The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 285 | | | 03.05.05 | |Policeman killed in Ingushetia | | | |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |Lieut, Timur Belkharoyev, police| | |chief of Nesterovsky village in |03 May 2005 Nine militants detained in Chechnya in two days | |the North Caucasus republic of |Nine militants have been detained in Chechnya in during the | |Ingushetia, has been found dead |past two days, spokesman for the regional headquarters of the | |in a car abandoned on the Kavkaz|anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya | |highway half a kilometer from |Shabalkin told Interfax on Monday. Shabalkin said the | |the village. The police |detentions were the result of a number of energetic efforts | |officer's body was discovered at|meant to guarantee public security and neutralize militants. | |around 9:15 p.m. Moscow time. A |He said public support facilitated the success of the pinpoint| |preliminary report suggests that|actions. Three of the militants were seized in Grozny. Two of | |the policeman sustained multiple|them are suspected of organizing and perpetrating terrorist | |wounds. Investigators are |acts against the authorities and federal troops in the Vedeno | |working at the scene. |and Shali districts. The third, a resident of Urus-Martan | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |district, was part of a militant group in the Urus-Martan and | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |Achkhoi-Martan districts. Shabalkin said one more militant was| |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |captured near Grozny. A resident of Starye Atagi and a member | | |of Isa Sadayev's armed group, he is suspected of several | |Chechen President demands |crimes, including armed attacks on civilians. Five more | |crack-down on kidnappers |militants were captured in operations in Petropavlovskaya, | | |Novoterskoye, Gudermes and Urus-Martan. Detectives say they | |Chechen President Alu Alkanov |are suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks, and | |has demanded tougher measures be|shooting at servicemen, Shabalkin said. He said the situation | |taken by corresponding agencies |in Chechnya during the weekend was generally calm due to the | |to prevent kidnapping and |the precautions taken by the authorities to guarantee public | |people's illicit detention. He |order and security. | |spent more than four hours |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |conferring last Thursday with |Chechnya...) | |the Chechen army and security | | |elite, federal officials and |03 May 2005 Four militants surrender in Chechnya | |human rights militants. Alkhanov|Four militants voluntarily turned themselves in on Sunday in | |reported that he had set |Chechnya, spokesman for the regional headquarters of the | |definite tasks to relevant |anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya | |agencies, in particular, to the |Shabalkin told Interfax on Monday. He said that a militant | |prosecutor-general's office and |from the group of Isa Muskiyev operating in Shali and | |expected definite results in |Kurchaloi districts turned himself in to the police in | |half a year. "We have left |Koshkeldy. He also surrendered his Kalashnikov assault rifle. | |behind the phase of armed |Two militants surrendered in Grozny. Shabalkin said that they | |hostilities -people cannot |expressed readiness to cooperate with investigators and | |tolerate injustice any more and |reported facts about the crimes committed by their group. The | |want to know who is responsible |degree of their responsibility is being established. A | |for kidnappings," said the |resident of Novy Sharoi turned himself in to the local police | |Chechen president. Alu Akhanov |Sunday night. A police source told Interfax that the man said | |believes that the poor detection|he had belonged to a militant group operating his village | |of crimes connected with |since spring 2004 and subordinate to Rezvan Magomadov. He | |kidnapping is partially caused |surrendered a portable anti-tank grenade-launcher, a sniper | |by the absence of fitting |rifle, a flame-thrower, a land mine, explosives and | |contacts between the republican |ammunition. Also two caches of arms and ammunition were | |and federal authorities. As 1547|uncovered in Chechnya. Both places were reported to the | |people were kidnapped in the |authorities by local residents who had discovered them. | |republic from 2000 to 2005, |Shabalkin said the question of paying rewards in keeping with | |criminal proceedings were |a Chechen Cabinet resolution is being settled. | |instituted over 1,834 cases, of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |which 56 have been taken to |Chechnya...) | |court. ([http:// | | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |03 May 2004 Guerilla detained on Chechen-Ingush border | |lng=eng] more...) |A member of an illegal armed group, formerly led by Arab | | |mercenary Abu Dzeit, has been detained at the Kavkaz federal | | Chechen history |checkpoint on the Chechen-Ingush border, spokesman for the | | |federal forces in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|told Interfax on Sunday. Shabalkin said Abu Dzeit was killed | | |in a federal sweep operation in February, 2005. The criminal | |To Reader |group lead by Abu Dzeit has carried out a series of | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |large-scale terrorist attacks against civilians in Ingushetia | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||and Chechnya, and was involved in an attack against Ingushetia| |traditions| music |in June, 2004 which left more than 100 civilians, policemen | | |and federal servicemen dead. Investigators are working to | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|establish whether the detained guerilla was involved in the | |a Russian territory which has |attack or any other serious crimes committed in Chechnya and | |witnessed the most tragic events|Ingushetia. | |over the past decade. The book |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |is the latest update on the |Chechnya...) | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya | Russia - Chechnya | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both | Chechen culture | |within and outside Russia . For | | |example, that Chechen society is|Literary Ties | |allegedly inherently alien to |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |Russia , that pro-Russian | | |elements in the republic are |[5330] | |marginalised; and lastly, that |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |Russian power structures are |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |fighting the Chechen people, |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |rather than armed bandit groups.|nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |The reality, however, is that |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |only with the return of the |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |legitimate authorities are |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |villages and towns being |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |restored, children going to |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |school for the first time in |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |many years, and pensioners |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |receiving long-forgotten |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |referendum on a new Chechen |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |constitution, and parliamentary |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |and presidential elections. |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |These votes will be held, |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |despite continued attempts by |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |bandit groups and their leaders |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |to scupper the process of |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |normalisation in the republic, |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |the latest terrorist act being |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |the bombing of the republican |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |government building. The war |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |being waged by Chechen |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |separatists against federal |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |forces and more often than not |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |against their own co-citizens is|eng] chechen culture ...) | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the | Chechen tarditions | |Chechen people", but an episode | | |in the overall offensive by |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |international terrorism on the |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |fundamental principles of modern|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |civilisation. The facts show | | |that being a part of the Russian|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Federation in no way threatens |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |identity, the free use of its |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |own language, and preaching |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |during de facto "independence" |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |from Russia that the Chechen |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |people suffered a humanitarian |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |tragedy on an unprecedented |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |trade and plundering came to |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |form the economic basis of the |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |new regime, while chaos and war |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |became the form of its political|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |existence. We want to emphasise |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, | Chechen cuisine | |politically and | | |civilisation-wise. So a |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |hypothetical triumph of radical |traditions| music | |Islamism on its territory would |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |be anti-historical. Such a |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |development would signify the |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |establishment in the midst of |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |with all ensuing consequences |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |for the international community.|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |The corporate author - |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |journalists of the Russian |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Information Agency Novosti - |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |have attempted to be as brief as|found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |possible on providing answers to|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |the most-often aked questions |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |(above all posed by a foreign |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |audience) about the Chechen |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |Chechnya : Questions and |their own. | |Answers". It draws heavily on |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |information provided by various |eng] in detail ...) | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or | - | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the |## | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |Novosti | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |([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