The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 287 | | | 12.05.05 | |People planning to blow up | | |Chechen govt building caught |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | | | | |People suspected of planning a |12 May 2005 Youth parliament opens in Chechnya | |terrorist attack against the top|An important event has occurred in the life of Chechen youth: | |Chechen leadership have been |Toward the end of April the first session of the youth | |detained, spokesman for the |parliament was opened in government house in Grozny and was | |federal forces in the North |attended by the Chechen prime minister Sergei Abramov. A | |Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya |parliamentary speaker has been elected in the person of | |Shabalkin told Interfax on |Hozh-Akhmed Haladov, deputy chief of the government committee | |Saturday. Federal Security |on youth affairs who is also the head of the committee for the| |Service (FSB) officers acting |creation of a youth parliament. Representatives of all the | |together with the Chechen |faculties of the 3 state higher educational institutions, | |Interior Ministry detained |special secondary and trade secondary schools are in the youth| |Ruslan Arsanukayev and his |parliament. Also represented are youth social organizations | |accomplices. Arsanukayev has |and active young people in the regions and towns. In all the | |confessed to preparing terrorist|youth parliament has 60 members. The house has commissions for| |attacks on the government |the order of business, schedule of work, social and economic | |complex and identified his |issues, employment and legal defense of youth, healthy life | |accomplices, Shabalkin said. The|style, sport, healthcare, culture and education Leaders of the| |suspect also reported certain |various commissions should submit their plan of work to the | |information about himself that |next session of parliament after the May holidays. The | |could be of interest to law |commissions will be accommodated in the premises of the | |enforcement agencies, including |committee on youth affairs and prime minister Abramov has | |foreign ones, he said. |promised that a joint meeting of the youth parliament, the | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |head of government and officials of state structures will be | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |held once a month to discuss youth problems. At the first | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |session the issues of the creation by the youth of a park of | | |culture and rest as well as the construction in the black sea | |Militant leaders' car discovered|of a rest camp for Chechen students were considered. | |in Grozny |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| | |Chechnya...) | |An abandoned car that is | | |believed to have been used by |11 May 2005 Over 200 houses flooded in Grozny area | |guerrilla leaders Abu Mujahid |Over 200 houses are flooded in the Voikov residential area in | |and Alash Daudov has been found |Grozny as the Sunzha River has burst the banks. Last nights | |in the suburbs of Grozny, the |downpour in the Chechen highlands overfilled the rivers. There| |capital of Russia's North |is a flood hazard in the Vedeno, Sunzha, Gudermes, Grozny, | |Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a|Urus-Martan, Achkhoi-Martan districts and the city of Grozny, | |spokesman for the federal forces|Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov told Itar-Tass. Some | |in the North Caucasus said on |houses are flooded in the village of Assinovskaya in the | |Wednesday. "Law enforcement |Sunzha district, where water has burst a concrete dam and the | |agencies are taking steps to |situation is difficult to control, he said. There are many oil| |search for and detain Mujahid |spots on the water of the Sunzha River, which is carrying away| |and Daudov and other members of |crude naturally coming to the surface in the Grozny area. | |their group," the spokesman |There is an environmental hazard to the Caspian Sea, where the| |said. Daudov, leader of the |Terek River flows. We cannot handle this situation | |Amanat Wahhabi group, is |independently, so we have asked the Russian Emergency | |suspected of involvement in the |Situations Ministry for help, Abramov said. Chechnya announced| |terrorist attack on the Dubrovka|a flood emergency on May 3. The government assigned 3.5 | |theater in Moscow in October |million rubles for the republican emergency situations | |2002 and raids on Ingushetia in |ministry, so that it would charter equipment and buy fuel and | |June 2004 and Grozny in August |lubricants for the flood period. We are working day and night | |2004. He is also accused of |in cooperation with the Russian Defense Ministry to ensure the| |playing a role in plotting last |security of citizens. We have prepared vehicles for the | |year's school siege in the North|evacuation of people from the flood zone. Some people, whose | |Ossetian town of Beslan. ([http:|homes are flooded, have been moved to the homes of their | |//www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?|relatives or temporary dwellings. They are being given aid, | |lng=eng] more...) |Abramov said. Weathermen predict more precipitation in the | | |mountains, and the critical situation in the republican rivers| | Chechen history |will reach its climax this night. | | |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Chechnya | Questions and answers|Chechnya...) | | | | |To Reader |11 May 2004 Suspected suicide bombing instructor detained in | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |Chechnya | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||A suspected female instructor who is believed to have trained | |traditions| music |female suicide bombers has been detained in Chechnya. | | |"Interior troops have detained an active member of illegal | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|armed groups in Urus-Martan on suspicion of training female | |a Russian territory which has |suicide bombers," spokesman for the federal forces in the | |witnessed the most tragic events|North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on | |over the past decade. The book |Sunday. An investigation has been launched to track down | |is the latest update on the |female suicide bombers she has trained, Shabalkin said. He | |Chechen Republic . And this is |said, a member of the illegal armed group controlled by | |very important, since a lack of |Saidullayev [Maskhadov's successor] has been detained in | |fresh and accurate information |Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district. The detainee is suspected| |about events in Chechnya |of carrying out a series of terrorist attacks and blowing up | |generates many distorted |motor vehicles in Grozny from 2001 to 2004, causing several | |conceptions and rumours - both |deaths, Shabalkin said. He said a female terrorist who planned| |within and outside Russia . For |to blow herself up near a group of policemen was detained in | |example, that Chechen society is|Staropromyslovsky district on May 6. When a car was stopped | |allegedly inherently alien to |for a check, a woman got out of the car and walked to the | |Russia , that pro-Russian |policemen. She disregarded the command to stop and warning | |elements in the republic are |shots, and was killed. Policemen found a bomb filled with | |marginalised; and lastly, that |explosives equivalent of 1.5 kilograms of TNT on her, | |Russian power structures are |Shabalkin said. The woman has not been identified yet, he | |fighting the Chechen people, |said. | |rather than armed bandit groups.