The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 284 | | | 29.04.05 | |No one knows about place and | | |time of May 9th festivities in |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Chechnya | | | |29 April 2005 Our aim is creation | |Only a narrow circle of people |The Chechen community of the Krasnoyarsk region, one of the | |will be informed about the |biggest territorial entities of the Russian Federation, | |place, date and time of the |comprises some 2,000 people. Many Chechens reside in the city | |activities in Grozny devoted to |of Krasnoyarsk, yet the majority lives in regional towns and | |the 60th anniversary of the |villages. Though the Chechens are scattered on a rather vast | |Victory in the Great Patriotic |territory the communitys leaders are in close tough with them | |War against German Nazism of |all and help them solve their problems. Chechens residing in | |1941-1945, Vice-Chairman of the |the Krasnoyarsk region are involved in business, medicine, | |Chechen government Belkis |education and sports. There are even Olympic champions among | |Baidayeva said at the |them-freestyle wrestling champions. The communitys leaders are| |government's meeting today. |working in close cooperation with the local administration and| |According to her, this measure |law enforcement agencies, like everywhere in Russia. According| |is linked with considerations of|to one of the leaders Zelimkhan Saipov, the greatest | |security during the celebration |contribution to the Chechen community and other ethnic | |of Victory Day. The place of the|communities in the region is provided by Mark Denisov, the | |main festivities to mark the |head of the regional Committee on religious affairs and ethnic| |Victory has not been officially |groups. Owing to his efforts the Chechen community has | |announced in Chechnya yet. As |premises where local Chechens gather, receive their guests and| |Deputy Prosecutor-General of the|discuss their problems. There is another, more spacious, | |Russian Federation Nikolai |premises where cultural events are held-concerts, writers and | |Shepel said today, the |poets recitals and actors performances. The Chechen community | |proceedings on the case of the |of the Krasnoyarsk region gives priority to humanitarian | |terrorist act on May 9, 2004 in |problems, it continuously takes part in various charity | |the capital of Chechnya, Grozny,|campaigns with a view to raising money for Chechnya. The | |as a result of which Chechen |Chechen community has also been a patron of a local orphanage | |president Akhmad Kadyrov |for the past two years. Local Chechens are frequent guests | |perished, was resumed in |there. They congratulate orphans on holidays, give them | |connection with the appearance |presents, sponsor sport competitions. Recently local Chechen | |of new operational information. |children and the orphans played a football match. In short | |"Implication of the people, who |Chechens try to give the orphans warmth and care they need | |were detained at the initial |badly. As for plans, Zelimkhan Saipov said in an interview | |stage (of the investigation) in |with our correspondent that the main thing is to prove by | |perpetrating this terrorist act |words and deeds that the Chechens want to live in peace and | |has not been confirmed," Shepel |work for the countrys benefit. | |said. On the whole, as he said, |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |it is now difficult to comment |Chechnya...) | |on the course of the | | |investigation "because this |28 April 2005 Us State Department on foreign terrorists in | |crime has not been cleared." |Chechnya | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |The US Department of State notes the presence of international| |index.php?section=newsarceng& |terrorists in Chechnya. They also receive foreign | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |appropriations. This is mentioned in the US State Department's| | |2004 report on the threat of terrorism in other countries that| |So-called Naursky district |was made public here on Wednesday. According to the report, | |"emir" detained in Chechnya |Russia implemented a number of major domestic and | | |international counter-terrorist initiatives last year, thereby| |Law enforcers arrested the |expanding its role in the global war on terrorism. North | |so-called emir of the Naursky |Caucasian separatist terrorists had killed hundreds of Russian| |Distrcit, Roman Tolkhadov. |citizens, the report notes. Numerous US and Russian services | |According to Chechnya's law |expanded their cooperation in 2004, the report stresses. | |enforcement agencies, the |Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and FBI (Federal | |operation was conducted in the |Bureau of Investigation) regularly exchange information, | |Sunzha District. Tolkhadov is a |jointly investigating some cases. The FSB and the Russian | |resident of the Mekenskaya |foreign intelligence service have provided US services with | |village in the Naursky District.|information that helped identify potential financial channels | |The detainee showed an arms |for terrorists, suspicious banking accounts and operations, | |cache in the Assinovskaya |the report reads in part. FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev and | |village of the Sunzhensky |FBI Director Robert Mueller signed an anti-terrorist | |District. There were a Stechkin |memorandum in Moscow last December. According to the US State | |pistol with three spare clips |Department, the FSB and the FBI have agreed to expand their | |and two makeshift hand grenades |cooperation program and mutual exchanges and to include | |in the cache that was in a |information about mass-destruction weapons in this program. | |boiler house of an abandoned |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |building, the officer said. In |Chechnya...) | |addition, a police search | | |operation in a forest near |28 April 2004 Kadyrov assassination on May 9, 2004 unsolved | |Shaami-Yurt in the |Shepel | |Achkhoy-Martan District resulted|The attack at the Dynamo stadium in Grozny on May 9, 2004, in | |in eliminating a cache of arms |which Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was killed among | |and explosives. Voluntary |others, has not yet