The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 286 | | | 05.05.05 | |Four militants surrender in | | |Chechnya |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |Four militants voluntarily |05 May 2005 A Project to Restore Chechen Museums Underway | |turned themselves in on Sunday |A representative delegation of the Russian UNESCO commission | |in Chechnya, spokesman for the |and of the Russian International committee of Museum Councils | |regional headquarters of the |visited Chechnya recently. Members of the delegation made a | |anti-terrorist operation in the |fact-finding tour of Chechen National Museum and its | |North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya |affiliates. According to Vitaly Remizov chief of the Russian | |Shabalkin told Interfax on |International Committee of Museum Councils, he was in profound| |Monday. He said that a militant |shock over what they saw. Therefore he suggested taking | |from the group of Isa Muskiyev |immediate steps to restore the once largest in the Northern | |operating in Shali and Kurchaloi|Caucasus museum in Grozny and its affiliates. Above all, he | |districts turned himself in to |believes it is necessary to use the UNESCO money, which | |the police in Koshkeldy. He also|amounts to 25,000 to create what he called informational space| |surrendered his Kalashnikov |for all Chechen museums. As it turned out the republican | |assault rifle. Two militants |museums have no channels of communication and no technical | |surrendered in Grozny. Shabalkin|equipment. It is impossible in the modern world to work under | |said that they expressed |such conditions. At a recent conference of museum officials in| |readiness to cooperate with |Russia, it was decided to provide all Chechen museum employees| |investigators and reported facts|upgrade sessions in all of Russias best museums and to assume | |about the crimes committed by |all the costs on themselves. On May, 16, the Leo Tolstoi state| |their group. The degree of their|museum in Moscow will become the venue for a press-conference | |responsibility is being |of Chechen museum employees in order to draw public attention | |established. A resident of Novy |to the issue. They will be also provided with specialized | |Sharoi turned himself in to the |equipment. Vitaly Remizov believes that it is also necessary | |local police Sunday night. A |to stage an action under the aegis Russian Museums to Chechen | |police source told Interfax that|Museums. The gist of the action is to remit to Chechen | |the man said he had belonged to |colleagues earning from the same of tickets for one day by | |a militant group operating his |each Russian museum. According to Mr. Remizov, this action has| |village since spring 2004 and |found support among museums in many countries. Up to the last | |subordinate to Rezvan Magomadov.|moment Chechen museums received support only from the Moscow | |He surrendered a portable |Tretyakov Gallery. Two years ago it called for money donations| |anti-tank grenade-launcher, a |for the restoration of the Chechen National Museum and held | |sniper rifle, a flame-thrower, a|expositions on its premises of Chechen national artists and | |land mine, explosives and |its young painters. At the present moment a project of a | |ammunition. Also two caches of |museum complex in Grozny is being developed with sponsorship | |arms and ammunition were |of Russias leading arts gallery. But as Vitaly Remizov | |uncovered in Chechnya. Both |believes, state cultural institutions are incapable of | |places were reported to the |providing proper financial support. He called on members of | |authorities by local residents |the Chechen diaspora, some of whom are very wealthy people, to| |who had discovered them. |take up the mission of restoring the cultural heritage of | |Shabalkin said the question of |their native people, to set up a board of regents on the | |paying rewards in keeping with a|restoration of museums in the Chechen Republic. | |Chechen Cabinet resolution is |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |being settled. |Chechnya...) | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |04 May 2005 Member of Abu-Dzeit's terrorist group detained in| |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |Chechnya | | |A member of the recently killed Arab mercenary AbuDzeit's | |Guerilla detained on |terrorist group has been detained in Chechnya. The 27-year-old| |Chechen-Ingush border |resident of Nazran, the largest city in Ingushetia (a republic| | |neighboring on Chechnya on the west) was detained at the | |A member of an illegal armed |Kavkaz federal check point, the regional headquarters for the | |group, formerly led by Arab |North Caucasus anti-terror operation reports. "Preliminary | |mercenary Abu Dzeit, has been |investigation revealed that the detainee was a member of the | |detained at the Kavkaz federal |terrorist group under the command of Arab mercenary Abu-Dzeit,| |checkpoint on the Chechen-Ingush|who was killed in February," the report says. Abu-Dzet's group| |border, spokesman for the |perpetrated a number of terror acts against the population of | |federal forces in the North |Ingushetia and Chechnya. For instance, "the group took part in| |Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya |the assault on Ingushetia in June 2004, killing over 100 | |Shabalkin told Interfax on |locals, law enforcement and federal forces officers", the HQ | |Sunday. Shabalkin said Abu Dzeit|said. Currently, investigators are verifying whether the | |was killed in a federal sweep |detainee was involved in that event and other serious crimes | |operation in February, 2005. The|against the population of North Caucasian republics of the | |criminal group lead by Abu Dzeit|Russian Federation. | |has carried out a series of |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |large-scale terrorist attacks |Chechnya...) | |against civilians in Ingushetia | | |and Chechnya, and was involved |03 May 2004 Nine militants detained in Chechnya in two days | |in an attack against Ingushetia |Nine militants have been detained in Chechnya in during the | |in June, 2004 which left more |past two days, spokesman for the regional headquarters of the | |than 100 civilians, policemen |anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya | |and federal servicemen dead. |Shabalkin told Interfax on Monday. Shabalkin said the | |Investigators are working to |detentions were the result of a number of energetic efforts | |establish whether the detained |meant to guarantee public security and neutralize militants. | |guerilla was involved in the |He said public support facilitated the success of the pinpoint| |attack or any other serious |actions. Three of the militants were seized in Grozny. Two of | |crimes committed in Chechnya and|them are suspected of organizing and perpetrating terrorist | |Ingushetia. ([http:// |acts against the authorities and federal troops in the Vedeno | |www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php? |and Shali districts. The third, a resident of Urus-Martan | |lng=eng] more...) |district, was part of a militant group in the Urus-Martan and | | |Achkhoi-Martan