|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |The reality, however, is that |Chechnya...) | |only with the return of the | | |legitimate authorities are | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |villages and towns being | | |restored, children going to | Russia - Chechnya | |school for the first time in | | |many years, and pensioners | Chechen culture | |receiving long-forgotten | | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |Literary Ties | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |Lermontovs museum in the Shelkovski region in Chechnya | |referendum on a new Chechen | | |constitution, and parliamentary |[5330] | |and presidential elections. |The fifth filial of Mikhail Y. Lermontov - the great Russian | |These votes will be held, |poets museum opened in an ancient house in the village of | |despite continued attempts by |Paraboch of the Shelkovki Region in Chechnya . The house is | |bandit groups and their leaders |nearly 250 years old and it belonged to a local landlord, | |to scupper the process of |retired general Akim Khastatov whose wife Yekaterina Stolypina| |normalisation in the republic, |was a distant relative to Lermontovs grandmother Yelizaveta | |the latest terrorist act being |Arsenyevna. The latter visited Khastatovs estate several | |the bombing of the republican |times. And she took along young Mikhail, whom she raised after| |government building. The war |his mothers death. In 1837 during his exile to the Caucasus, | |being waged by Chechen |Lermontov revisited the home of his relatives. In 1841, he | |separatists against federal |went there for the last time shortly before his death. The | |forces and more often than not |building has been well preserved. In 1990 restoration work was| |against their own co-citizens is|begun to make a museum of the great poet. But the events of | |by no means a "national |the past decade postponed all restoration work. Fortunately | |liberation struggle of the |the building wasnt damaged in the course of hostilities. But | |Chechen people", but an episode |it is in need of maintenance. The most important thing that | |in the overall offensive by |its internal architecture, the living room, window shutters | |international terrorism on the |and certain items that the poet may have touched, have all | |fundamental principles of modern|been preserved. In 2004 museum personnel was formed. Svetlana | |civilisation. The facts show |Temirbulatova a learned person and a known philologist in | |that being a part of the Russian|Chechnya was appointed the museums director. The employees | |Federation in no way threatens |will be allocated part of the museum as a working area. The | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|employees will engage in search of items and materials of | |identity, the free use of its |Lermontovs time and complete the museums exposition. As soon | |own language, and preaching |as the building is passed over into the Chechen Culture | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Ministry care, restoration and maintenance work will get | |during de facto "independence" |underway. Later on it will receive its first visitors. | |from Russia that the Chechen |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=cultureeng&lng=| |people suffered a humanitarian |eng] chechen culture ...) | |tragedy on an unprecedented | | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave| Chechen tarditions | |trade and plundering came to | | |form the economic basis of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |new regime, while chaos and war |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |became the form of its political|Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |Russia , geographically, |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |politically and |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |civilisation-wise. So a |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |hypothetical triumph of radical |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |Islamism on its territory would |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |be anti-historical. Such a |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |development would signify the |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |establishment in the midst of |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,|second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |with all ensuing consequences |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |for the international community.|code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |The corporate author - |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |journalists of the Russian |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |Information Agency Novosti - |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |have attempted to be as brief as|bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions | Chechen cuisine | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen |All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |issue. Hence the book's title: "|traditions| music | |Chechnya : Questions and |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Answers". It draws heavily on |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |information provided by various |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |Russian ministries and |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |departments that in one or |refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |another way are involved in |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |normalising life in the |eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |republic. |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |Russian Information Agency |And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |Novosti |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng|Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |=eng] in detail ...) |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | | |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | | Chechen economics. An |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | | Entrepreneurs Table Book |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | | Published in Chechnya |their own. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |[6332] An Entrpreneurs Table |eng] in detail ...) | |Book with a circulation of 5,000| | |copies has been released in the | - | |Chechen Republic. Its appearance| | |comes in the nick of time, as |## | |according to specialists, there | | |about 5,000 small businesses, | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |including farming collectives. | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |This sector of the economy | | |employes nearly 100,000 farmers.| | |Over the next five years the | | |Chechen leadership is targeting | | |to double the number of small | | |business and increase the number| | |of employees up to 250-300 | | |thousand people. The Republic | | |has set up a modern support | | |infrastructure for small | | |business and developed programs | | |of development and support of | | |small entrepreneurship. And the | | |most important thing is that | | |there are dynamic people, ready | | |to undertake small business. It | | |is precisely for those people | | |that An Entrepreneurs Table Book| | |has been released. Its compilers| | |include Shaarani Shuaipov | | |Committee Chairman on Small | | |Business and Entrepreneurship of| | |the Chechen government, and | | |Magomed Shovkhalov -- Fund | | |Director in support of small | | |entrepreneurship of the Chechen | | |Republic. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=eng§ion= | | |newineng&row=1] 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