new generation in|in Chechnya in the past 24 hours, the press center of the | |the spirit of patriotism, we |headquarters of the antiterrorist operation in the North | |must pass the knowledge of the |Caucasus said on Saturday. Using information provided by a | |mother tongue to children and |member of illegal armed units who voluntarily surrendered | |teach them to love their |earlier, security forces detained a guerilla from Alkhan-Kala | |Motherland - Russia," Alkhanov |in Grozny's Leninsky district. The detainee was a member of | |emphasized. He supported the |guerilla units led by Khamzat Tazabayev (killed in March 2004)| |initiative of Chechen linguists |and Alikhan Mashugov (killed in December 2004), which directly| |to introduce education in |reported to Shamil Basayev, the press center said. Tazabayev's| |Chechen language at primary |and Mashugov's units committed numerous grave crimes against | |schools starting from the |the residents of Grozny, the Grozny rural district, the | |beginning of the next school |Naurskaya and Urus-Martan districts. In particular, Mashugov's| |year. ([http:// |men killed head of the Alkhan-Kala administration Malika | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Umasheva in the summer of 2003. Investigators also found out | |lng=eng] more...) |that the man is responsible for setting off a | | |remote-controlled mine near Alkhan-Kala administration | | Chechen history |building in April 2004. The explosion wounded two Chechen | | |policemen, it said. Operatives also detained a resident of | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Shali, who was a member of a unit led by warlord Alvi Tasuyev,| | |who was killed in March 2005. The guerilla was on a wanted | |To Reader |list for murders, illegal arms trafficking, and membership of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |illegal armed units, the press service said. | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |traditions| music |Chechnya...) | | | | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,| ------------------------------------------------------------ | |a Russian territory which has | | |witnessed the most tragic events| Russia - Chechnya | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the | Chechen culture | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of |Literary Ties | |fresh and accurate information |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |about events in Chechnya | | |generates many distorted |[5330] | |conceptions and rumours - both |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |within and outside Russia . For |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |example, that Chechen society is|Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |allegedly inherently alien to |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |Russia , that pro-Russian |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |elements in the republic are |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |Russian power structures are |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |fighting the Chechen people, |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |rather than armed bandit groups.|Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |The reality, however, is that |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |only with the return of the |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |legitimate authorities are |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |villages and towns being |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |restored, children going to |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |school for the first time in |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |many years, and pensioners |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |receiving long-forgotten |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |referendum on a new Chechen |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |constitution, and parliamentary |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |and presidential elections. |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |These votes will be held, |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |despite continued attempts by |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |bandit groups and their leaders |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |to scupper the process of |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |normalisation in the republic, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |the latest terrorist act being |eng] chechen culture ...) | |the bombing of the republican | | |government building. The war | Chechen tarditions | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |forces and more often than not |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |against their own co-citizens is|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Chechen people", but an episode |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |in the overall offensive by |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |international terrorism on the |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |fundamental principles of modern|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |civilisation. The facts show |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |that being a part of the Russian|their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Federation in no way threatens |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |identity, the free use of its |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |own language, and preaching |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |during de facto "independence" |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |from Russia that the Chechen |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |people suffered a humanitarian |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |tragedy on an unprecedented |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| | |trade and plundering came to | Chechen cuisine | |form the economic basis of the | | |new regime, while chaos and war |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |became the form of its political|traditions| music | |existence. We want to emphasise |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |once more: Chechnya is part of |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Russia , geographically, |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |politically and |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |civilisation-wise. So a |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |hypothetical triumph of radical |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Islamism on its territory would |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |be anti-historical. Such a |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |development would signify the |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |establishment in the midst of |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |with all ensuing consequences |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |for the international community.|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |The corporate author - |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |journalists of the Russian |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |Information Agency Novosti - |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |have attempted to be as brief as|their own. | |possible on providing answers to|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |the most-often aked questions |eng] in detail ...) | |(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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Russian ministries and | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 ...) | | | | | | Chechnya is to celebrate the | | | 60th anniversary of the Great | | | Victory | | | | | |[6116] The 60th anniversary of | | |the Victory in World War Two | | |will be widely and triumphantly | | |celebrated in all parts of | | |Russia. From reading matter | | |posted on this site you will be | | |able to learn about preparations| | |for this glorious jubilee in the| | |Chechen Republic, about its | | |World War Two veterans and about| | |the help and assistance the | | |Republic provides to the | | |veterans. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |victoryeng&row=0] 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