districts. Shabalkin said one more militant was| | Chechen history |captured near Grozny. A resident of Starye Atagi and a member | | |of Isa Sadayev's armed group, he is suspected of several | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|crimes, including armed attacks on civilians. Five more | | |militants were captured in operations in Petropavlovskaya, | |To Reader |Novoterskoye, Gudermes and Urus-Martan. Detectives say they | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |are suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks, and | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||shooting at servicemen, Shabalkin said. He said the situation | |traditions| music |in Chechnya during the weekend was generally calm due to the | | |the precautions taken by the authorities to guarantee public | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|order and security. | |a Russian territory which has |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |witnessed the most tragic events|Chechnya...) | |over the past decade. The book | | |is the latest update on the | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |Chechen Republic . And this is | | |very important, since a lack of | Russia - Chechnya | |fresh and accurate information | | |about events in Chechnya | Chechen culture | |generates many distorted | | |conceptions and rumours - both |Literary Ties | |within and outside Russia . For |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |example, that Chechen society is| | |allegedly inherently alien to |[5330] | |Russia , that pro-Russian |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |elements in the republic are |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |marginalised; and lastly, that |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |Russian power structures are |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |fighting the Chechen people, |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |rather than armed bandit groups.|was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |The reality, however, is that |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |only with the return of the |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |legitimate authorities are |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |villages and towns being |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |restored, children going to |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |school for the first time in |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |many years, and pensioners |begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |receiving long-forgotten |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |referendum on a new Chechen |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |constitution, and parliamentary |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |and presidential elections. |been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |These votes will be held, |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |despite continued attempts by |Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |bandit groups and their leaders |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |to scupper the process of |employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |normalisation in the republic, |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |the latest terrorist act being |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |the bombing of the republican |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |government building. The war |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |being waged by Chechen |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |separatists against federal |eng] chechen culture ...) | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is| Chechen tarditions | |by no means a "national | | |liberation struggle of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |Chechen people", but an episode |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |in the overall offensive by |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |international terrorism on the | | |fundamental principles of modern|The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |civilisation. The facts show |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |that being a part of the Russian|normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |Federation in no way threatens |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |identity, the free use of its |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |own language, and preaching |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |during de facto "independence" |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |from Russia that the Chechen |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |people suffered a humanitarian |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |tragedy on an unprecedented |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |trade and plundering came to |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |form the economic basis of the |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |new regime, while chaos and war |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |became the form of its political| | |existence. We want to emphasise | Chechen cuisine | |once more: Chechnya is part of | | |Russia , geographically, |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |politically and |traditions| music | |civilisation-wise. So a |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |hypothetical triumph of radical |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |Islamism on its territory would |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |be anti-historical. Such a |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |development would signify the |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |establishment in the midst of |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |with all ensuing consequences |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |for the international community.|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |The corporate author - |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |journalists of the Russian |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Information Agency Novosti - |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |have attempted to be as brief as|been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |possible on providing answers to|bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |the most-often aked questions |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |(above all posed by a foreign |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |audience) about the Chechen |their own. | |issue. Hence the book's title: "|([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |Chechnya : Questions and |eng] in detail ...) | |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 | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |republic. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |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