been solved, Russian Deputy Prosecutor | |surrender of weapons has been on|General Nikolai Shepel said. "We believe a crime can be | |the rise in Chechnya lately. |regarded as solved after we detain a person and indict him for| |Those who surrender guns and |committing a particular crime," Shepel told journalists in | |ammunition shall be paid for |Rostov-on-Don. | |them under a resolution of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Chechen government dated April |Chechnya...) | |6, 2004. According to the | | |Chechen Interior Ministry, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |126,000 rubles have been paid | | |for weapons surrendered since | Russia - Chechnya | |the beginning of the year. Over | | |40 cases of arms surrender to | Chechen culture | |law enforcers have been | | |registered. ([http:// |Literary Ties | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |lng=eng] more...) | | | |[5330] | | Chechen history |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | | |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | | |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |To Reader |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |All about Chechnya, chechens. |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |traditions| music |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| | |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |a Russian territory which has |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |witnessed the most tragic events|building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |over the past decade. The book |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |is the latest update on the |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |Chechen Republic . And this is |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |very important, since a lack of |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |fresh and accurate information |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |about events in Chechnya |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |generates many distorted |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |conceptions and rumours - both |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |within and outside Russia . For |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |example, that Chechen society is|will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |allegedly inherently alien to |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |Russia , that pro-Russian |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |elements in the republic are |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |Russian power structures are |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |fighting the Chechen people, |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |rather than armed bandit groups.|eng] chechen culture ...) | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the | Chechen tarditions | |legitimate authorities are | | |villages and towns being |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |restored, children going to |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |school for the first time in |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |many years, and pensioners | | |receiving long-forgotten |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |referendum on a new Chechen |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |constitution, and parliamentary |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |and presidential elections. |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |These votes will be held, |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |despite continued attempts by |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |bandit groups and their leaders |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |to scupper the process of |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |normalisation in the republic, |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |the latest terrorist act being |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |the bombing of the republican |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |government building. The war |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |being waged by Chechen |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |separatists against federal |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is| Chechen cuisine | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |Chechen people", but an episode |traditions| music | |in the overall offensive by |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |international terrorism on the |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |fundamental principles of modern|usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |civilisation. The facts show |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |that being a part of the Russian|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |Federation in no way threatens |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |identity, the free use of its |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |own language, and preaching |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |during de facto "independence" |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |from Russia that the Chechen |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |people suffered a humanitarian |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |tragedy on an unprecedented |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |trade and plundering came to |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |form the economic basis of the |their own. | |new regime, while chaos and war |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |became the form of its political|eng] in detail ...) | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of | - | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and |## | |civilisation-wise. So a | | |hypothetical triumph of radical | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Islamism on its territory would | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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 ...) | | | | | | 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